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ROOT & SHOOT Travel Awardees at the Plant Biology Meeting in Ottawa
A group of ROOT & SHOOT Travel Awardees joined the Recognition Travel Awardees at the Welcome Breakfast at the Plant Biology Conference in Ottawa.
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Building a diverse and inclusive plant science community
Recently, ROOT & SHOOT participated in a workshop held at the International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR). The focus of the workshop was “Building a Diverse and Inclusive Community through Effective Teaching and Mentoring.” The workshop organizers arranged for an...
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2026 ROOT & SHOOT travel awards now open!
The NSF-funded LEAPS: RCN: ROOT & SHOOT (Rooting Out Oppression Together and SHaring Our Outcomes Transparently) aims to strengthen plant science to become more welcoming to all. Part of this mission involves building strong connections with members of SACNAS, MANRRS, and...
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Social Identity Matters in Mentoring: Applications are NOW OPEN for the Fall SI-MI Mentoring Course
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 this gap, the SI-MI Mentoring Read more…
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SI-MI Facilitator Training Program (FTP) Application – now open through May 8
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. The SI-MI Program includes two Read more…
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ROOT & SHOOT at the Maize Genetics Meeting
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 ROOT & SHOOT Steering Committee Read more…
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ROOT & SHOOT End of Year Update
ROOT & SHOOT Travel Awards We’re happy to share that we received a significant number of applications for the 2026 conference season! Student and mentor pairs, at least one of whom must be a member of SACNAS, AISES, or MANRRS, Read more…
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Experience at the 2025 SACNAS NDiSTEM Conference
By Marge Poma Alarcon This past October, I had the privilege of attending the National Diversity in STEM (NDiSTEM) Conference in Columbus, Ohio, organized by the Society for the Advancement of Chicano and Native American Scientists (SACNAS), where I helped Read more…
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Highlights of Year Four
We initiated this project October 1, 2021, so we are wrapping up our fourth year of activities. One of the most meaningful aspects of this Research Coordinating Networks has been to increase communication and collaboration across the professional society plant Read more…
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Making conferences in the plant sciences more inclusive through community recommendations
ROOT & SHOOT is delighted to share that the first publication from this Research Coordination Network is now online at https://elifesciences.org/articles/106877. This article is the culmination of more than three years effort from the Inclusive Conferences Working Group, a large Read more…