Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Past Initiatives
CNBC Early Career Research Seminar Series
The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (CNBC), an important training partner of NI, hosts an Early Career Research (ECR) Seminar Series. This series features traditionally underrepresented and minority neuroscientists at early career stages (senior graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and early-stage faculty), who are actively conducting exciting work in fields relevant to the CNBC community. A main goal of the seminar series is to create a platform for outstanding young scientists from diverse backgrounds to share their research and network with the CNBC community.
PIER: Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research
The NI provides sponsorship to CMU's Program in Interdisciplinary Education Research (PIER), which is an interdisciplinary pre-doctoral training program funded by the Institute of Education Sciences at CMU that is aimed at preparing a new generation of researchers who will be:- Grounded in cutting-edge theories and methodologies in cognitive and developmental psychology, statistics, human-computer interaction instructional technology, Education Policy and Economics.
- Familiar with many of the fundamental problems facing education in America.
- Committed to applying their skills and knowledge to solving those problems.
Neurons to Neighborhoods
The Neurons to Neighborhoods series was designed to introduce the latest brain research to teachers, social workers and nonprofit and foundation leaders who work with children and others in the community.
Teen Brain Workshop: This event was sponsored by the Heinz Endowments. The event explored implications of the latest brain research for schools, parents and community groups serving youth.
Early Brain Development Workshop: This brought together researchers and early care and education practitioners to leverage the latest brain research to improve services and overcome policy challenges.
Community Outreach
BrainStorm: Students from three regional high schools visited Carnegie Mellon to tour research labs and learn about analyzing data from experiments conducted in these labs.
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How can we do better?
We welcome creative suggestions for how we can make the Neuroscience Institute a more inclusive community.
