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Initiatives for Building Inclusive and
Diverse Communities

Our lab is deeply committed to fighting systemic injustice and biases against race, ethnicity, gender identity or expression, religion, and experience in our laboratory, department, institution, social community, and community at large.

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Science as an institution was founded on structural and institutional racism, inequality, and exploitation, some of which still persists today. We passionately believe that diversity, inclusion, and equity in the workplace and community at large stimulates creativity, innovation, engagement, and success.

We pledge be anti-racist, anti-sexist, and pro-LGBTQ+, and anti-discrimination. We will do so by actively standing up against forms of injustice and intolerance including, but not limited to, statements and acts of overt racism, sexism, and other prejudices; language and action rooted in innate biases; and suggestions of othering, tone-policing, reverse racism or sexism, discursive racism or sexism, and privilege.

 

We pledge to continue educating our social and workplace communities on the crucial need to acknowledge and understand the difference between ideals or goals for a more just society and the actions that lead to true inclusion and respect for diversity. 

 

We will continue to devote ourselves to identifying and executing structural and institutional solutions that will provide equal access to tools and opportunities for people of all races, genders, religion, and experiences. 

 

We will remain humbly committed to increasing our tolerance for feedback by not being afraid to ask questions or to receive feedback, by evaluating our reactions to feedback, and by accepting the discomfort of giving and receiving "call outs" for the benefit of learning.

To  promote equality, equity and justice, we commit to the following initiatives and programs:

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Writer's pictureTracy Larson
Jan 30, 20201 min read

Cell Biology Art Display in Physical Life Science Building

Updated: Aug 13, 2021

Dr. Sarah Siegrist and Tracy designed and constructed a public display of professionally aluminum-printed placards that highlight our groups’ research organisms and fields of enquiry with stunning cellular and organismal images. Our new art display features images

of field work from the Larson Lab, developmental models from the Keller Lab, novel glia from the Kucenas lab, C. elegans development from the Pani Lab, pigment cells and scales from the Parichy Lab, transgenic Xenopus from the Grainger Lab, and neurogenesis in Drosophila from the Siegrist Lab.

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