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Formation of the Inclusive Environments and Metrics in Biology Education and Research (iEMBER) Network: Building a Culture of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Rachel E. Tennial

Department of Psychology, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Little Rock, AR 72204

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Erin D. Solomon

Center for Integrative Research on Cognition, Learning, and Education, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130

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Latanya Hammonds-Odie

School of Science and Technology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, GA 30046

^∥These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Gary S. McDowell

Future of Research, Abington, MA 02351

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Department of Biology, Baylor University, Waco, TX 76706

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Alberto I. Roca

DiverseScholar, Irvine, CA 92616

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*Address correspondence to: Jana Marcette (E-mail Address: [email protected]).

Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Harris-Stowe State University, St. Louis, MO 63103

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Published Online:8 Feb 2019https://doi.org/10.1187/cbe.18-03-0042

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© 2019 R. E. Tennial et al. CBE—Life Sciences Education © 2019 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 iEMBER conference activities were funded by National Science Foundation Research Coordination Networks in Biology Undergraduate Education Incubator grant 1624169. We thank the additional NSF RCN-UBE Incubator grant co–principal investigators Dr. Richard Harvey and Dr. Uwe Hilgert for their efforts in conceptualizing and organizing the iEMBER network. We also thank members of the Future of Research board of directors for helpful discussions.