FW: Welcome to the APS-IDEA Network!

Mon Jun 29 09:54:42 EDT 2020

Dear Colleagues,

Please join me in congratulating Annika Peter and her entire team, which include students, staff and faculty from Physics (Terry Bradley, Beatriz E. Burrola Gabilondo, Kirsten Casey, Chandrodoy Chattopadhyay, Ami Choi, Emilio Codecido, Amy Connolly, Donley Cormode, Ian Dela Cruz, Simon Filbert, Johnny Greco, Jay Gupta, Andrew Heckler, Kevin Ingles, Ruth Leonard, Crystal Moloney, Hannah Parsons, Jon Pelz, Annika Peter, Rachel Slaybaugh) for being chosen as one of the APS-IDEA teams.

Quoting from the APS-IDEA website: https://www.aps.org/programs/innovation/fund/idea-physics.cfm

“The American Physical Society Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Allicance (APS-IDEA) is a new, community-wide effort to work with the physics community to strengthen its efforts to improve equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI). Funded by the APS Innovation Fund in 2019, APS-IDEA will convene representatives from about 30 physics departments, laboratories, and research collaborations to attend an initial workshop June 12-13, 2020, establish an online learning community, and, more broadly, form a community of practice with the goal of transforming the culture of physics. As in any emerging subfield of physics, progress towards a more inclusive physics community will be accelerated by collaboration, sharing of promising practices, and grounding the work in research. APS-IDEA was created to support the physics community’s efforts to improve EDI.”

It is efforts like these that will help in moving us to a more inclusive and equitable department.

All the best,

Brian and Michael

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Michael G. Poirier, Professor
Department of Physics, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry (by courtesy)
Ohio State University, 1040 Physics Research Building
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From: "Peter, Annika H." <apeter at physics.osu.edu>
Date: Friday, June 26, 2020 at 3:54 PM
To: "poirier.18 at osu.edu" <poirier.18 at osu.edu>
Subject: FW: Welcome to the APS-IDEA Network!

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

From: <brown at aps.org> on behalf of APS IDEA <idea at aps.org>
Date: Wednesday, June 3, 2020 at 7:55 PM
To: "Peter, Annika H." <apeter at physics.osu.edu>, Edmund Bertschinger <Edbert at mit.edu>
Subject: Welcome to the APS-IDEA Network!

Dear Annika,

The APS-IDEA Application Review Committee has reviewed your application to join the APS-IDEA network. Following this review, we are excited to inform you that your application has been approved. Congratulations!

The committee was very impressed with your application, and believes that your team would be an excellent addition to our network.  We’d like to share some of their feedback with you, as well as the next steps for engaging with APS-IDEA:

Feedback Summary:

This is a strong application from a department with substantial experience and strong commitment to EDI. The mentoring team reflects the stakeholders well. The team’s candor is appreciated and indicates a good understanding where to focus efforts. The team is ready to get greater buy-in from faculty for next steps. Welcome to the network!

If you have any questions or would like to discuss the feedback, we would be happy to set up a phone conversation with Ed Bertschinger (Edbert at mit.edu<mailto:Edbert at mit.edu>), the point of contact and chair of the review for your application. Simply let us know potential dates and times that would work for you.

Next Steps:

  *   Join the APS-IDEA mailing list: If you have not already done so, please have each member of your team join the APS-IDEA mailing list on our website<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.aps.org/programs/innovation/fund/idea.cfm__;!!KGKeukY!m3y0VqwrQ14XdsZ8KswG0XRLvNJNAcEy0cRYtesy3zl-lvYJvt2aS4Jv09v_OWFk$>. We’ll be pushing project updates and opportunities through this mailing list first.
  *   RSVP for the Virtual kickoff: We are planning a virtual kickoff meeting on June 12, from 12:30-5:00p ET,  which a subset of your team should plan to attend.

     *   Due to the strong interest in APS-IDEA --- we will host 50 teams at the June 12 workshop --- we are limiting the number of attendees per team to three (3).
     *   You should receive a meeting RSVP form<https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/info.aps.org/aps-idea-2020__;!!KGKeukY!m3y0VqwrQ14XdsZ8KswG0XRLvNJNAcEy0cRYtesy3zl-lvYJvt2aS4Jv0yFXrHLm$> via email shortly. Please begin identifying which three (3) team members will attend the virtual meeting and have them fill out the RSVP form.
     *   We will be in touch with the meeting agenda and zoom meeting connection information in the next week.

  *   Work with your entire team to complete the pre-work<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/drive.google.com/open?id=1kMc0VxUHmLFAkCw6W__PcdQeubBPnneE__;!!KGKeukY!m3y0VqwrQ14XdsZ8KswG0XRLvNJNAcEy0cRYtesy3zl-lvYJvt2aS4Jv098u27Y_$> for the June 12 workshop.

If you have any questions about the project, please check out our website, or send us an email. We look forward to partnering with you to make physics a more diverse, equitable and inclusive place.

Best wishes,

The APS-IDEA Steering Committee

Ed Bertschinger

Erika Brown

Michelle Lollie

Jesús Pando

Monica Plisch

Geoff Potvin

Erin Scanlon

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