Uplift Working Group: Fostering Inclusion in the Geosciences
Our Uplift Working Group
Katie Potter: katie.potter@usu.edu
Evey Gannaway Dalton: evey.gannawaydalton@usu.edu
Ollie Laub: ollie.laub@usu.edu
Whitney Greaves: whitney.greaves@usu.edu
2021 Department Climate and Demographics Data
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URGE Participation
- Our Pod Website
- URGE Refinement Website
- URGE Refinement Pod Members:
- Coleman Hiett: coleman.hiett@usu.edu
- Michaela Shallue: michaela.shallue@usu.edu
- Kitri Spencer: kitri.spencer@usu.edu
- Ema Armstrong: ema.armstrong@usu.edu
Campus and Community Resources
- What are Pronouns? Why Do They Matter?
- USU Inclusion Center
- Inclusion Center Events
- Report Discrimination or Harassment
- USU Black Student Union
- USU Native American Student Council
- USU Latinx Cultural Center
- USU Queer Student Alliance
- Logan Pride Center
- Black Lives Matter Utah
- Cache Refugee and Immigrant Connection
Geo Scholarship and Research Opportunities
- USU Inclusion Center Scholarships
- Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for new immigrants to the United States to pursue graduate education
- Point Foundation The National LGBTQ Scholarship Fund
- Association for Women Geoscientists Opportunities
- American Geosciences Institute - Harriet Evelyn Wallace Scholarship
- Patsy Takemoto Mink Education Support
- Claire Booth Luce Program
- GEM Fellowship Program
- GSSI Student Grant
Suggested Readings
- Bernard and Cooperdock, 2018, 'No progress on diversity in 40 years', Nature Geoscience
- Dutt, 2019, 'Race and racism in the geosciences', Nature Geoscience
- Cooperdock et al., 2021, 'Counteracting Systemic Bias in the Lab, Field, and Classroom', AGU Advances
- Cooke et al., 2021, 'First-year graduate courses foster inclusion', Nature Geoscience
- Anadu et al., 2020, 'Ten Steps to Protect BIPOC Scholars in the Field', EOS
- Jones, 2021, 'We need accomplices, not allies in the fight for an equitable geoscience', AGU Advances
- Martinez-Cola, 2020, 'Collectors, Nightlights, and Allies, Oh My: White Mentors in the Academy', Understanding and Dismantling Privilege,
- DEI in Geoscience Reading List (University of Texas at Austin Jackson School of Geosciences)
- Geology and Colonialism Reading List (Bryn Mawr College)