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This is a guest post by 2021 DEI Biocollections Summer Scholars Program alum, Marcus Reid.

This is a guest post by 2021 DEI Biocollections Summer Scholars Program alum, Mary Haddad.

Botany week, where do I even start? I had trouble getting started on this post for a while, wondering how exactly to describe the biocollections experiences I’d had at Alameda. Do I talk about mounting, or specimen collecting or even the intricate organizational structure of the collections?

This is a guest post by 2021 DEI Biocollections Summer Scholars Program alum, Faith Cisneros.

This is a guest post by 2021 DEI Biocollections Summer Scholars Program alum, Savage Cree Hess.

Behind most modern science, there's at least a touch of coding.

For bioinformatics week, we the DEI Scholars plunged into the fundamentals of programming, poked around with databases, and crafted a personal bio. 

The original aim of the ASU Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Biocollections Scholars Program was to foster human-nature connections and provide hands-on biocollections experience for undergraduates from groups historically excluded from STEM fields. By these measures, the first year of the program was an immense success.

The 2021 scholar cohort

A unique, funded, and hands-on opportunity for students underrepresented in biodiversity science to participate in natural history collections research

The Biocollections Scholars Program will help you:

Take the next step in building connections to nature