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Building Inclusive Stem Collections: Books By Bipoc Scientists, Hilary Wong Oct 2022

Building Inclusive Stem Collections: Books By Bipoc Scientists, Hilary Wong

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From Ho-Hum To Fun: Engaging Audiences With Game-Based Learnin, Lauren Mabry Oct 2022

From Ho-Hum To Fun: Engaging Audiences With Game-Based Learnin, Lauren Mabry

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

Are you ready to transform traditional slideshows and lecture-style presentations into exciting games that will have your audience actively collaborating, exploring, and learning? Let’s investigate multiple free(mium) tools that make it easy! Make sure to have an internet-connected personal device with you to participate in the fun.


Enriching University Of Rochester's Stem Collections With Resources About And By Bipoc Scientists, Susan K. Cardinal Oct 2022

Enriching University Of Rochester's Stem Collections With Resources About And By Bipoc Scientists, Susan K. Cardinal

Upstate New York Science Librarians Conference

You might think that the collections of a major library would be unaffected by cultural prejudices. However, even the University of Rochester's collections are sadly lacking in works by and about scientists of color. Our poster describes our work to rectify this situation in order to inspire current and future BIPOC students to go into STEM fields. One scientist who we feature is Joy Buolamwini, who recently earned her PhD from MIT’s Media Lab. She noticed that analyses of photographs are often biased, so she formed the Algorithmic Justice League to study and correct that problem. Our collections are more …