{"id":6565,"date":"2020-09-15T13:18:35","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=6565"},"modified":"2020-09-15T13:18:35","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T20:18:35","slug":"equity-diversity-and-inclusion-edi-in-stem-a-conversation-sept-21st-3pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-6565","title":{"rendered":"Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in STEM: A Conversation | Sept 21st @ 3pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for <strong>Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in STEM: A Conversation<\/strong>, brought to you by UBC Centre for Blood Research, Chemists for Diversity and Inclusion UBC, and UBC Let\u2019s Talk Science. Panel speakers will discuss the screening of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pictureascientist.com\/\">Picture a Scientist<\/a>\u201d (though you <strong>do not<\/strong> need to have watched the film to be a part of the discussion) and share their insight on how to cultivate EDI in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: Monday, September 21, 2020 | 3-4 pm PT | Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please arrive early as we will begin at 3 pm promptly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Register here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyurl.com\/ubcediinstem\">www.tinyurl.com\/ubcediinstem<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Panel speakers (see attached biographies of the speakers):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Anka Lekhi, Assistant Professor of Teaching, UBC Department of Chemistry and Vantage College<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Jennifer Rowland, AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, US Department of Agriculture<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Karen Cheung, Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Electrical &amp; Computer Engineering; Associate Director of the School of Biomedical Engineering, and Director of the Graduate Program; Member, UBC Centre for Blood Research<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Marie-Soleil<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Community Events Coordinator<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:community@ublts.com\">community@ubclts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubclts.com\">www.ubclts.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Twitter: @ubclts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join us for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in STEM: A Conversation, brought to you by UBC Centre for Blood Research, Chemists for Diversity and Inclusion UBC, and UBC Let\u2019s Talk Science. Panel speakers will discuss the screening of \u201cPicture a Scientist\u201d (though you do not need to have watched the film to be a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6566,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6565\/revisions\/6566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}