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    The RIOS Institute Strategic Plan
    The Institute for a Racially Just, Inclusive, and Open STEM Education (RIOS Institute) is a virtual synthesis center led by a diverse set of individuals at the interface of open education, STEM...
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    Exploring EnvironmenATL Justice with Data Analytics and Visualization
    Basic data handling and data analysis skills are introduced to visualize and analyze ‘big data.’ Environmental justice is introduced to give students an understanding of tools and strategies to...

    Keywords: social justiceenvironmental justiceatlantaHBCUsCulturally responsive science teachingenvironmental racismenvironmental injustice

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    Graphing and mapping patterns of air quality in Los Angeles, California through an environmental justice lens.
    Air quality is an environmental issue that impacts everyone in Los Angeles. This activity presents current popular press articles about air pollution and environmental justice and maps and graphs...
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    Assessing Socioeconomic Trends in Tree Cover and Human Health in Urban Environments
    In this exercise, students use a combination of publicly available data and tree cover data that they generate using iTree Canopy to test whether tree cover is equitably distributed within the city...

    Keywords: social justiceSimple Linear Regressionenvironmental justiceGeographic Information System (GIS)Using ExcelConnection to PlaceredliningEcosystem Servicesurban tree coverurban environments

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    Data on Dead Zones and a Scientist Spotlight Featuring Benjamin Negrete, Jr.
    In this lesson, students plot data and interpret graphs of the metabolic responses of fish to hypoxic conditions. Then, students view and reflect on an interview with fish ecophysiologist Benjamin...

    Keywords: fishgraphinggraph interpretationhuman-environmental interactionsdata literacysocial justicemarineCODAP

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    Small is Beautiful: OER for Cultural Change in a STEM Institution
    This report serves as a resource for faculty, staff, and students interested in co-creating Open Education Resources (OERs). In particular, we embrace OERs as an invitation to co-create, revise, ...
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    The Legacy of Redlining in Oakland, CA
    The issues of redlining and environmental justice will be introduced and used as a framework for a number of topics in the third part of the semester in a non-majors Environmental Science course.

    Keywords: environmental scienceenvironmental justiceredliningenvironmental racism

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    Salmon, Society, and Success: A case study on the intersections of colonialism, ecological degradation, and the power of social action.
    Using a case study approach, this lesson examines colonialism as an ongoing force affecting nature, culture, and society by focusing on decades of tribally led efforts resulting in recent federal...

    Keywords: ecologyglobal changehuman-environmental interactionsenvironmental justice4DEE Frameworkenvironmental racismsocial and environmental justice

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    Exploring Health Inequities and Redlining
    For this assignment, students will investigate relationships between historic redlining data and modern statistics of human health.

    Keywords: diseasehealthsocial justicepublic healthData science for Biologistredliningchronic diseasesocial vulnerability

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    Revealing Hidden Figures in Natural History Collections Working Group 2023 Update!
    Our 2023 BIOME Lightning Presentation sharing updates from the Hidden Figures Working Group including the first two published modules!

    Keywords: social justicenatural history collectionshidden figuresbiome23biome2023

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    Science Sprints for Undergraduate Research Days
    After participating in the 2021 Science Sprint working group, I planned and executed a one-day Science Sprint focused on exploring urban ecology and social and environmental justice. Specifically,...

    Keywords: Science Sprint

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    For a Racially-Just, Inclusive, Open, STEM education: The RIOS Institute imagines an Open Education as the radical idea that education should be affordable, accessible, equitable, inclusive, and relevant to everyone
    As we engage in Open STEM Education, “Open for Whom?” becomes an increasingly urgent question. Why should we invest in an education that is free, if it does not attend to the inclusion of...

    Keywords: social justiceriosNABT 2022

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    Uncovering Hidden Figures of Natural History Collections Using Digital Data Sleuthing & Storytelling
    In this presentation we will introduce a series of modules meant to train the next generation of scientists to be data sleuths and storytellers, engaging learners in authentic research experiences...

    Keywords: natural history museumssocial justicedigitized natural history collectionsLDC2023hidden figures

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    Community Conversation: OER for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in STEM Classrooms
    Follow the link to the webinar video, "OER for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in STEM Classrooms". In this conversation, bringing in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to the classroom was discussed...
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    Hewlett Foundation - Bates Final Evaluation Report 2021
    Evaluation findings of Hewlett Foundation award to Bates College

    Keywords: QUBES HubSTEM EvaluationSCORE Network

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    Resource list for inclusive teaching in STEM (HHMI)
    A resource collection created for HHMI BioInteractive to guide the development of teaching resources aligned with principles of equity and inclusion.

    Keywords: education researchbibliographyreferencesdecolonizing

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    2019-Banuelos_Danet_Flores_Ramos-Epidemiological_Math_Model_Approach_To_Political_System_with_Three_Parties
    A nonlinear compartmental model is derived to study the movement between classes of voters with the assumption of a constant population that is homogeneously mixed.

    Keywords: politicsparametersvotingcompartment modelepidemiological modelequilibriathree-party system

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    SCORE - Network for an Open and Accessible Biology Education: The promise of equity and the challenge of sustainability (RCU-UBE Introduction)
    The mission of the SCORE-UBE Network is to help our Network participants achieve their sustainability and broader impact goals by working together to amplify the value and reach of open education...

    Keywords: RCN-UBE Introduction

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    Evaluation of DEIJ in Lectures of Junior Year Science Undergraduate Course
    Diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice, DEIJ, is important for both students and faculty as they improve learning outcomes and elicit professional competency respectively. DEIJ...

    Keywords: stempedagogyArticleUndergraduateOpen Sourcescienceevaluationneurobiologythe role of active learning in retention and engagementFacultyAnalysismethod#DEI-J-ADEIJinterdisplinaryjunorlearning spacesadditional support learning systemenhancement

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    Open Practices Learning Community Curriculum
    This is a learning community curriculum designed to engage participants in discussions, short readings and mini-exercises to explore basic tools for Open Educational Practices (OEP)

    Keywords: s-jediopen licensing

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