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Lab committment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
The Evans Lab is committed to fostering a diverse and positive lab climate. To this end, we aim to 1) provide a safe, equitable, and inclusive environment through deliberate actions, 2) to celebrate our differences and use them better our science and 3) respect individual needs, styles, and career goals and mentor accordingly 4) find areas to go above and beyond status quo to broaden representation in STEM, correcting historical opportunity imbalances and improving science.
Resources
About to search for a grad/postdoc/undergrad/tech? Start here!: Reaching broader audiences for STEM recruitment
Resources from MSU:
Policies on Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct
College of Natural Sciences Council on Diversity and Community
MSU NatSci Diversity Website (being developed!)
Non-MSU:
What you can do to be an ally:
Recommendations for writing a Diversity Statement
Recent Evans Lab DEI Activities
Note these efforts are mostly by my awesome lab members!
The Evans Lab is committed to fostering a diverse and positive lab climate. To this end, we aim to 1) provide a safe, equitable, and inclusive environment through deliberate actions, 2) to celebrate our differences and use them better our science and 3) respect individual needs, styles, and career goals and mentor accordingly 4) find areas to go above and beyond status quo to broaden representation in STEM, correcting historical opportunity imbalances and improving science.
Resources
About to search for a grad/postdoc/undergrad/tech? Start here!: Reaching broader audiences for STEM recruitment
Resources from MSU:
Policies on Relationship Violence and Sexual Misconduct
College of Natural Sciences Council on Diversity and Community
MSU NatSci Diversity Website (being developed!)
Non-MSU:
What you can do to be an ally:
Recommendations for writing a Diversity Statement
Recent Evans Lab DEI Activities
Note these efforts are mostly by my awesome lab members!
- April 2019: Robert presents a brown bag seminar on research seminar question participation: Look who's talking now! Two years of observational data reveal striking gender and power disparities in who asks questions at KBS seminars
- Jan. 2019: Sarah serves as a representative at MSU College of Natural Sciences all-day Cultural Competency Training workshop
- Jan. 2019: Robert took it upon himself to log stats from Q&A sessions at a conference and published the results.
- Dec. 2018: Sarah launches a “reaching broader audiences” guide for recruiting more diverse postdocs, grads, and undergraduates. The guide will continue to be updated as we gather more resources.
- Nov 2018: The KBS Climate Survey is launched! Corinn Rutkoski played a large part in developing this survey (in addition to the CiC committee)
- Nov 2018: Evans lab helps plan and participates in the first inclusive science series at KBS. This includes visits from Deborah Goldberg, Checo Colón-Gaud, and James Nieh, and a workshop “Supporting People of Color in Ecology and Evolution”.
- July 2018: Robert and others are awarded a grant (“Advancing inclusion in science through cultural competency training and collaborative workshops with national STEM diversity leaders”) from the Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Initiatives at Michigan State.
- May 2018: the Evans Lab all help plan, and all participate in a half-day of Facilitated discussion on KBS Climate
- Jan 2018: Sarah and Robert are among the first members of the KBS’s Culture and Inclusion Committee (CiC).
