S19 Minority Issues in STEM Seminar Minoritiy performance in academia
Our department’s demographic based on department picture board, read 5/8/19 Undergraduate students 91 total 23 female 16 minority (Hispanic, Black, etc.) 33 total plus 2 non-traditional SB (4 non-disadvantaged minority) Graduate students 39 total 11 female 12 minority 20 total (4 non-disadvantaged minority)
When do we lose male/female majors?
http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/APR19/Session/T07.1
Your belief to succeed affects your success. Impact of emotional support/encouragement.
Sense of belonging – ‘being’ a physicist/astronomer vs. Impostor syndrome
Stereotypes about physicists
Nature 510, 303, Miller et al.
https://www.aps.org/programs/minorities/index.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/women/sitevisits/index.cfm https://www.aps.org/programs/lgbt/index.cfm Minorities, women, LGBT in physics https://aas.org/education/aas-task-force-diversity-and-inclusion-graduate-astronomy-education