diversity equity and inclusion Archives

How skills pursue diversity and inclusion

CERN Courier, July 5, 2024

Sudhir Malik reports on an initiative by the US CMS collaboration to increase opportunities for under-represented students in high-energy physics.

A minute with Martel Walls, lead technician

Martel Walls shares how he loves working with his hands and learning on the job.

Building the quantum workforce

Engineers, physicists, computer scientists and more are needed for the second quantum revolution.

10 inspiring Latinas in STEM you need to know about

From Hip Latina, September 27, 2021: Fermilab’s Jessica Esquivel was featured in Hip Latina to celebrate the achievements and contributions of Latinx people in America and highlight incredible individuals doing amazing work in STEM!

How COVID made physics more accessible

Illustration on purple background of people sitting and typing on computers. Some have visible accommodations (a person with a baby sleeping beside them, a person in a wheelchair, a person with a cat and so on).

Accommodations necessitated by the global pandemic made participation in academic conferences easier for physicists with and without disabilities.

Changing a name without forfeiting credit

A group of U.S. national laboratories, including Fermilab; publishers; journals and other organizations, is making it easier for researchers to update their names on past publications.

Published research name change transgender

From the New York Times, July 28, 2021: On Wednesday, a group of laboratories including Fermilab and major scientific publishers, announced an agreement that aims to simplify the process of applying new names to old papers for transgender scientists by shifting much of the administrative labor from the researcher to the laboratory.

Scientific publishing organizations and national laboratories partner on transgender-inclusive name-change process for published papers

Name changes allow researchers of all genders to own their academic work.

A strong force for inclusion

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Elena Long’s search for community as a trans scientist put her at the forefront of LGBT+ advocacy in physics.

Seeing through walls and breaking down barriers

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Physicists and archaeologists are teaming up to provide research opportunities for Black and Hispanic undergraduates to image an archaeological site in Mexico using muon tomography. Fermilab personnel will help with the project, and Fermilab will also produce the scintillators for use in the muon detector.