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By Life@TheU By Life@TheU
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend events and join enriching conversations throughout February to honor and celebrate Black History Month. Learn more about upcoming events and find details to register
The Lowe Art Museum and Human Resource s Workplace Equity and Inclusion
Tuesday, Feb. 9 and Wednesday, Feb. 24
The University community is invited to connect with the Lowe Art Museum for a guided conversation that will engage your mind, stimulate your vision, and enhance your skills to support an inclusive workplace and community. In support and recognition of Black History Month, Connect and Create will showcase works from Black artists Kara Walker on Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 5 p.m, and Romare Howard Bearden, Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 12 p.m. Hosted in partnership with HR’s Workplace Equity and Inclusion, participants will have an opportunity to engage in enriching dialogue to support an inclusive culture of belonging. Space is limited; regis
January 20, 2021
by Abigail Roth
Yale School of Medicine (YSM) students have led the effort, on campus and nationally, to advocate for first-generation and low-income (FGLI) students in medicine, creating organizations and developing resources to help students access and navigate medical school. This includes working to end the default perception that FGLI students are high-risk in medical school, and replace it with the recognition that their diverse perspectives significantly enhance medical education and will improve how health care is delivered.
YSM fifth-year MD-PhD student Mytien Nguyen, MS, played a central role in the creation of two toolkits, one for first-generation medical school students and another for their advisors and families, launched nationally through the AAMC in November 2020. She says the student toolkit would have been helpful when she started medical school, a time when there was no first-generation or low-income identity student group at YSM or any othe
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USF anthropologists work to strengthen relationships with Indigenous communities
University of South Florida anthropologists are taking a critical look at the past in an effort to build and strengthen future relationships with Indigenous communities in Florida and across the country.
Efforts to more closely collaborate with Native American communities are certainly not new in the Department of Anthropology. For years, faculty members have worked on numerous research projects tied to Native American cultural sites and artifacts. This latest push, however, looks to renew that focus and develop wider-reaching initiatives that not only strengthen anthropological research at USF, but also provide positive outcomes for tribal communities and their members.
City Manager Tom Ambrosino took the podium at Monday’s first Council meeting to deliver a recap of the madness that was 2020 in Chelsea, and the hard work and hope that lies ahead in 2021 for the City.
“We have just come through an extraordinarily challenging time here in the City, perhaps the most difficult since receivership,” he said. “However, this pandemic we face is not over yet…There’s no denying the terrible, terrible toll COVID-19 exacted on this community economically, physically and emotionally.”
Ambrosino started by recapping so much of the tremendous support that was provided by the Administration and the City Council with City, state and federal funding over the past 10 months. He said the Council and the community responded to the tragedy and the needs with “some degree of effectiveness.”