Yale Physics hosts #BlackInPhysics Week events
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#BlackInPhysics Week, which will be held on October 25-31, 2020, is “dedicated to celebrating Black physicists, [their] scientific contributions, and revealing a more complete picture of what a physicist looks like”. Yale Physics will be hosting two events for the Yale community in conjunction with #BlackInPhysicsWeek, a panel on “How to Organize a Movement” with three of the organizers of #BlackInPhysics Week including Yale Physics alum Charles D. Brown II, Ph.D. ‘19 (U.C. Berkeley), Dr. Eileen Gonzales (Cornell), and Xandria Quichocho (Michigan State University); and a scientific talk by LaNell Williams (Harvard). Read more. |
Gladney’s essay on “The long agony of racism” published in the Yale Alumni Magazine
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After the brutal death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, America saw an explosion of protest marches across the country. By mid-June, the New York Times reported, demonstrations had taken place in 2,000 cities and towns in all 50 states and in many places abroad. While many protests focused on police violence, the events of the spring have brought to the fore a broader conversation about systemic racism in the United States—a conversation that has been with us for centuries. The Yale Alumni Magazine asked Yale Physics Professor Larry Gladney and two other Yale faculty members to write on this moment in race relations. Gladney, who is also the Phyllis Wallace Dean of Diversity and Faculty Development in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale, published an essay titled “A devastating and ruinous history”. Read more. |