Hosted by the Research, Ethics, and Society Initiative (RESI) of Pitt Research
May 6-9, 2024
The Research, Ethics and Society Initiative is pleased to open a call for faculty and graduate students to participate in its second annual summer seminar. All those who teach, mentor, or recruit students/trainees in any capacity—on any Pitt campus, in classrooms or labs, at any career stage, and in any discipline/field—are invited to join colleagues in an interdisciplinary discussion of ways to diversify participation in STEM fields, and thereby improve research outcomes in STEM.
The seminar will thus consider ways to ‘improve outcomes’ in multiple senses: (1) how to recruit and retain a diverse range of students, faculty, career workers, and perhaps even research participants in STEM fields; (2) how diversifying the STEM research workforce leads to more accurate, generalizable, and useful outcomes of research; and (3) how diversifying STEM fields in these ways yields improved outcomes in terms of societal benefit. Sessions will be led by Pitt colleagues whose work focuses on the challenges and promise of achieving greater diversity in STEM.
This seminar will meet at the following times:
Monday, May 6: 1:00 – 4:00 pm
Tuesday, May 7: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Thursday, May 9: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Because of the discussion-intensive nature of this seminar, meetings will take place in-person on the Pitt Oakland campus. Small groups of applicants from other Pitt campuses who wish to apply as a discussion group (as an interactive “watch party” in a room together on their own campuses) may be supplied with online access so that they may participate together.
Participants are expected to participate in all sessions and complete all readings and will be expected to set goals for the seminar and craft a plan of action for the 2024-2025 academic year. The stipend for completion of all these activities is $1000.
Please direct questions to RESI@pitt.edu or to the RESI’s programming director, Bridget Keown (keown.b@pitt.edu). Questions about applying as a group located on a regional campus should be directed to RESI director, Lisa Parker (lisap@pitt.edu).
Applications to participate on the Pittsburgh campus, should be completed by 11:59 pm on Friday, April 26. Those selected to participate will be informed on or before May 1.
Individual Applicants: Apply here.
Groups applying to participate together from a regional campus should instead designate a contact person to complete this single group application.