Diversity, Inclusion, and Access
Diversity, Inclusion, and Access (DI&A) in the Geology and Geological Engineering Department
The Geology and Geological Engineering department values diversity in all its forms, and we strive to ensure that our department is welcoming and accessible. Please explore below for more information about DI&A efforts in the department, campus resources, and to learn about ways to get involved.
We’re always looking for more committee members! For more information about the GGE DI&A committee and to get involved, or to contact the DI&A committee anonymously, please use the feedback form at right.
Ongoing and Completed Activities
Our work encompasses three major areas to enhance DI&A in our department that were identified based on a 2021 departmental climate survey:
Click through the slides below to see what we’ve done and how these items fit into our three major priorities areas.
Ongoing Events
DIA& Workshops: Facilitating Difficult Conversations Toolkit
Resources
Campus Resources
Food, Housing, and Transportation Resources
- City of Golden food bank
- Food and housing assistance in Golden
- Lunch & Life at Calvary Church (free lunches for students on Tuesdays 11-1 in the Great Hall)
- Fighting Hunger at Mines
- Free RTD/Ore Cart
Navigating graduate school
- GGE Graduate Admissions
- Navigating Graduate School (from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation)
- Building an inclusive Research Experience for Undergraduates (for faculty)
University-sponsored grants and scholarships
- Travel Grants – Undergraduate Scholarships
- Graduate Student Government
- Meeting attende/presenter grants
- Family assistance grant
- Lecture series grant
Graduate student funding resources
Check out the list compiled here.
Several Geology faculty also maintain lists of relevant graduate student funding opportunities on their personal webpages. These include:
- https://surfaceprocesses.mines.edu/outreach-resources/
- https://people.mines.edu/ksingha/links/
- https://people.mines.edu/adriennemarshall/join/
Scholarship that informs our work
- Ali, H. N., Sheffield, S. L., Bauer, J. E., Caballero-Gill, R. P., Gasparini, N. M., Libarkin, J., Gonzales, K. K., Willenbring, J., Amir-Lin, E., Cisneros, J., Desai, D., Erwin, M., Gallant, E., Gomez, K. J., Keisling, B. A., Mahon, R., Marín-Spiotta, E., Welcome, L., & Schneider, B. (2021). An actionable anti-racism plan for geoscience organizations. Nature Communications, 12(1), 3794. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23936-w
- Berhe, A. A., Barnes, R. T., Hastings, M. G., Mattheis, A., Schneider, B., Williams, B. M., & Marín-Spiotta, E. (2022). Scientists from historically excluded groups face a hostile obstacle course. Nature Geoscience, 15(1), 2–4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00868-0
- Chaudhary, V. B., & Berhe, A. A. (2020). Ten simple rules for building an antiracist lab. PLOS Computational Biology, 16(10), e1008210. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008210
- Dutt, K. (2020). Race and racism in the geosciences. Nature Geoscience, 13(1), 2–3. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-019-0519-z
- Morris, V. R. (2021). Combating Racism in the Geosciences: Reflections From a Black Professor. AGU Advances, 2(1), e2020AV000358. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020AV000358
Events and Announcements
Integrate the GGE DIA calendar into yours using this link to stay up to date with GGE DIA events.
Committee members
- Adrienne Marshall (Assistant Professor)
- Yvette Kuiper (Associate Professor, Committee Chair)
- Mary Carr (Research Assistant Professor)
- Piret Plink-Bjorklund (Professor)
- Brendan Hanger (Teaching Assistant Professor)
- Wendy Bohrson (Professor)
- Luke Gezovich (Ph.D. Candidate)
- Lauren Guido (Ph.D. Student)
- Arielle Koshkin (Ph.D. Student)
We’re always looking for more committee members. If you’d like to join the committee, please fill out this form or email one of the committee members listed above to express your interest.
Acknowledgements
We live and work in and around Golden, CO, on the traditional lands of the hinono’eino’ biito’owu’ (Arapaho), Núu-agha-tʉvʉ-pʉ̱ (Ute), and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) people. We recognize that land acknowledgements such as this one are a small and incomplete step towards honoring the sovereignty and rights of Tribal Nations and offer this in a spirit of continuous improvement and work.
Photos used on this site are from committee members and from Unsplash.com; artists include Miriam Jessie, Nathan Dumlao, Nguyen Dang Hoang Nhu, Noom Peerapong, and UX Indonesia.
