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NEST 2014: Views from the Trainees—Talking About What Matters in Efforts to Diversify the STEM Workforce

Address correspondence to: Andrew G. Campbell (E-mail Address: [email protected]).

*Department of Molecular Microbiology & Immunology, Brown IMSD Program, and Brown MARC Program, Division of Biology & Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912

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Rachel Skvirsky

IMSD Program, College of Science & Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA 02125-3393

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Henry Wortis

Department of Integrative Physiology & Pathobiology, Graduate Program in Immunology, and Tufts PREP Program, Tufts University School of Medicine and the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Boston, MA 02111

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Sheila Thomas

Harvard Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Holyoke Center, Cambridge, MA 02138

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Ichiro Kawachi

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Harvard IMSD Program, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115

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Christine Hohmann

Department of Biology and RISE Program, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD 21251

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Published Online:13 Oct 2017https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.14-04-0068

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Vol. 13, No. 4

December 01, 2014

573-738

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© 2014 A. G. Campbell et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2014 The American Society for Cell Biology. This article is distributed by The American Society for Cell Biology under license from the author(s). It is available to the public under an Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 Unported Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0).

The authors thank Ms. Jennifer Daly for administrative and editorial assistance and Ms. Karen Ball for administrative assistance. We also thank Liza Cariaga-Lo, Laura Liscum, and Elizabeth Solomon for their roles as group facilitators. The authors are indebted to all of the trainees who attended the 2014 NEST Retreat and made this report possible by sharing their views. The report was assembled by and represents the interpretation of the authors. This article and the NEST Retreat were supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers R13GM106577 and R25GM083270 to A.G.C., 5R25GM58904 to C.H., R25GM076321 to R.S., 2R25GM055353-13 to I.K., and T32AI007077 and R25 GM066567 to H.W.

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