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email article Amid national outcry for racial justice last summer, neuroscience graduate student Angeline Dukes yearned for a sense of community among Black scholars in her field. Following the murder of George Floyd and subsequent Black Lives Matter protests, Black scientists from other disciplines -- including astronomy, botany, geology, marine science, and ornithology -- created online movements to celebrate the work of their peers and bring attention to discrimination in STEM. Duk...

email article Blinding reviewers to applicant photos, discarding standardized testing, and other strategies to improve equity increased the proportion of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in a cardiology fellowship program, researchers reported. The multipronged intervention boosted the proportion of the entire fellowship who were women from the previous 5-year mean of 27.0% to 54.2% after 3 years of the changes (2017-2019), reported Jennifer A. Rymer, MD, MBA, of Duke C...