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SUMMARY:Managing Inclusive Excellence in Academia
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20230320T160000
UID:2026-04-29-12-59-32@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260429T125932
Description:About the Seminar\n\nThe Open Chemistry Collaborative in Divers
 ity Equity (OXIDE) is aimed at institutional reform so as to lower inequit
 able barriers hindering the success of faculty from diverse groups. We imp
 lement the \"top-down\" hypothesis by asserting that academic middle manag
 ers---namely\, department heads and chairs---held accountable for diversit
 y and inclusion will make sustained and significant improvements in the re
 presentation and climate of their deportments. The collaborative itself is
  a partnership with the department heads of research-active chemistry depa
 rtments\, social scientists and other key stakeholders.  The lowering of 
 these barriers increases the likelihood that individuals already in the te
 nure pipeline will have equitable chances of success and thereby leads to 
 changes in faculty demographics closer to those of the broader U.S. popula
 tion. The creation of a more equitable climate is also expected to encoura
 ge more disadvantaged students to enter academic careers in the chemical s
 ciences. We will report on OXIDE\\'s approaches to increase awareness of e
 ffective policies and practices that decrease inequitable barriers and imp
 rove the diversity climate in research-active chemistry departments. We wi
 ll discuss how these findings can inform the intentional management of inc
 lusive excellence\, and why the lens of discipline-based diversity (DBDR) 
 research is needed in chemistry. [Acc. Chem. Res. 2023\, 10.1021/acs.accou
 nts.2c00797]\n\nAbout the Speaker \n\nDr. Rigoberto Hernandez is the Gomp
 f Family Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Johns Hopkins Uni
 versity\, and the Director of the Open Chemistry Collaborative in Diversit
 y Equity (OXIDE). He is also a Professor in the Departments of Chemical an
 d Biomolecular Engineering\, and Materials Science and Engineering at John
 s Hopkins University. Before joining Hopkins in 2016\, he was a Professor 
 in the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Georgia Tech for 20 years. 
 He was born in Havana\, Cuba and is a U.S. Citizen by birthright. He holds
  a B.S.E. in Chemical Engineering and Mathematics from Princeton Universit
 y (1989)\, and a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California\, Be
 rkeley (1993). He is a theoretical and computational chemist who originate
  the field of chemical dynamics in complex environments (through a biennia
 l Telluride Workshop since 2001). Applications include colloidal suspensio
 ns\, sustainable nanotechnologies\, protein folding and rearrangement\, au
 tonomous computing machines\, and energetic formulations. His group’s re
 search is presently supported by the NSF\, the DOE and the Sloan Foundatio
 n.\n\nDr. Hernandez is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF
 ) CAREER Award (1997)\, Research Corporation Cottrell Scholar Award (1999)
 \, the Alfred P. Sloan Fellow Award (2000)\, a Humboldt Research Fellowshi
 p (2006-07)\, the ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Ca
 reers in the Chemical Sciences (2014)\, the CCR Diversity Award (2015)\, t
 he RCSA Transformative Research and Exceptional Education (TREE) Award (20
 16)\,  the Herty Medal (2017)\, the Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for 
 Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences (2018)\, and the RCSA IMPACT 
 Award (2020).  He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advance
 ment of Science (AAAS\, 2004)\, the American Chemical Society (ACS\, 2010)
 \, the American Physical Society (APS\, 2011)\, and the Royal Society of C
 hemistry (FRSC\, 2020). He was a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar in 2015-2
 016. He previously served as the District IV Director on the American Chem
 ical Society Board of Directors (2014-2019). He currently serves on the Sl
 oan MPHD Advisory Committee (since 2013)\, the Chair-Elect of the APS Divi
 sion of Chemical Physics\, and as the Chair of the AAAS Committee on Oppo
 rtunities in Science (COOS\, 2022-2024).\n\n&nbsp\; 4:00 pm
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