The Science Divisional DEI Committee is a rotating group of undergraduate students, graduate students, staff, and faculty currently led by Pedro Morales-Almazan. Email the committee (pbscidei@ucsc.edu) to set up a meeting.

Science Division DEI Committee Charge

Division of Physical and Biological Sciences Committee on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Charge

Composition:  The committee will be chaired by the associate dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The committee will include five additional faculty members from the division who will self-nominate and be selected by the associate dean and the dean. The committee will consist of two staff members who will self-nominate and be chosen by the associate dean and the dean. The committee will include one undergraduate student and one graduate student who will self-nominate and be selected by the associate dean and the dean.

Appointment Duration:  Committee members will be appointed for two years, with a potential for renewal.

Charge:  The Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Division of Physical and Biological Sciences will do the following:

1)    Identify how structural and systemic racism, sexism, and other forms of bias manifest in the instruction, mentoring, research, staffing, community-building, and overall climate of the division.

2)    Propose actions the division can take to eliminate these biases and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion, for example, through changes in hiring practices and in training on inclusive teaching and mentoring, by incentivizing change through the personnel process, by operationalizing our commitment to the campus’s Principles of Community, and by providing resources and support to groups that are the targets of bias and to individuals (students, faculty, staff) who work to end that bias.

3)    Serve as a central point of coordination and facilitation for anti-bias, diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts taking place at the department, program, and/or staff unit level within the division.

4)    Serve as a central point of coordination when the division is advocating for or working with the central administration or other campus units to eliminate systemic biases outside the division.

5)    Review incidents of bias affecting members of the division and present a yearly report on eliminating discrimination and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion within the division.

Department DEI Information

One of the goals of our committee is to be a liaison with departmental Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committees. Please click on the links below to find contact information for department committee members:

 

Science DEI Committee Members

Click on the names below to find directory information for members of the committee if you wish to meet with anyone individually.

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Dalya Gregorio Chas

Ayyam Ibrahim
I’m a second-year PhD student in the CB3 program at UC Santa Cruz, working in the Brooks and Carpenter labs. My research focuses on RNA modifications in the innate immune system following LPS activation and their implications in chronic inflammatory diseases. As a first-generation college graduate and an underrepresented minority in STEM, I am passionate […]

Audrie Lin
Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology Faculty. My research focuses on global health interventions in low-resource rural settings and urban informal settlements, and I teach a core Research Methods course in the Global and Community Health program. I am excited to continue working toward creating equitable and inclusive opportunities in research and education for our undergraduate and […]

Ari Martinez
I am interested in understanding the causes and consequences of social information for species interactions from the perspectives of behavioral and community ecology. Social information that is transmitted within and among species typically concerns predation risk. What are the roles of different species in providing information about predation risk to the community? What is the […]

Simone Mazza
I’m an assistant project scientist at the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) at University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC). My current physics research plan is mainly focused on the study of lepton flavor universality by the observation of rare pion decays, I’m very involved in an emerging pion decay experiment, the PIONEER experiment, […]

Pedro Morales-Almazan
Morales-Almazán serves as the Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the Physical and Biological Sciences Division24. His teaching interests include Inquiry-Based Learning and technology-enhanced teaching, while his research focuses on Zeta Functions in Number Theory and Quantum Field Theory. Morales-Almazán is known for his engaging teaching style, making mathematics relevant to students’ interests […]

Jeannette Peters
Molecular, Cell, and Developmental Biology Department Undergraduate Advisor. I received my undergraduate and graduate degrees within the Biological Sciences at UCSC and my goal is to help as many students as possible receive the same opportunities that I did and reach all of their goals, both in their academic life and the start of their […]

Cameron Richardson

Laura Rodriguez-Velandia
From Bogotá, Colombia. I performed double major in Chemical Engineering and Marine Biology. Now, I am pursuing a PhD in Chemistry at UCSC. Have always been interested in potential bioactive compounds produced by marine organisms, how they interact with receptors in human cells, and how we can study and use them for treating diseases. Now, […]