All Events

Safe Zone: Practice of Allyship – Trends and LGBTQ+A

Safe Zone: Practice of Allyship is a series of three workshops for any of the UCI community to join. Help create practice of allyship for the LGBTQ+ Community and gather all educational material and resources offered throughout this workshop series. The workshop taking place on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 focuses on the current trends in...

UCI CARE Faculty and Staff Summer Series: Fostering Inclusion to Prevent Harm

Zoom

Inclusion is a personal and departmental goal for many of us, but what does it mean? What does inclusion look or feel like? How does violence take shape on college campuses and how do we ensure support and inclusion of survivors of this violence? This discussion-focused session will explore personal and professional experiences in order...

Black History Month – Screening of 1619 Project

Herklotz Conference Room 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine

Join us for a celebration of Black History Month as we gather to watch the first episode of The 1619 Project based on the landmark project in The New York Times Magazine by the Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist and author Nikole Hannah Jones. This program is co-sponsored by Bio Sci ODEI, the UCI Black Thriving Initiative,...

Picture a Scientist

Herklotz Conference Room 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine

About the Event: The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the School of Biological Sciences invites you to a to join in a screening and discussion of Picture a Scientist, in honor of Women’s History month. The screening will take place on March 16 from 2-5pm in the Herklotz Conference Facility, Qureshey Research Lab. Screening...

Gender Equity in Academia

ISEB 1010 419 Physical Sciences Quad, Irvine, CA, United States

Join us for a talk on gender equity in academia This event is hosted by the UCI School of Biological Sciences and UCI School of Physical Sciences. Please RSVP below to attend! Friday, May 12, 2023 Starts at 4:00 p.m. ISEB 1010 (Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Building) About the Speaker Paul Walton is internationally known...

2023 Minority Science Programs (MSP) Research Symposium

Event Details Dates: September 25-26, 2023 Time: 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. (both days) Location: Please see agenda for details and locations. Each year, undergraduate and graduate students participating in MSP research come together to present their findings at a two-day symposium at UCI BioSci. At this year’s symposium, students will present work completed with...

Anti-Racism Education in the Academy

Herklotz Conference Room 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine

  About the Event Anti-racism Education initiatives are becoming more prevalent at academic institutions. What is the demonstrated need for such education? What are the different perspectives driving how we design and implement anti-racism education? How can we measure the effectiveness of such initiatives?This symposium invites speakers from different campus areas and disciplines to weigh...

Movie Night: Hidden Figures

Herklotz Conference Room 300 Qureshey Research Lab, Irvine

Join UCI BioSci Office of Inclusive Excellence on February 13 from 3-5 p.m. for a film screening of Hidden Figures. Register Below: About Hidden Figures HIDDEN FIGURES is the incredible untold story of Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served...

Medical and Scientific Construction of Race: A Historical Perspective

Rana A. Hogarth, PhDAssociate Professor of history at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. > Learn more about Dr. Hogarth The UCI Office of Inclusive Excellence presents Rana Hogarth, Associate Professor of history at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840 (University of North Carolina...