Getting Started
This list of resources and organizations is intended to support the College of Science's work to support equity, inclusion, diversity, and justice in our communities and practices.
The list is not comprehensive, and the resources inevitably reflect the biases of the various creators. They are intended to provide a starting point to explore the wide variety of resources within the Physics and STEM communities. This page will be continuously updated and feedback is welcome! If you're looking for more resources or for something different, please reach out to Jodi Bolognese at j.bolognese@northeastern.edu.
For more anti-racism resources in STEM fields, please check out our Diversity and Anti-Racism in STEM page.
For more anti-racism resources and ways to get involved at Northeastern and beyond, please check out our Anti-Racism guide.
Organizations
Below are a selection of organizations to support students, researchers, and faculty diversity and social justice efforts in Engineering. This is not a comprehensive list. Find organizations across STEM fields.
At Northeastern:
Student Groups and Organizations at Northeastern:
Beyond Northeastern:
- ARL Network: Academic and Research Leadership Network For minority engineers underrepresented in academia, industry, and government laboratories whose careers involve a strong focus on research
- Particles for Justice Particles for Justice is a group of people and every single member whose name appears on any given document serves an essential role in our work. We conceive of ourselves as a consensus-based, non-hierarchical group. We are diverse in ethno-racial and national background, gender identity, and current career status, and we treat each other respectfully and equally. This organizational structure itself is an action against the fundamentally unequal groups, organizations, collaborations, and departments we often find ourselves in.
Resources
- Why we need to keep talking about equality in physicsPhysics World article from 2019 outlines the challenge and consequences of lack of equality in the physics field, as well as historical and systemic context for the issues and best practices to consider.
- 10 simple rules for building an antiracist labAn article written by Dr. V. Bala Chaudhary and Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe published in PLoS Computational Biology in October 2020.
- The GazetteThe newsletter of the APS Committee on the Status of Women in Physics (CSWP) and the Committee on Minorities (COM).
- Black in Physics Wikithon ResourcesIncludes links to collections of profiles for Black physicists, as well as tips for finding information on individuals.
- HERstories video from AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers)Women physicists from around the world share their personal experiences - why they became physicists, challenges they've overcome to pursue careers in physics, and words of encouragement and wisdom for aspiring women physicists.
- lgbt+physicsCommunity-driven organization serving sexual and gender minorities in physics. Includes a best practices guide for physics departments, links to all kinds of resources, an out list, and much more.
- LGBT+ Physicists (APS)APS (American Physical Society)'s provided list of resources and opportunities supporting LGBT+ people in physics. Site highlights findings from 2016 report: LGBT+ Climate in Physics.
- Minorities in PhysicsAPS (American Physical Society)'s provided list of resources and opportunities supporting minorities in physics.
- National Mentoring CommiteeFree program from APS that facilitates mentoring relationships between African American, Hispanic American, and Native American undergraduate physics students and local physics mentors.
- TEAM-UP ProjectThe AIP National Task Force to Elevate African American Representation in Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy (TEAM-UP) spent two years investigating the reasons for the persistent underrepresentation of African Americans in physics and astronomy and produced a report with its findings.
- Women in PhysicsAPS (American Physical Society) provided list of resources and opportunities supporting women in physics.
Take Action
Reading, listening, and supporting the STEM-related organizations and initiatives included on this page are a great start.
Want to do more? Check out the anti-racism take action page for other ways you can fight racism, including voting, volunteering, keeping up with the conversation, attending campus events, plus training and organizations beyond STEM that you can get involved with.