The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) has named Padmini Roy-Dixon as Economic Development Director & Regional Innovation Officer. In this role, she will provide leadership for the regional planning organization to direct and develop economic development and strategic infrastructure programming and lead Central Ohio’s innovation ecosystem.
At their Oct. 19 meeting, Highland County commissioners Jeff Duncan, Terry Britton and David Daniels heard a request for $20,000 to put toward a software progra
Shirley Malcom, senior advisor to the CEO and director of the SEA Change program at AAAS, is being honored this week by her alma mater with a building dedication – the first building at Penn State to bear the name of a Black woman.
As a growing chorus of voices calls for systemic change to address the systemic problems of sexism and racism in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM), the SEA Change initiative at the American Association for the Advancement of Science aims to support educational institutions as they transform into diverse, equitable, and inclusive spaces.
SEA (STEMM Equity Achievement) Change was formally launched by AAAS in 2017 but is the culmination of a career s work in the making: that of the initiative s director, Shirley Malcom.
The initiative has its history in the Athena SWAN charter, established in the United Kingdom in 2005 to boost the ranks of women in science, but it also draws upon long-standing collaborations to diversify the scientific enterprise. When Paula Rayman was investigating a home in the United States for an adaptation of Athena SWAN, she knew that Shirley Malcom, with whom she had collaborated on diversity efforts since the 1980s, was the r