BE Board:Diversity events

Mission
The mission of the BE Diversity Committee is to celebrate and support diversity in BE, namely by planning and promoting activities that:
 * 1) Make all members of the department feel welcomed, valued, supported, and included,
 * 2) Demonstrate the need for diversity within the department,
 * 3) Allow free and constructive communication about diversity issues,
 * 4) Encourage increasing numbers of underrepresented minorities among the students, post-doctoral fellows, staff, and faculty in BE.

Upcoming events
2nd Annual BE Diversity Potluck: Friday, April 13th 12-1pm NE47-189 (Tech Square) Sign up to bring something to share!

Recruitment Visits
Join in and visit either a predominantly minority serving US college or university, or your US undergraduate institution to help recruit US under-represented minority graduate students to our Biological Engineering Division!

Movie/dinner diversity-promoting informal events
BE Diversity celebrates French culture (January 2006) BE Diversity celebrates Caribbean culture (November 17, 2005) BE Diversity celebrates Puerto Rican culture (August 19, 2005): pictures! BE Diversity celebrates Iranian culture (June 17, 2005): pictures! BE Diversity celebrates Indian culture (April 8, 2005): pictures!

BE Diversity seminars
Christopher M. Jones, MIT Assistant Dean for Graduate Students (December 14, 2005) Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard Vice Provost for Diversity (April 12, 2006)

Inter-lab luncheons
Grodzinsky/Hamad-Schifferli/White inter-lab lunch (October 4, 2005)

Small-scale focused discussions on diversity issues
BE Women in Academia Mentoring Event (April 25, 2005)

Meetings
9/20/05