Spring 2021
Friday, February 5th
- Discussion led by the BREWS Committee on two articles: "Underrepresented faculty play a disproportionate role in advancing diversity & inclusion" and "Institutional Mixed Messaging"
- Title/topic: "Invisible Labor"
Fall 2020
Wednesday, October 14th, 2020 (Departmental Seminar co-hosted with BREWS) (virtual)
- Speaker: Scott Lanyon
- Department: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: "Promoting Continuous Graduate Program Improvement"
Friday, November 6th (virtual)
- Speakers: EEB International Student Orientation Committee
- Department: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: "International Student Perspectives: Challenges & Strategies"
Friday, December 4th (virtual)
- Video of keynote address and commentary article by Beronda Montgomery, discussion led by the BREWS Committee
- Title/topic: "Black in Microbiology" and "Lessons from Microbes: What Can We Learn about Equity from Unculturable Bacteria?"
Spring 2020
Friday, February 14th, 2020
- Speaker: Cori Bazemore-James
- Graduate Diversity Office Director of Reten, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: "Class Barriers in Academia: Moving Beyond a Deficit Model"
Fall 2019
Friday, November 1st, 2019
- Speaker: Scott Lanyon
- Department: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: "2019 gradSERU: An explanation and discussion of EEB results"
Friday, December 6th, 2019
- Speaker: Kate Barry
- Graduate Coordinator in Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: "Valuing Diversity in Graduate Admissions: A Case Study"
Spring 2018
Thursday, February 1st, 2018
- Speaker: Marlene Zuk
- Department: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: "Gender equity and myths of merit"
Thursday, March 1st, 2018
- Speaker(s): Allison Shaw and Daniel Stanton
- Department: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: "Approaching the "leaky-pipeline" as ecologists"
Thursday, April 5th, 2018
- Speaker: Noro Andriamanalina
- Department: The Graduate School Diversity Office, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: "Top 10 Challenges to Diversifying Graduate Education"
Thursday, May 3rd, 2018
- Speaker: Scott Lanyon
- Department: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: “Increasing diversity and inclusion in higher education: Changing culture"
Fall 2018
- Friday, September 7th, 2018
- Speaker: Siddharth Iyengar
- Department: Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: “How should we talk about race or gender at work?”
Friday, October 5th, 2018
- Speaker: Donna Johnson
- Department: Disability Resource Center, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: “What’s trending in disability?”
Friday, November 2nd, 2018
- Speaker: Sehoya Cotner
- Department: Biology teaching and learning, University of Minnesota
- Title/topic: "The 'Course Deficit Model': Envisioning more equitable science, technology , engineering and math education"
Friday, December 7th, 2018
- Speaker: Kathleen Treseder (via Skype)
- Department: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine
- Title/topic: "Reducing the risk of sexual harrassment and assault in field work"