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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">Dear members of the OSU physics and astronomy communities,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">As part of the Strike4BlackLives/ShutDownSTEM/ShutDownAcademia movement on June 10 in support of the Black academic community, department(s) members crowd-sourced a resource
document and created a list of actions that individuals and the departments should take. These documents are now available via the physics department website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#0563C1"><a href="https://physics.osu.edu/aps-idea-osu" title="https://physics.osu.edu/aps-idea-osu"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://physics.osu.edu/aps-idea-osu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">And the astronomy department website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black"><a href="https://astronomy.osu.edu/local-access/inclusion-diversity-and-equity-alliance" title="https://astronomy.osu.edu/local-access/inclusion-diversity-and-equity-alliance">https://astronomy.osu.edu/local-access/inclusion-diversity-and-equity-alliance</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">These web pages also have links to other resources and information about the APS-IDEA network. Many thanks to Terry Bradley and Kirsten Casey for compiling documents, and
to Ruth Leonard and Wayne Schlingman for editing the websites.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">We plan to have a series of town halls in the near future to address the action items in these documents. We are still in the early planning stages; if you are interested
in helping organize town halls, please let us know. I am excited that there has been so much engagement already. Most critically, we plan to have a town hall meeting during the first week of class on anti-Black racism in physics and actions we can do to
combat it. We are aiming to have a town hall on the TEAM-UP report<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(<a href="https://www.aip.org/diversity-initiatives/team-up-task-force" title="https://www.aip.org/diversity-initiatives/team-up-task-force">https://www.aip.org/diversity-initiatives/team-up-task-force</a>)
in September. If you identify as BIPOC and want to communicate issues/concerns/thoughts about topics to be highlighted or how the event can be structured, please let us know. If anyone is interested in helping organize the first two events, please let us
know. By “us”, I mean that you can contact anyone on APS-IDEA:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">Terry Bradley – Staff <br>
Beatriz E. Burrola Gabilondo – Lecturer<br>
Kirsten Casey – Graduate Student <br>
Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay – Post-doctoral Research Fellow<br>
Ami Choi – Post-doctoral Research Fellow<br>
Emilio Codecido – Graduate Student <br>
Amy Connolly – Professor <br>
Donley Cormode – Graduate Student <br>
Ian Dela Cruz – Undergraduate Student, Astro/Physics double major<br>
Simon Filbert – Undergraduate Student, Astro/Physics double major<br>
Johnny Greco – Post-doctoral Research Fellow<br>
Jay Gupta – Associate Professor<br>
Andrew Heckler – Professor <br>
Kevin Ingles – Graduate Student <br>
Ruth Leonard – Staff <br>
Crystal Moloney – Staff <br>
Hannah Parsons – Undergraduate Student, Astro/Physics double major<br>
Jon Pelz – Professor<br>
Annika Peter – Associate Professor, Astro/Physics <br>
Rachel Slaybaugh – Undergraduate Student, Astro/Physics double major<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:HelveticaNeue;color:black">Cheers, stay safe, and have a great weekend,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Annika Peter, PhD<br>
Associate Professor<br>
Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, Department of Physics, and Department of Astronomy<br>
M2016 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210<br>
614-688-3373 Office / 609-306-9749 Mobile<br>
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="mailto:peter.33@osu.edu"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#0563C1">peter.33@osu.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> / </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><a href="http://u.osu.edu/apeter"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:#0563C1">u.osu.edu/apeter</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> <br>
Pronouns: she/her/hers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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