Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Mission Statement

Our purpose is to foster a collaborative community that affirms our experiences.
Our mission is to provide consultation on initiatives important to inclusion efforts, promoting cultural sensitivity and integrating values of DEI into the Department.

We seek to:

  • Evaluate the departmental climate to identify and address existing issues
  • Create supportive spaces for engaging in uncomfortable conversations
  • Foster diverse interests and career goals of all trainees, faculty, and staff
  • Catalyze sense of belonging through social celebrations of our diverse community
  • Provide resources and organize pilot programs that accomplish these objectives

We do this because:

  • Individuals experience unique challenges navigating higher education
  • We want to ensure retention of members of our community at every level
  • Collaboration across different backgrounds produces innovations in fundamental medical research and fundamental change in society

We invite anyone in the Biological Chemistry community to communicate with us relevant to our mission: to discuss, suggest, and participate with us.