Title IX literally changed the face of higher education. It remediated the exclusion of education from the earlier Civil Rights Act and made sex discrimination in education illegal. For many of women, affirmative action got our foot in the door, and Title IX allowed us to stay by giving us recourse when we faced harassment […]
Microaggresisons, session 2 on the campus of Duke University. Contact Dr. Karis Boyd-Sinkler if you are interested in attending.
Mandatory training for all members of PreMiEr. See you email for the webinar link. About REI Groundwater training (from: https://racialequityinstitute.org/groundwater-approach/) The Groundwater metaphor is designed to help practitioners at all levels internalize the reality that we live in a racially structured society, and that that is what causes racial inequity. The metaphor is based on […]
A meeting of the PreMiEr Scholars Leadership Council. All students, post-docs, and research staff associated with PreMiEr are invited to attend. Please check your email for the Zoom link.
UNC Chapel Hill researcher Dr. Joe Brown leads a discussion of the paper "Reporting individual results for biomonitoring and environmental exposures: lessons learned from environmental communication case studies". Open to PreMiEr faculty and scholars. Contact Sharon Stauffer to for a calendar invitation, or just show up! Please see your emails or newsletter for the zoom […]
Dr. Joseph Graves Jr., PreMiEr Associate Director at N.C. A&T, leads a discussion on the topic of Race as a "ghost" variable in microbiome research. The publication to be discussed will be Chasing Ghosts: Race, Racism, and the Future of Microbiome Research. Additional reading: The Misguided History of Racial Medicine. Open to PreMiEr faculty and […]
The next meeting of the PreMiEr SLC will be on Friday, the 24th of March, at 4pm, by zoom (please check your email or the weekly newsletter for the link). These meetings are not strictly required (except for leaders), but attending is highly encouraged for all members.
Introductory session for PreMiEr scholars (undergraduates, graduate students, post-docs, research staff, and lab managers) to learn how to use discord for intra-ERC communications. See your emails from SLC Chair Ivory Blakley for Zoom link.
Scholars are invited to a virtual training session with Dr. Eric Monson, Data Visualization Analyst from Duke University Libraries, to learn best practices for the creation of posters, figures, and the presentation of data. This experience is Part 1 of 2, the second of which will offer critiques of posters to be presented at the […]
Topic: Race as a "ghost" variable in microbiome research - continued Facilitator: Andrew Hardwick, Graduate Student Research Assistant for PreMiEr SEI Core. In addition, Andrew is a PhD student in Public Administration, a Research Assistant at the Genetic Engineering and Society (GES) Center at NC State and a Fellow in Cohort 2 of the AgBioFEWS graduate training program. Summary: In […]
Meeting for scholars associated with PreMiEr, including undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, research staff, and lab managers. ERC-funded scholars and SLC leadership are required to attend. Other PreMiEr-associated scholars are welcome to attend. Please see your email invitation from the SLC Chair, Ivory Blakley, for the Zoom link.
Please join us on April 27, 12-1 PM on zoom for a conversation on the new AAAS documentary entitled “Science as Mastery: A Story about Race and Power”. The documentary has a duration of ~30 minutes so we will watch the documentary together and then Joe and Karis will lead a discussion in the remaining […]