Campus DEI Lectures & Events
The Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion collaborates with campus partners to support lectures, workshops, and events focusing on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our guest speakers, representing diverse backgrounds and scholarly interests, share research and insights to enhance our community’s shared understanding. These events promote an appreciation of diversity, equity, and inclusion and advance scientific progress.
The Rockefeller University Friday Lecture Series: “The Annual Science of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lecture”
(Upcoming) April 25, 2025 – Dr. Blanton Tolbert
March 15, 2024 – Dr. Suzanne Pierre, Ph.D., Critical Ecology Lab
April 21, 2023 – Dr. Yasmin Hurd, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
October 14, 2022 – Dr. Farah Lubin, Ph.D., University of Alabama Birmingham, “lncRNA Mediated Epigenetic Mechanisms in Memory Formation and Age-Related Memory Deficits”
May 7, 2021 – Dr. Hannah Valantine, M.D., Chief Officer for Scientific Workforce Diversity at NIH, Stanford University School of Medicine, “Achieving Inclusive Excellence in Biomedical Research: Applying Genomics to Unravel Health Disparities in Organ Transplantation”
Anderson Center for Cancer Research DEIJ series
April 25, 2022 – Dr. Fantasy Lozada, Ph.D., Virginia Commonwealth University, “‘Our Emotions Aren’t for Everyone: Understanding Cultural and Race-related Experiences in Socioemotional Development”
March 7, 2022 – Dr. Tabitha Grier-Reed, Ph.D., University of Minnesota, “Posttraumatic Growth and Flourishing in the Face of Racial Trauma”
February 7, 2022 – Dr. Neil Lewis Jr., Ph.D., Cornell University, “Intervening to Improve Health Equity”
December 13, 2021 – Dr. Jason Arday, Ph.D., Durham University, “Academia is a Crossfire Hurricane”
May 3, 2021 – Dr. Isaac Sabat, Ph.D., Texas A&M University, “Disclosure Dilemmas: Hidden Benefits of Revealing Not So Hidden Stigmas at Work”
January 11, 2021 – Dr. Sara Burke, Ph.D., Syracuse University, “Intergroup Contact and Prejudice Among American Medical Trainees”
December 14, 2020 – Dr. Candace Miller, Ph.D., Indiana University, “Covid-19 Pandemic and Racial Disparities in Economic Outcomes”
October 26, 2020 – Dr. Veronica Johnson, Ph.D., CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice, “Understanding and Unpacking Race-Based Traumatic Stress”
The Rockefeller Inclusive Science Initiative (RiSI) Special Seminars and Discussions on DEIJ
September 13, 2021 – Dr. William “Bil” Clemons Jr., Ph.D., California Institute of Technology, “How We Got Here, and Where Do We Go?”
2020 – BioAcCES 2020 (more info at rurisi.com/bioaccess)
Seminars in Clinical Research
January 25, 2023 – Dr. Lilly Immergluck, M.D., Morehouse School of Medicine, “Using Geographic Information Systems Tools to Explore Place Based Risks Associated with Community Onset Staphylococcus Aureus Infections: Comparing Atlanta to New York City”
September 7, 2022 – Marguerite S. Lederberg Annual Lecture – Dr. Neil A. Hanchard, Ph.D., NIH, “Diversity Origin Stories: Expanding the Landscape of Genetic Variation in Human Disease through Research and Engagement in Africa”
May 18, 2022 – Dr. Jonathan Avery, M.D., Cornell University, “The Stigma of Addiction in the Medical Community”
May 12, 2021 – Dr. Falusi Olopade Olufunmilayo, M.D., The University of Chicago, “Retooling Precision Medicine for True Equity in Cancer Care: Michael Lyons Memorial Lecture”
April 21, 2021 – Dr. Lawrence Brown, M.D., START Treatment & Recovery Centers, “Lessons Learned from Teletherapy in Treating Substance Use Disorders”
September 23, 2020 – Dr. Chibuzo Enemchukwu, M.D., CUNY Hunter College, “Community Engagement as a Path to Health Equity”
August 3, 2020 – Dr. Oluwadamilola “Lola” Fayanju, M.D., Duke University, “Beyond Us and Them: Eliminating Disparities among Our Patients and the Doctors Who Treat Them”
Additional Invited Lectures
June 18, 2024 – Dr. OiYan Poon, Ph.D., NAACP LDF Thurgood Marshall Institute, “Asian American Is Not a Color: Conversations on Race, Affirmative Action, and Family”
May 30, 2024 – Schuyler Bailar, “He/She/They: A Conversation about Gender”
April 24, 2024 – Dr. Beronda Montgomery, Ph.D., Grinnell College, “Planting Equity – Lessons from Plants on Cultivating Equitable Ecosystems” Co-sponsored by the Rockefeller University Hospital
April 23, 2024 – Maybe Burke, “Trans 101: An Inclusivity Workshop” Co-sponsored by RockOUT
November 21, 2022 – Dr. Erin Schuman, Ph.D., Director of the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, “A Life in Science: An Evening with Professor Erin Schuman”
March 3, 2020 – Renfield Lecture – Dr. Sylvia Trent-Adams, Ph.D., Rear Admiral, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, “Diversity and Inclusion in Clinical Research”