Join Dean Kyle Squires and the Inclusive Excellence Faculty Advisory Council (IFAC) at the Mosaic Forum, which celebrates the Mosaic Award nominees and honors this year’s recipients: Sarah Stabenfeldt (SBHSE) and Steven Osburn (ASA).
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Inclusive excellence
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Share with your students: Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 17
Join ASU’s Inclusive Community of Practice, The Collab, a partnership between faculty and student groups and associations, as they kick off one of many cultural celebrations at Celebrando Comunidad, a day of events celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.
Introducing Rainbow Connections, an LGBTQ+ mentorship program, Sept. 4 and 11
The Rainbow Coalition, ASU’s umbrella coalition for LGBTQ+ student communities, and the LGBTQ+ Faculty and Staff Association is excited to announce the launch of Rainbow Connections, an LGBTQ+ student and staff/faculty member mentorship program. This year, the program is recruiting mentors who are passionate about supporting LGBTQ+ communities who are either staff or faculty members at the institution.
Attend an M360 faculty workshop: Tools to Support Effective Mentorship, Sept. 30
At this Mentorship 360 workshop, you will learn about and practice using evidence-based tools — derived from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 2019 report on the Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM — that support effective mentorship practices you can employ with students at all levels and postdoctoral scholars.
Exchange students hosted by ASU to support Egypt in its energy transition goals
Arizona State University is hosting 17 students from Egypt through the Center of Excellence for Energy. Funded with the support of the American people through the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, the center aims to support Egypt in reaching its target of 42% renewable energy by 2035.
Kenan Song earns ASU Women and Philanthropy Grant
Engineering Assistant Professor Kenan Song was awarded a $50,000 ASU Women and Philanthropy grant for a new project to design and manufacture biodegradable tissue scaffolds to cure pelvic organ prolapse in women. Song and his students in the Advanced Materials Advanced Manufacturing Laboratory, or AMAML, will work with physicians at Mayo Clinic to conduct this research with the overall goal of ensuring…
New ASU researcher supporting minority group success in engineering doctoral programs
According to the National Academies, only one in seven doctorates in engineering are obtained by underrepresented groups including African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans. Research shows that several factors contribute to this disparity, but there haven’t been adequate resources available to support systemic change within academic institutions. Now, a new National Science Foundation grant will help uncover how…
Diversity and Inclusion Initiative seed funding program awardees selected
The Diversity and Inclusion Initiative (DII@FSE) Task Force selected five awardees to receive funding under the DII@FSE Seed Funding Program.
Fulton Schools Diversity and Inclusion Initiative earns ASEE Diversity Recognition Program Award
Last year, in January 2019, the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering launched a new initiative focusing on diversity and inclusion — DII@FSE — intended to dedicate focus to a topic that is a core value to the Fulton Schools and ASU as exemplified in the university charter. As part of the launch, a task force of…