GSBS Diversity Interest Group at UMass Medical School

Join us for our joint event with the BMB Anti-racist Reading Club!! Reading the book is NOT a requirement to attend! Please message us if you would like to borrow a copy of the book!

It’s Argentina 🇦🇷 vrs France 🇫🇷 in the World Cup final game tomorrow!!! Join DIG and UMPA tomorrow at 10am in AS1.2130 MPR to watch the game together. There will be food and trivia 😉😉. Come in your best soccer gear to rep your favorite soccer team/player.

See you there at 10am.

to our successful Arts and Crafts night event (DIGsgiving). We hope to see you all again at upcoming events.

PS: all of you are talented!!!

Join DIG on Friday, November 18th for our Arts and Crafts night.
There will be music, snacks, and other fun activities for everyone.
Check your emails to RSVP if you haven’t done so yet. See you there!

Some pictures from our welcome back social event with and IMSD. Stay tuned for the upcoming events!

The new academic year is here, and so are DIG events.
DIG, , and IMSD are excited to bring this event to you.
Join us on Sept 1 at 4:30pm to welcome ourselves back and make new friends.
Make sure to RSVP and bring a friend.
We hope to see you there!

to our arts and crafts night. This was our official last event of the academic year 🎉 , and are glad that all attendees enjoyed this event. We can’t wait to bring you more fun events next year 😀.

Excited to see you all at arts and crafts night today!!! Note that we have changed the location to AS5.2072 because of weather✨

Thanks to Mohammed for allowing DIG to showcase his headshots taken by .

DIG had two headshot sessions last month with a student photographer, Batu. The pictures came out great, and everyone is excited with their headshots. We look forward to having more useful mini events like this one in the near future.

The first installment of the WOMEN IN STEM series was a great success. We are very grateful to and Dr. Jean King, Dr. Kerrie Wilkins-Yel, Dr. Christina Baer, and the audience for sharing their stories and education us. We cannot wait to bring you the subsequent installments.

Excited to introduce our last panelist, Dr. Jean King! Dr. King is an active neuroscientist and Peterson Family Dean of Arts & Sciences at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Previously Dr. King was the Vice Provost of Biomedical Research and Professor of Psychiatry, Radiology, and Neurology (with tenure) at UMass Medical School, where she had been a faculty member since 1994. Dr. King has been the recipient of continuous extramural funding from NIH for over two decades. She has published over 100 original scientific papers in highly respected international scientific journals, over 10 chapters in books and review articles in major neurophysiology journals and is an editor of New York Academy of Sciences Publication-Roots of Mental Illness in Children.
Dr. King also has significant leadership roles in the scientific and academic communities, at the national and international level including serving as the Co-chair of World Women in Neuroscience, Co-Director of the Summer Program in Neuroscience, Ethics and Survival (Marine Biological Lab-MBL) and numerous national executive and/or advisory committees of scientific organizations like Society for Neuroscience and the Institute of Neurobiology in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Dr. King is also a passionate advocate for diversity in STEM and mentor of young scientists, above and beyond the many direct trainees she has supported. Her mentoring success has been recognized with several awards including GK50 Award for the Most Influential People of Color in Healthcare and the Life Sciences; the Outstanding Mentor Award from the Department of Psychiatry (UMASS Medical School) as University of Massachusetts System; and the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Award, which afforded the opportunity to develop and refine a comprehensive micro-communities model of mentorship to support early faculty development.