Reflection on the DEI Scholars Program by Marcus Reid
This is a guest post by 2021 DEI Biocollections Summer Scholars Program alum, Marcus Reid.
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DEI Scholars Botany Week by Mary Haddad
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?
Not So Creepy Crawlers by Faith Cisneros
This is a guest post by 2021 DEI Biocollections Summer Scholars Program alum, Faith Cisneros.
DEI Scholars Bioinformatics Week by Savage Cree Hess
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.
2021 DEI Scholars Program Wrap-Up
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