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We are excited to announce that a group of seven plant science organizations has been awarded a five-year grant through the NSF’s LEAPS [LEAding cultural change through Professional Societies (LEAPS) of Biology] program. This Research Coordination Network (RCN) includes American Phytopathological Society (APS), American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB), American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT), Botanical Society of America (BSA), International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI), Maize Genetics Cooperation (MGC), North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC), as well as other organizations that serve marginalized scientists.
Mentoring has the power to shape who stays, succeeds, and thrives in science, yet many mentors have never received formal training on how social identity, lived experience, and systemic inequities influence mentoring relationships. To address Read more…
The SI-MI Mentoring (Social Identity Matters In Mentoring) Program has been developed by a cross-Society group of plant scientists at all career stages with guidance and feedback from mentoring experts at CIMER and Movement Consulting. Read more…
The Maize Genetics Meeting recently wrapped up in Cologne, Germany. We had four travel awardee pairs attend the conference (some first-time conference attendees!). We also had a poster on the Si-Mi Mentoring Program, presented by Read more…