‘BIPOC’ and ‘LGBTQ+’ Applicants Sought For Earthquake Research Fellowships
‘BIPOC’ and ‘LGBTQ+’ applicants to a geoscience fellowship will be given ‘priority,’ according to the taxpayer-funded research center. University response: Following publication of the article, the University of Oregon said the listing at ProFellow is ‘outdated’ and asked the database to ‘correct’ or remove the listing.
A taxpayer-funded geoscience research center is specifically seeking applications from racial and sexual minorities for its fellowships.
The Cascadia Region Earthquake Science Center (CRESCENT) is currently offering grants of up to $1,000 to support “U.S. graduate students and postdocs pursuing careers in earthquake science.”
The professional development grants are awarded “twice yearly…with priority given to BIPOC, Latinx, LGBTQ+, first-generation students, and those attending or presenting at their first in-person event,” according to its listing on ProFellow. BIPOC means “black, indigenous, and people of color.”
Curiously, the explicit discriminatory language is not present on the University of Oregon-linked center’s public facing website.
“Preference will also be given to first-time conference or event attendees, those attending in-person, and those presenting,” the center’s fellowship states.
The included language is relatively benign:
CRESCENT offers fellowships to graduate students and postdoctoral scholars for travel to conferences, workshops, or training courses focused on professional development. This effort seeks to help candidates strengthen the presentation of their skills and accomplishments in anticipation of entering the workforce. Appropriate professional development events should provide information, skill development, and networking opportunities that help participants prepare for careers in earthquake science
However, applicants are also encouraged to discuss “How receiving the fellowship would reduce barriers to participation in the conference or event.”
Furthermore, the fellowship is listed under the center’s page about promoting “Geoscience education and inclusion.”
The “mission statement” for this “pillar” of the center’s work says “[p]rogress on the challenges facing earthquake hazards research, both in the short- and long-term, requires concerted focus on preparing and diversifying the next generation workforce.”
Specifically, this DEI initiative focuses on “providing research and training opportunities for aspiring geoscientists from minoritized and other underrepresented groups.”
The geoscience center also offers other diversity initiatives that are clearly focused on minorities.
The center lists other grants and mentoring opportunities that help it “[t]o achieve our vision of a diverse future geoscience workforce.”
To no surprise, the earthquake research center also lists its own land acknowledgment and links to that of partner organizations, including Oregon State University, Purdue University, and Western Washington University.
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No. Just NO, Racist bigoted swine, Cut all their funding and kick them out onto the street. That is the only language they understand.
Four years ago, the NSF-funded National Radio Astronomy Observatory produced a program “for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+” called “Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum.” Apparently some people who think they have a right to discriminate also think they have a right to choose which combination of identity groups is privileged.
I guess that want to see if “the earth moved”….
As a geologist, it’s not my fault if they take for granite that I share their sediments.
Your adamantine views really rock.
I really don’t give a schist what they think.
That’s very gneiss of you.
Thank you for shaling.
Demented idiots all.
Cut off their $$$ and listen to their howls, and make sure the general public knows why.
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The systemic racism injected into society by the Democrat socialists is dug in like a tick.
Diversity in science resides in the brains, not the skin.
Defund AND prosecute.
Aw, c’mon. Don’t we need to know how earthquakes affect the differently abled, differently sexed, differently colored, yada, yada, yada? If earth tremors discriminate, isn’t it better to find out now than when the sirens start going off and next door’s chimneys come through the roof?
It’s only fair.
It’s common knowledge that earthquakes disproportionately harm the listed subgroups.
Caucasians and Asians are usually let off easily by earthquakes and tremors.
In fact, earthquakes ignore white and Asian neighborhoods and head right toward BIPOC and other marginalized communities. LGBTQQ+2S BIPOC communities are always worst hit.