The Faculty Research Education Development (FRED) Mentoring Program is designed to promote grant funding success for junior faculty at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and other institutions with a strong commitment to recruiting students from backgrounds underrepresented in STEM to the field of cell biology. Read more here.


The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Feedback Loop Blog shared thoughts on what who is in the majority or in a position of power can do to help break the cycles of racial disparities that are woven into the fabric of the biomedical research enterprise and that limit opportunities for Black scientists. Find out here.

Articles and input by scientists:

The journal Molecular Biology of the Cell published in the Perspectives section a paper entitled "Strategies to improve equity in faculty hiring".

Marco Lindsey, Associate Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Haas School of Business in this piece, published on the UC Berkeley Blog, speaks about his thoughts on the current climate for Blacks in the professional world. 

Dr. Beronda Montgomery (Michigan State University) shares advice about being a supportive and effective mentor for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students.

Melisé Edwards (neuroscience graduate student at University of Massachusetts at Amherst) wrote a reflection piece about the invisible labor of underrepresented minority (URM) students.

Dr. Kenny Gibbs (NIGMS) writes about why diversity in science matters. Read more here.

In this article Jasmine Roberts (lecturer at the Ohio University) provides sound advice to support Black academics. 

Dr. David Asai (HHMI) published this commentary in Cell: Race Matters.

Read this Opinion piece by Haacker, Jack-Scott & Morrison (Royal Society of Chemistry): Why diversity and inclusion at conferences matter.

Dr. Daniel Colón Ramos (Yale University) and Dr. Alfedo Quiñones Hinojosa (Mayo Clinic) talk about racism in the lab in the New York Times. Read the article here.

Find out these two articles written by Black women sharing their experiences with racism and burn out in Medicine: Dr. LaShyra “Lash” Nolen (2020) for the HufPost and Dr. Uché Blackstock (2020) for Stat.

Essayist Brandon Taylor shares his experiences in academia, and how they made him leave to pursue a career as a writer in this article and also in this interview with NPR. 

Watch this video of Dr. Manu Platt (Georgia Tech and Emory U) delivering a powerful speech at 2017 BMES Diversity Award Lecture.

Editorials by major scientific journals published recently

Nature: Systemic Racism: Science must listen, learn and change 

Science: Time to look in the mirror 

Cell: Science has a racism problem

Podcasts

NPR - Code switch

Intersectionality matters

Race forward

Research papers:

Hofstra et al., 2020 PNAS. The diversity Paradox

Gibbs et al., 2016 eLife. Decoupling of the minority PhD talent pool and assistant professor hiring in medical school basic science departments in the US

Gibbs & Griffin. 2013. CBE Life Science Education. What Do I Want to Be With My PhD? The Roles of Personal Values and Structural Dynamics in Shaping the Career Interests of Recent Biomedical Science PhD Graduates

Hopp (2017). ASBMB. Solving the faculty diversity problem

Libraries with resources to combat structural racism

500 Women Scientists

Aspen Institute

Library of resources created by one of our students. 




This last article written by President Obama provides context to make this movement a turning point for real change.