Dean’s Inclusive Excellence Seminar Series
The CALS Dean’s Inclusive Excellence Seminar Series highlights academic excellence through inclusive science and creates a platform for extended discussions on how our science can and should be transformative in leading to best practices and policies that support social, economic, environmental and climate justice.
See below for more information about future and past seminars. All events are open to the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences community. Videos will be added to each event page as they become available with the permission of the speaker. If you are interested in developing a program for this series, contact your department or unit's Leader for Diversity and Inclusion.
In Spring 2022, the seminar series focused on science-based solutions to grand challenges in equity and inclusion. Speakers demonstrated interdisciplinary scholarship and translational research that centers equity, inclusion and justice by explicitly addressing systemic challenges facing historically and habitually marginalized and disadvantaged communities. Demonstrating engagement and evidence-based approaches, the seminars highlighted scientific advances in topics including climate and environmental justice; social and socio-economic system resilience under globalization and technological change; health equity; disparities in access/use/representation in media and communication technologies; food security and production; agricultural, natural resource, land, and water (dis)possession and management; improving urban landscapes and ecosystems; and access, equity, and inclusion in the realm of artificial intelligence, big data, computational biology and/or the basic life sciences.
Future seminar event programming will be announced at a later date.