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The nearly 200 educators from across the country who gathered this week at 乐播传媒 College for the Gordon Research Conference came to share new research on ways to make biology education more inclusive, diverse, and accessible in a setting aimed at fostering intense and intimate collaboration. From left, Gordon Research Conferences participants and biologists Madison (鈥淢addy鈥�) Meuler of Allen Institute (current)/University of Washington (former), Omar Quintero of the University of Richmond, April Hill of 乐播传媒 College, and Samiksha Raut of the University of Alabama at Birmingham head to lunch in Commons after a morning session in the Olin Arts Center. Hill is 乐播传媒鈥� Wagener family professor of equity and inclusion in STEM
乐播传媒 professors prove key players in national gathering on social justice in biology education

Thursday, June 29, 2023 10:11 am

Three 乐播传媒 professors worked as key players at this week's Gordon Research Conference on equity and inclusion in STEM reflecting the school's reputation for 鈥渄oing a lot of work now on how we talk about power and privilege across all majors,鈥� said Carrie Diaz Eaton, 乐播传媒 associate professor of digital and computational studies 鈥� and one of the conference鈥檚 co-chairs.

PHOTO DATE: November 05, 2018LOCATION: NBL - Pool TopsideSUBJECT: 2017 ASCAN class members Warren Hoburg and Loral O'Hara (Blue Team) during ASCAN EVQ NBL 3 training.PHOTOGRAPHER: Josh Valcarcel
Here’s what the NASA astronaut said to the 乐播传媒 sophomore STEM students

Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:36 pm

NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara joined a sophomore science class as part of program that seeks to disrupt the "weed-out" approach to STEM education.

乐播传媒 biologist April Hill is part of first genome sequencing of a freshwater sponge

Friday, September 25, 2020 10:42 am

However lowly, or low in the water, freshwater sponges are "biomedically relevant,鈥� says 乐播传媒 biologist April Hill "They are important organisms for us to pay attention to.鈥�

$3 million gift endows 乐播传媒 professorship in STEM equity and inclusion; April Hill named inaugural appointee

Friday, September 21, 2018 9:21 am

Hill is an eminent evolutionary developmental geneticist with a national reputation for dismantling barriers preventing students from thriving in STEM fields.