2022
BNS Program Newsletter
DEI&B
In the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience Program, we acknowledge the historical and systemic inequities that exist within our department, the field, academia, and society at large. We strive to collaboratively construct an inviting, respectful, safe, and inclusive learning community for students, faculty, and staff. We seek to develop skills to disrupt past and current injustices through our teaching, research, service, and interpersonal interactions. We encourage faculty, staff and students to engage in innovative, ethical, anti-racist scholarship and education towards the mission of creating a more socially just world.
Next steps this year, the Behavioral Neuroscience Program is actively working on updating our current student learning objectives in the major with a focus on DEIB.
Dr. Jackie Rose has recently participated on multiple published collaborations focusing on DEI&B in academia.
- The A4BL Anti-racist Tenure Letter Working Group (2022) Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: A guide for writing anti-racist tenure and promotion letters eLife 11:e79892, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.79892
- †Bayline, R. J., Morrison, M.E., Illig, K.R., Martinez-Acosta, V.G., Becker, L.A., Favero, C. B., McFarlane, H.G., Chase, L.A., Banks, S.M.L., Griffin, G.D., Robinsons, S., Rose, J.K., Basu, A.C. & Chan, J. P. (2020) Faculty for Undergraduate (FUN) Statement on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, Spring 18(2):E4 – E5.
Summer Research Awards
Laboratory experience is a game-changer for our student’s ability to get into medical or graduate programs, and land research jobs. Whenever possible, the recipients would demonstrate financial need, interest pursuing a graduate or health professional degree, and be from an underrepresented group ( e.g. racial or ethnic minorities, students with disabilities, from low-income households and first-generation college students, LGBTQ+ individuals).