We’re learning more and more about how sense of belonging can impact students from underrepresented groups in engineering and other STEM disciplines. Most times interventions are focused on the students alone. Institutions should focus more on making sure their climates are inclusive of the diverse students they serve (or would like to serve) and on educating students as “whole people.” In this episode I speak with Dr. Sossena Wood, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Biomedical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, as she discusses her experiences in not just finding, but making community in her undergraduate and graduate programs, and how this often extends beyond the campus and beyond her identities. We also talk about the importance of inclusion in engineering research and how diverse perspectives improve neuroimaging solutions in her research lab.
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