News and Press
HelpPosted: May 19 2022
Our paper on focus groups conducted at STEM professional society meetings was published today in PLOS ONE.
Posted: May 16 2022
Our paper "A Critical Feminist Approach from the Geosciences to Transform Workplace Climate in Partnership with Professional Associations" is now out in a special issue of the ADVANCE Journal.
Posted: May 11 2022
Congratulations to our co-PI Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe who today was confirmed by Senate to lead the Science Office of the Department of Energy. Dr. Berhe was nominated in recognition of her cutting-edge carbon cycle science and her leadership in advancing equity in STEM.
Posted: May 9 2022
Our manuscript "Maybe this is just not the place for me:" An intersectional analysis of gender harassment and discrimination in the geosciences" has been accepted in PLOS ONE!
Posted: Apr 11 2022
ADVANCEGeo PI quoted in news article about American Meteorological Society's code of ethics, applied to revoke a member's Fellow status and membership after a violation.
Posted: Mar 10 2022
Associate Professor Rebecca Barnes co-authored a perspectives piece in Nature Geoscience highlighting the systems of oppression inherent within STEMM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine) for historically excluded groups. The article, "Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course," reframes the discussion of diversity in STEM from one that is passive (i.e., a "leaky pipeline") to that of a hostile obstacle course, exploring the causes and consequences of underrepresented scholars.
Posted: Feb 22 2022
The ADVANCEGeo Partnership has launched a new site with resources to understand the history of racism in U.S. higher education and in science as well as strategies to promote anti-racist practices in the geosciences and other STEM disciplines.
Posted: Feb 22 2022
Researchers Say Science Skewed by Racism is Increasing the Threat of Global Warming to People of Color
Posted: Feb 15 2022
Our paper in Nature Geoscience 'Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course' led by Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is featured in the Springer Nature editor curated Black Lives Matter campaign hub. The paper is listed under the Article section of "Social Inequality & Systemic Racism" and will be free to read until February 2023. Can also be accessed through the follow link: http://rdcu.be/cDLVf
Posted: Jan 31 2022
Join us for a free webinar with the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) where we will present findings from our climate survey of the geosciences.
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