For additional information regarding EIJC events or suggestions for future topics to cover, please email us.
| Date/Time | Location | Speaker | Title | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2025 | |||||
| Fri, Oct 24, 11:00am | Serin 330 and Zoom [link] | Sarah Kane (University of Cambridge) | Accessibility in Astronomy: HTML papers on arXiv, alternative text, and data sonification | ||
| Spring 2025 | |||||
| TBD | |||||
| Fall 2024 | |||||
| Wed, Oct 1, 11:00am | Serin 330 | Megan Tillman (Rutgers) | PhD studies hurt mental health, but less than previously feared [ref] | ||
| Spring 2024 | |||||
| Wed, Feb 21, 12:00pm | Meet in Rm 330 then discuss over lunch. | Liam McDermott (Rutgers) | Gender Equity in Physics Labs [ref] | ||
| Fall 2023 | |||||
| Wed, Oct 4, 11:00am | Rm 330 or Zoom | Liam McDermott (Rutgers) | Performing Physics, Performing Identity, and Performing Research in a Neurodivergent Way | ||
| Spring 2023 | |||||
| Mon, Jan 30, 2:00pm | Rm 330 or Zoom | Conor Larison (Rutgers) | How well-intentioned white male physicists maintain ignorance of inequity and justify inaction. [ref] [Slides] | ||
| Mon, Feb 13, 2:00pm | Rm 330 or Zoom | Department Union Reps | How unions protect you and your colleagues – how your actions can promote positive change. | ||
| Mon, Mar 20, 2:00p | Rm 330 or Zoom | Maxwell Franklin (Drexel University) | Studying Persistence in Undergraduate Women | ||
| Mon, May 1, 2:00pm | Rm 330 or Zoom | Munira Hoosain (University of Cape Town, South African Astronomical Observatory) | Astronomy for Socio-Economic Development in South Africa | ||
| Fall 2022 | |||||
| Mon, Sep 12, 3:30pm | Rm 330 or Zoom | Megan Tillman (Rutgers) | Roe v. Wade and the implications [ref] [Slides] | ||
| Mon, Oct 3, 4:00pm | Rm 385 or Zoom | Claire Riggs (Rutgers) | Institutional Biases in Higher Education | ||
| Mon, Nov 7, 4:00pm | Rm 385 or Zoom | Liam McDermott (Rutgers) | Neurodiversity in Research and the Classroom | ||
| Mon, Dec 5, 4:00pm | Rm 385 or Zoom | Dan Oleynik (University of Central Florida) | TBA | ||
| Spring 2022 | |||||
| Mon, Feb 21, 3:30pm | Zoom | Conor Larison (Rutgers) | Disability in Physics and Astronomy [Slides] | ||
| Mon, Nov 7, 4:00pm | Zoom | Liam McDermott (Rutgers) | The Privilege Degrees of Separation Gives Us: ‘The Priesthood’, The ‘Black Tax’, and Formulating Fixes for Fixed Physics Friction [ref] [slides] [additional resources:1,2,3] |
||
| Mon, April 25, 3:30pm | Zoom | Charlotte Olsen (Rutgers) | Burnout or Breakthrough? Exploring the Psychological Cost of Academia on Grad Students [refs:1,2,3] | ||
| Mon, May 23, 3:30pm | Zoom | Kaitlin Rasmussen (University of Washington) | Handling Imposter Syndrome as a Marginalized Researcher | ||
| Mon, June 27, 3:30pm | Zoom | Avery Kiihne (Rutgers) | The State of LGBTQ Physicists and the James Webb Space Telescope [Slides] |
||
| Mon, July 18, 3:30pm | Zoom | Dilys Ruan (Rutgers) | Fisher v. UT and Racial Equality in Physics [slides] [refs:1,2,3,4] |
||
| Fall 2021 | |||||
| Thu, Sep 9, 1:30pm | Zoom | Avery Kiihne (Rutgers) | Gatekeeping in STEM and Academia [refs:1,2,3,4] |
||
| Thu, Oct 14, 1:30pm | Zoom | Alyson Brooks (Rutgers) | Inclusive Name Change Policies for Research Journals [ref] |
||
| Nov 4, 4:00 pm | Zoom (joint MiPA-SPS Event) | Dilys Ruan & Rujuta Mokal (Rutgers) | Indigenous Lands & Where We Do Science [slides] [refs:1,2,3,4,5,6] |
||
| Thu, Nov 11, 1:30pm | Zoom | Sabrina Appel (Rutgers) | Assessing the Impact of the GRE [ref] |
||
| Thu, Dec 9, 1:30pm | Zoom | Yao-Yuan Mao (Rutgers) | Why Freedom of Speech is Not an Excuse for a Hostile Environment [ref] | ||
| Spring 2021 | |||||
| Thu, Feb 4, 1:30pm | Zoom | Grace Telford (Rutgers) | “Tools for Change: Boosting the Retention of Women in the STEM Pipeline” [ref] | ||
| Thu, Mar 4, 1:30pm | Zoom | Andrew Baker (Rutgers) | “The Mentor’s Dilemma: Providing Critical Feedback Across the Racial Divide” [ref] | ||
| Thu, May 6, 1:30pm | Zoom (joint MiPA-SPS Event) | Premi Chandra (Rutgers) | Allyship [ref] | ||
| Thu, June 3, 1:30pm | Zoom | Wayne Brown (Rutgers) | “Where do we go from here” [ref] | ||
| Fall 2020 | |||||
| Thu, Sep 10, 1:30pm | Zoom | Sabrina Appel (Rutgers) | First meeting: Code of Conduct, Purpose of EIJC [ref] | ||
| Thu, Oct 1, 1:30pm | Zoom | Charlotte Olsen (Rutgers) | Nonbinary Fraction and Nonbinary Systems: Whitepapers on the Future of Gender Equity in Space Sciences [ref] | ||
| Thu, Oct 30, 1:30pm | Zoom | Yssa Camacho-Neves (Rutgers) | Underrepresentation in STEM (Emphasis on Hispanics) | ||