Call to Action documents and future town halls

[Peter, Annika H.]

Dear members of the OSU physics and astronomy communities,

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:

https://physics.osu.edu/aps-idea-osu

And the astronomy department website:
https://astronomy.osu.edu/local-access/inclusion-diversity-and-equity-alliance

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.

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 (https://www.aip.org/diversity-initiatives/team-up-task-force) 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:

Terry Bradley – Staff
Beatriz E. Burrola Gabilondo – Lecturer
Kirsten Casey – Graduate Student
Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay – Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Ami Choi – Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Emilio Codecido – Graduate Student
Amy Connolly – Professor
Donley Cormode – Graduate Student
Ian Dela Cruz – Undergraduate Student, Astro/Physics double major
Simon Filbert – Undergraduate Student, Astro/Physics double major
Johnny Greco – Post-doctoral Research Fellow
Jay Gupta – Associate Professor
Andrew Heckler – Professor
Kevin Ingles – Graduate Student
Ruth Leonard – Staff
Crystal Moloney – Staff
Hannah Parsons – Undergraduate Student, Astro/Physics double major
Jon Pelz – Professor
Annika Peter – Associate Professor, Astro/Physics
Rachel Slaybaugh – Undergraduate Student, Astro/Physics double major


Cheers, stay safe, and have a great weekend,

Annika Peter, PhD
Associate Professor
Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, Department of Physics, and Department of Astronomy
M2016 Physics Research Building, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210
614-688-3373 Office / 609-306-9749 Mobile
peter.33 at osu.edu<mailto:peter.33 at osu.edu> / u.osu.edu/apeter<http://u.osu.edu/apeter>
Pronouns: she/her/hers


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