Seminar Outreach for Minority Advocacy

We were excited to welcome Dr. Tamara Franklin of Dalhousie University to our first Series talk for the 2021-22 year. She talked about her personal journey in academia, as well as her research studying neuropsychiatric disorders.

This week's session will discuss two articles (article one and two) exploring the case of Henrietta Lacks.

This week we will discuss the paper entitled, "The importance of diversity in cognitive neuroscience", by Vonetta Dotson and Audrey Duarte (2020). Guiding questions and a link to the article

In this session we will discuss the first episode of the video series, 'Race - The Power of an Illusion'. Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website's 

For this session, we will discuss the article "Systemic inequalities for LGBTQ professionals in STEM" an article recently published in Science. Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website

For this session, we will discuss the article from Psychology Today, titled "Why Do People Fall for Fake Science News?". Guiding questions and a link to the article c

In this meeting, we will discuss the article "This Is the Casual Racism that I Face at My Elite High School" which was recently published in the New York Times.

Dr. Julio Martinez-Trujillo is Professor in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Western University. He also holds a Provincially Endowed Academic Chair in Autism and is a scientist at the Robarts Research Institute.

For this session, we will discuss the article "Why Socialism?" by Albert Einstein, dating back to 1949 in the first edition of Monthly Review. Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website's

For this session, we will discuss the article "Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom" by John McWhorter, recently published in the The

In this meeting, we will discuss the article "NINDS Strategies for Enhancing the Diversity of Neuroscience Researchers". Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website's reading group page.

In this meeting, we will discuss the article "We Aren't the World". Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website's reading group page.

In this meeting, we will discuss the article "We Aren't the World". Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website's reading group page.

In this meeting, we will discuss the article "The Costs of Code-Switching". Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website's reading group page.