Understanding and Offsetting Financial Barriers for Black Students in Science, Engineering, and Medicine Programs, Partnerships, and Pathways: Proceedings of a Workshop (2022) / Chapter Skim
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. • Independent funding for students provides them with the freedom to chart their own course, rather than be con strained by the principal investigator in their laboratories (Dr.
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CONGRESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE: REP. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON Congresswoman Johnson reaffirmed her commitment to increasing the participation of Black students in STEM education and expressed her belief that the well-being and success of future generations depend on it.
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At Duke University, she enrolled in policy courses that made her consider such questions as who determines which projects are funded, what scientists owe taxpayers for providing public support, and how social factors influence patient care. "I've been asking these questions for 20 years," she continued.
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Anything we can do to help liberate them from these forces and connect with each other will go a long way toward their eventual success." Independent funding to students provides them flexibility and independence if they do not connect with their principal investigator, if their family circumstances change, or if they want to change course for another reason. More could be done with NIH to demonstrate the value of finding diverse solutions to critical problems and being inclusive in research, she suggested.
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"The more we can make up-and-coming minority clinicians and scientists and engineers visible to youth behind them, the more success they will have," she commented. She recognized the need to avoid pulling Black professionals in many different directions -- doing double or triple duty when they are expected to represent every minority cause while also doing their bench work -- but making their accomplishments visible.
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McMurry-Heath to expand on her belief that "science is the social justice issue of our age." Dr. McMurry-Heath replied, "If we look at key levers for poverty reduction and opportunity expansion, it is things like clean air and water, access to nutritious food for children, and freedom from illness.
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Chetty's findings that interventions will not have lasting impacts unless external forces that serve as barriers are removed. Referring to his comments about segregation, she noted that some people generationally talk about what was lost with integration, such as Black businesses and doctors.
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Cato Laurencin (Roundtable chair) thanked the participants and closed out the workshop by commenting on the great ideas that came out of it, including the need to create lasting solutions.
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