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Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Announces 5 Recipients Of 2024 Student Scholarships

PA Environment Daily

These students were chosen based on a demonstration of exemplary academic achievement and commitment to furthering the conservation of wildlife and natural resources in Pennsylvania. in Wildlife & Fisheries Science and a minor in Biology & Forest Ecosystems.

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Natalia Kucirkova and Loleta Fahad – We all must come together – without one part of the puzzle, there isn’t a full picture 

Frontiers

Natalia and Loleta’s collaboration culminated in their published work, Inspirational Women in Academia: Supporting Careers and Improving Minority Representation (2022). Natalia: “One of the things that struck me is that there is a lot of glorification of academic work, with the demanding nature and long hours that become part of the culture.

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Beware of the ‘alliars’ when it comes to diversity in science

Physics World

What use is superficially lobbying for change at international level when they cannot even extend small acts of goodwill and compassion to ethnic minority, LGBTQ+ and disabled colleagues in their own faculties or departments? This is why real allies can be so difficult to find for marginalized academics.

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Wildlife For Everyone Foundation Announces College Scholarship Recipients

PA Environment Daily

These students were chosen based on demonstration of exemplary academic achievement and commitment to furthering the conservation of wildlife and natural resources in Pennsylvania. Anne has participated in several undergraduate research projects, including an investigation of eastern box turtle thermal ecology and population monitoring.

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Publication boost for LGBTQA scientists who disclose their identities at work

Physics World

That is according to an analysis of two US-based surveys, the findings of which highlight the productivity cost of workplaces that are unwelcoming to sexual and gender minorities ( PLOS ONE 17 e0263728 ). The surveys were conducted by Jeremy Yoder , a biologist at California State University Northridge, and colleagues.

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Taking A Data-Driven Tour of Air Pollution Law

Legal Planet

There’s some evidence of hot spots or of disparate impacts on minority groups or the poor, but it’s fairly limited. However, the economics publication process is arduous and probably the slowest of any academic discipline. It concludes that emissions trading generally did produce cost reductions as advertised.

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Credit where it’s due: why not nominate yourself or a colleague for an Institute of Physics award?

Physics World

Of those winners of IOP awards last year who chose to include data about their personal background, some 19% were from Black, Asian or other minority-ethnic groups (for comparison they make up 16% of UK academic physics staff).

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