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.
In this meeting, we will discuss the article "Race, Disability and the School-to-Prison Pipeline". 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 "Race, Disability and the School-to-Prison Pipeline". 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 "Graduate Students of Color: Race, Racism, and Mentoring in the White Waters of Academia". Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website's
In this meeting, we will discuss the article "Graduate Students of Color: Race, Racism, and Mentoring in the White Waters of Academia". Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website's
For this meeting we will be discussing the article "Exaggerating Harmful Drug Effects on the Brain is Killing Black People". Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website's readin
For this meeting we will be discussing the article "Exaggerating Harmful Drug Effects on the Brain is Killing Black People". Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website's readin
For the first installment of the SOMA reading group, we will be discussing the article "Don't Talk about Implicit Bias Without Talking about Structural Racism". Guiding questions and a link to the article can be found on our website's reading group page.
This Summit was completely virtual - "Addressing the Leaky Pipeline in Academia in the Context of COVID-19". We featured two keynote speakers from UC Davis, Dr. Susan Keen and Dr. Devin Horton. The talks were followed with small breakout groups to discuss actionable ideas to dismantle institutional racism within academia.
Dr. Yi Zuo is an Associate Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology at UC Santa Cruz. Her lab focuses on experience-dependent plasticity using in vivo spine and calcium imaging in awake, behaving animals.
This year's Summit featured three incredible keynote speakers - Raquel Aldana, Dr. Rebecca Calisi and Dr. Lizeth Perez. We also featured a panel focused on "Women in STEM" lead by outstanding female faculty.
Dr. Steve Ramirez is an Assistant Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Boston University. His work focuses on memory storage, consolidation and retrieval - infamously, he implanted a false memory into a mouse.
Our first Annual SOMA Summit featured keynote talks from Dr. Ed Callahan, PhD, Associate Dean for Academic Personnel at the School of Medicine and Dr. Kellie Butler, PhD, the Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies.
Dr. Saul Villeda is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anatomy at UCSF. His work investigates the aging processes, how that makes us susceptible to various pathological states, and how this can be mitigated.
Dr. Jennifer Kubota directs the Impression Formation Social Neuroscience Lab at the University of Chicago, where she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and in the Center for the Study Of Race, Politics, and Culture.
