Congratulations to our 2023 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mini-Grant Awardees

The Office of Faculty Affairs is thrilled to announce the winners of the 2023 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Mini-Grant Award.
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The Office of Faculty Affairs received an incredible number of applications for this year's grant competition. We are pleased to recognize the following award recipients:

  • Kelsa Bartley (UM Libraries), Erica Powell (UM Libraries), JoAnn Van Schaik (Miller School of Medicine), and Saily Marrero (UM Libraries)
    • Project Title - Traveling Exhibition: 19th Century African American Female Physicians
  • Elahe Nezami (Miller School of Medicine), Viviana Horigian (Miller School of Medicine), and Gauri Agarwal (Miller School of Medicine) 
    • Project Title - The KIND Program: Kindle Inclusion through Narratives of Diversity
  • Nadia Gal (College of Arts and Sciences) and Leticia Oropesa (College of Arts and Sciences)
    • Project Title - Promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Higher Education: A Teaching and Learning Guide for Graduate Students
  • Karlisa Callwood (College of Arts and Sciences) and Kenny Broad (Rosenstiel School)
    • Project Title - DEIAJ in the Environmental Sciences Symposium
  • Helen Hui-Chou (Miller School of Medicine)
    • Project Title - Widening the Lens: A Strategic Initiative to Increase the Diversity of Invited Speakers in Orthopaedic Surgery
  • Sima Marzban (College of Arts and Sciences)
    • Project Title - Measuring and Promoting UM Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI): Improved Self-Assessment Tool and Metrics
  • Giacomo Po (College of Engineering)
    • Project Title - Supporting DEI students in the NASA Student Launch Competition and Rocket Design
  • Basil Williams Jr. (Miller School of Medicine)
    • Project Title - Handling Discrimination in the Workplace
  • Patricia Saunders (College of Arts and Sciences) and Beatrice Colastin Skokan (UM Libraries)
    • Project Title - Caribbean Literary Studies Archiving Project
  • Delia Shelton (College of Arts and Sciences), and Kim-Phuong Truong-Vu (College of Arts and Sciences)
    • Project Title - UM Junior Faculty of Color Writing Group and Writing Retreat
  • Timothy Watson (College of Arts and Sciences), Patricia Saunders (College of Arts and Sciences),  Thomas Goodmann (College of Arts and Sciences), Kathryn Freeman (College of Arts and Sciences), and Kei Miller (College of Arts and Sciences)
    • Project Title - Graduate Students and Faculty of Color Recruitment and Retention
  • Jiayu Li (College of Engineering)
    • Project Title - Advancing Diversity and Inclusion: Insights and Strategies from the Society of Toxicology Conference