Diversity Equity and Inclusion Content

Association Offers Ladders of Opportunity to Hispanic Students

Julia Ann Easley — March 05, 2024 - 1:00pm

A series of five deaths in her extended family had devastated Jasmine Diaz, and the neurobiology, physiology and behavior major was on academic probation through 2022. She had given up her dream to become a doctor or even to continue in science.

Today, the fifth-year student is thrilled to be working in the cancer lab of Professor Luis Carvajal-Carmona, is recommitted to a career in science, and has a passion to help underrepresented and first-generation students.

Navigating Disruptive Speech in the Classroom

Dave Jones — January 31, 2023 - 3:04pm

The Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion is asking faculty and other instructors to share their experiences with disruptive speech in the classroom, lab or in the field — with the information to be used for a project funded by a grant from the UC Office of the President’s Advancing Faculty Diversity, or AFD, initiative.

Former Astronaut Tells Youth to ‘Dream Big’

Julia Ann Easley — May 17, 2022 - 11:46am

“I’m going to give you the license to dream and to dream big.”

That’s the message José Hernandez, a former astronaut and a member of the UC Board of Regents since last August, shared with about 1,200 students and others who gathered at ��Ƶ for the Cesar Chavez Youth Leadership Conference and Celebration last Saturday (May 14).