{"id":10906,"date":"2021-06-11T09:38:58","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T13:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?page_id=10906"},"modified":"2026-03-02T14:39:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T19:39:41","slug":"commitment-to-equity-diversity-and-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/commitment-to-equity-diversity-and-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-max  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n        \n                    \n                    \n            \n    <div class=\"cu-wideimage relative flex items-center justify-center mx-auto px-8 overflow-hidden md:px-16 rounded-xl not-prose  my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 bg-opacity-50 bg-cover bg-cu-black-50 py-24 md:py-28 lg:py-36 xl:py-48\" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/edi-2-768x336.jpg); background-position: 50% 50%;\">\n\n                    <div class=\"absolute top-0 w-full h-screen\" style=\"background-color:rgba(0,0,0,0.600);\"><\/div>\n        \n        <div class=\"relative z-[2] max-w-4xl w-full flex flex-col items-center gap-2 cu-wideimage-image cu-zero-first-last\">\n            <header class=\"mx-auto mb-6 text-center text-white cu-pageheader cu-component-updated cu-pageheader--center md:mb-12\">\n\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold mb-2 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] cu-pageheader--center text-center mx-auto after:left-px\">\n                        Our Commitment to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                            <\/header>\n        <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    \n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Faculty and staff in the Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry&nbsp;are committed to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in our programs.&nbsp;We recognize and celebrate the diversity and lived experiences of our students.&nbsp;We aspire for our classrooms and research groups to be supportive and affirming spaces for all people regardless of their race, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, culture, religion, and socioeconomic status.&nbsp;We are committed to listening and learning how to best support our diverse student population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"current-members-of-the-biology-edi-committee\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Current members of the Biology EDI committee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/root-gorelick\/\">Root Gorelick<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/lenore-fahrig\/\">Lenore Fahrig<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/eugene-fletcher\/\">Eugene Fletcher<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"faculty-of-science-edi-committee\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Faculty of Science EDI Committee<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry are also represented on the Faculty of Science EDI committee, which has organized an engaging new event series that aims to increase Awareness, Collaboration and Engagement (ACE), and advance Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) efforts in the Faculty of Science. Please check out upcoming and previous online <a href=\"https:\/\/science.carleton.ca\/about\/edi\/\">ACE EDI events<\/a> and plan to join us at the next one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faculty EDI Representative: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/jenny-bruin\/\">Jenny Bruin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 id=\"ongoing-initiatives-in-the-department-of-biology\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ongoing initiatives in the Department of Biology<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 id=\"carleton-biology-lab-renamed-and-scholarship-established-in-honour-of-henrietta-lacks\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">杏吧原创 Biology Lab Renamed and Scholarship Established in Honour of Henrietta Lacks<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>This initiative to honour Henrietta Lacks was created by 杏吧原创 HeLa, a team of 杏吧原创 students led by Nadeea Rahim. The initiative includes the establishment of a scholarship, installation of a plaque, and renaming of an undergraduate teaching laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurefunder.carleton.ca\/giving-fund\/henrietta-lacks-scholarship-in-biology\/\">Henrietta Lacks Scholarship in Biology | 杏吧原创 FutureFunder<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the 杏吧原创 HeLa initiative for more information: <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/carletonhela\">https:\/\/linktr.ee\/carletonhela<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"biology-edi-journal-club\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Biology EDI Journal Club<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><u>November 2021:<\/u> Hughes BE. Coming out in STEM: Factors affecting retention of sexual minority STEM students. <em>Science Advances, <\/em>4: eaao6373 (2018).<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aao6373\">https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/sciadv.aao6373<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><u>May 2021<\/u>: Asai DJ. Race Matters. <em>Cell, <\/em>181 (2020).<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2020.03.044\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cell.2020.03.044<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">April 2021:<\/span> Claude M Steele. Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do (Chapter 5: The Many Experiences of Stereotype Threat).<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/claudesteele.com\/book\/\">https:\/\/claudesteele.com\/book\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"2021-2022-edi-research-project\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">2021-2022 EDI Research Project<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>With funding support from <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/discoverycentre\/funding-opportunities\/icureus\/\">I-CUREUS<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/science.carleton.ca\/about\/edi\/\">Faculty of Science<\/a>, the Biology EDI committee has established an undergraduate research internship to conduct an EDI-related research project. Tara Thachet, a fourth year undergraduate student in Neuroscience at 杏吧原创, is leading a research project to survey students in the Faculty of Science regarding aspects of their identity and survey faculty about their perceptions of student identity. The goal is to reveal the ways in which faculty perceive, or misperceive, who their students are. The results from this project will lead to greater understanding of 杏吧原创 science student identity and will lead to ways that the faculty of science can improve access and lower barriers to historically underrepresented groups (BIPOC, LGBTQ+, women) in science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We will continue to update this page with new initiatives and actions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty and staff in the Department of Biology and Institute of Biochemistry&nbsp;are committed to promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in our programs.&nbsp;We recognize and celebrate the diversity and lived experiences of our students.&nbsp;We aspire for our classrooms and research groups to be supportive and affirming spaces for all people regardless of their race, gender, gender [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-10906","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10906"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18296,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10906\/revisions\/18296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=10906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}