Janet is a doctoral student in Humanistic Engineering. She is a United States citizen who has extensive international travel experience. Since she was a young child, she has travelled abroad with her family on Christian mission trips, a practice she continued to facilitate for herself through adulthood. Her lifelong travel experiences have informed her research agenda.
The faculty of the philosophy department set time on the agenda to discuss an open letter received from graduate students earlier that month. The open letter, which was co-authored by several of their graduate students and received signatures from dozens of current students and alumni, details student concerns with the lack of representation in the department, making reference to both issues of identity and epistemological diversity.
Rueben is the director and principal investigator of a lab in wildlife and fisheries. He attends a meeting as a function of Academic and Student Affairs’ joint student success initiative. At the meeting, Reuben learns about a phenomenon on his campus in which several labs on campus have been successful in attracting women, queer and trans folk and students of color as undergraduate and graduate research assistants.
Following a series of direct actions by student activists and their faculty and staff allies, a team of faculty and researchers in Biology engage in a learning series about the department’s history with the 20th century eugenics movement. The team’s dialogue and self-study reveal troubling and violent research agendas in the department’s past that directly contributed to scientific racism and ultimately produced harmful and inaccurate knowledge that drives contemporary white supremacist discourses.
Todd is research faculty in the school of public policy. Todd is actively engaged in equity research with a particular focus on the fair, just and equitable management of public serving institutions and the fair and equitable distribution of public services.
Angela is an associate professor in industrial engineering. Her research agenda focuses on human interactions with the built environment. In the past year, Angela has been reading articles that discuss the incorporation of critical and multicultural inquiry frameworks in engineering research. Motivated by these concepts, she begins attending presentations at regional and national conferences that discuss similar ideas in an effort to make connections and find community.
A team of faculty and graduate students in Geology is regularly engaged in field trips as research activities often require off-site data collection. These field trips are often overnight camping trips, typically in remote or semi-remote locations.
Christina serves as director of a biology lab that facilitates research on human cadavers. Her lab also serves as a teaching site for undergraduate courses in anatomy and physiology. She has served as lab director for more than 10 years. In that time, there has been minimal change to her facilities and her standard operational procedures.
Lilly is a clinical faculty member in social psychology. She is currently exploring social phenomena at the intersection of faith identity, race, and gender. Her current study explores the experiences of African American women who identify as Muslim, which is also an experience she shares. Her primary data collection, which included interviews, is now over. As a part of her phenomenological design, Lilly incorporated a member check process in which she will share initial results with her participants to garner their feedback and negotiate her conclusions.
Rachel is an assistant professor in Early Childhood Education, studying parenting and home life practices of Latinx families related to child literacy. Rachel’s research design for her current project includes home visits, interviews and surveys with parents and other live-in adults.
