Videos tagged underrepresented
(4) videos
Watch this video
BU Community: The Howard Thurman Center - Embracing Diversity
At the Howard Thurman Center for Race, Culture and Ethnicity, students talk, relax, study, learn about others and more about who they are.
More info
- 162 love it
- 0 comments
- 295 views
Watch this video
Where I'm Coming From: Alicia Wooten
When Alicia Wooten (MED’19) was three years old, doctors told her parents that she had progressive hearing loss. Today the PhD candidate, who works in the pneumonia biology lab on the Medical Campus, studies the ways that host pathogens [...]respond to Streptococcus pneumoniae. While she says lab work will always be harder for people who are deaf, her work is made easier by some very supportive colleagues.
“They’ve become really aware of what I need,†she says. “If I didn’t have a PI that supported me, I would probably have given up. I remember when I joined the lab, we were doing a five-minute American Sign Language lesson for the whole lab. I was teaching them different signs, and then I would go into my PI’s office and he would sign, ‘Hello, Alicia.’ That makes my day.â€
More info
- 98 love it
- 0 comments
- 587 views
Watch this video
Where I'm Coming From: Tyrone Porter
Tyrone Porter grew up in Detroit. At the time, he says, the city was about 75 percent black. Now he’s an associate professor of mechanical engineering in the College of Engineering, where the demographics are very different.
“Once I [...]left the comfort of my black bubble and entered a predominantly white world at the University of Washington I recognized I needed to adapt,†says Porter. “I could not be exclusive. I had to be inclusive and identify both white and black friends, advocates, and allies. Once I opened myself to that philosophy I began to establish relationships with people from all backgrounds. I realized it made me a better, more tolerant person and put me at ease at a predominantly white institution. I have had the same experience at BU identifying white allies at all levels in the university.â€
More info
- 87 love it
- 0 comments
- 455 views
Watch this video
Where I'm Coming From: Merav Opher
Merav Opher studies space physics. It’s a field with very few women, and Opher, a College of Arts & Sciences associate professor of astronomy, feels this lack of diversity deeply. Opher was born in Israel, spent much of her life in Brazil, and [...]came to the United States when she was 29. Even in academia, there are few people with such a diverse cultural background, and fewer women still.
“It’s horrible,†she says of the dearth of women in her field. “It’s really detrimental to the advance of science, the lack of diversity. You can see how when you bring in people that think in a very different way, how they turn the whole box upside down, and then suddenly discoveries are made. And this is really due to people coming from different thinking processes. I think it’s because you have to bring people from different cultural backgrounds, different genders, different fields together. And a lot of science is done with a lack of diversity.â€
More info
- 84 love it
- 0 comments
- 325 views
