We are striving to provide a community where people feel welcome, empowered, and free from obstacles that may limit their academic experience.聽
- Held a Graduate Student Forum, which was facilitated by the Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance (OIEC)聽聽
- Met with OIEC to discuss the forthcoming campus workplace climate survey and identify areas of improvement in the department聽聽聽
- Meeting with OIEC to discuss the Senior Exit Survey, with the long-term goal of supporting undergraduate sense of belonging
- Provided data driven feedback to facilitate subcommittee goals based on Forum responses
- In charge of Branding and Design for global committee and events
- Working to host multiple undergraduate focused community dinners to increase community engagement聽
- Marie Banich 聽
- Sona Dimidjian 聽
- Chloe Simard 聽
- Adam Taubert
- Emil Bansemer聽聽
- Analicia Howard 聽
- Luiza Rosa
- Brett King
- Dillon McGovern
- Cody Moxam
- Prakriti KC
- Ryan Bachtell聽
- Miriam Clayton
- Maya Carter
- Brett King聽
- Erik Knight聽
- Dillon McGovern聽
- Liliana Pickett聽
- Eva Pietri
We commit to anti-racism in our teaching, scientific work, and continued learning.
- Organized DEI speaker events for Spring 2022聽and Spring 2023
- Organized two DEI-related workshops with Patricia Gonzalez, Assistant Dean of Inclusive Practice, College of Arts and Sciences
- Developing a peer-to-peer mentorship program for undergraduate psychology and neuroscience majors with historically marginalized identities. The goal of this program is to provide first-year students personal connections with upperclassmen during the early transition period to college, when students are most vulnerable and have little established community, in order to improve outcomes in the domains of belongingness, retention, academics, and involvement in the university community.
- Held focus groups to understand psychology and neuroscience majors mentorship needs
- Erik Knight 聽
- Brett King 聽
- Matt Puretz 聽
- Alyin Monarrezo
- Bryce Throneberry 聽
- Shakthi Ganesh Pandian 聽
- Sheba Aikawa聽聽
- Erik Knight聽
- Matt Puretz聽
- Shiva Pandian聽
- Alyin Monarrez聽
- Ryan Bachtell聽
- Miriam Clayton
- Maya Carter
- Brett King聽
- Erik Knight聽
- Dillon McGovern聽
- Liliana Pickett聽
- Eva Pietri
We are committed to broadening our departmental representation.
- Review and provide graduate application fee waivers to increase the number applications from historically excluded groups聽聽
- Provide聽Diversity Fellowships to incoming graduate students from historically excluded groups聽
- Working to establish a undergraduate research portal for connecting students with laboratory opportunities
- Create a department fund for supporting graduate student-initiated DEI efforts
- Michael Baratta聽聽
- Amelia Dana Moser聽聽
- Lucy Figueroa 聽
- Sophia Niehaus
- Emily Brown
- Michael Baratta聽
- Amelia Dana Moser聽
- Lucy Figueroa聽
- Ruby Chong聽
- Michael Baratta聽
- Chloe Bowden聽
- McKell Carter聽
- Amelia Dana Moser聽
- Emma Shelby聽
We have a critical responsibility as educators to provide a learning environment that is welcoming and inclusive to all students seeking academic advancement.
- Developed an undergraduate resource page on Canvas to improve student access to a range of information to improve their academic experience聽聽
- Identified a Canvas Designer, video editor, and students for videos for development of Undergraduate Canvas resource site.聽聽聽
- Developed an extensive and detailed set of materials aimed at helping students navigate learning in the classroom, career planning, and learn from peer leaders鈥� experiences.
- All psychology and neuroscience majors are now enrolled on the Canvas page.
- Robert Spencer 聽
- Brynn Paulsen 聽
- Maya Hassan
- Kylie Sambirsky
- Nadia Floyd
- Robert Spencer聽
- Brynn Paulsen聽
- Benjamin O鈥橫eara聽
- Maya Hassan聽
- Sid Pennello聽
- Adela Aguirre聽
- Rosi Kaiser聽
- Benjamin O鈥橫eara聽
- Tina Pittman聽Wagers聽
- Balbir Singh聽
- Robert Spencer聽