MANRRS

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MANRRS is a non-profit organization registered in the state of Michigan that promotes academic and professional advancement by empowering minorities in agriculture, natural resources, and related sciences.

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MAES: Latinos in science and engineering

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MAES is recognized as a prominent organization for its development and contributions towards the success of Latino leaders in STEM.

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Minority Postdoc

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A web portal on the minority postdoctoral experience featuring news, articles, resources, and events about jobs, career advice, professional development, funding, fellowships, mentoring, and diversity issues.

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Typical physics Ph.D. admissions criteria limit access to underrepresented groups but fail to predict doctoral completion

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Researchers are urging universities across the United States to find a new way to identify the next generation of scientists. A new study discovered that traditional admissions metrics for physics Ph.D. programs such as the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) do not predict completion and hurt the growth of diversity in physics, which is already the least diverse of the sciences.

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#GeoGRExit: Why Geosciences Programs Are Dropping the GRE

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Geoscience graduate programs are increasingly abandoning the controversial test as an admissions requirement, a welcome development for equity and inclusion in the field. How can your school be next?

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NSF INCLUDES

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Inclusion across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (NSF INCLUDES) is a comprehensive effort to enhance U.S. leadership in science and engineering discovery and innovation by proactively seeking and effectively developing science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) talent from all sectors and groups in our society.

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The Diversity–Innovation Paradox in Science

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By analyzing data from nearly all US PhD recipients and their dissertations across three decades, this paper finds demographically underrepresented students innovate at higher rates than majority students, but their novel contributions are discounted and less likely to earn them academic positions. The discounting of minorities’ innovations may partly explain their underrepresentation in influential positions of academia.

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Gender-Heterogeneous Working Groups Produce Higher Quality Science

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The first empirical evidence to support the hypothesis that a gender-heterogeneous problem-solving team generally produced journal articles perceived to be higher quality by peers than a team comprised of highly-performing individuals of the same gender.

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Groups of diverse problem solvers can outperform groups of high-ability problem solvers

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Introduces a general framework for modeling functionally diverse problem-solving agents.

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Research team performance

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A blog post about how we can improve the creativity and performance of research teams

Chronicle of Higher education article with recommendations on centering accountability in DEI statements.