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Tag: Black History Month

Building Wakanda: a graduate student’s journey into sports psychology

Posted February 20, 2021 by ScIU Editorial Team

[DJ Purnell is captured from the side, smiling. He is sitting at a panel on advice for applying to graduate school]

This week on the blog, we tackle sports and performance from the perspective of mental health, talking with IU’s DeJon Purnell. Purnell is a Ph.D. student in the Counseling Psychology program in IU’s School of Education, and his specific focus is Sport and Performance Psychology. While much of sports psychology translates directly into counseling the athletes themselves, DJ focuses on bigger-picture issues in sports and performance mental health, such as coaching behaviors and pathways to licensure for practicing sports counselors…

Building Wakanda: a graduate student’s journey into sports psychology

Posted February 22, 2020 by Lana Ruck

A profile of DeJon Purnell in celebration of Black History Month In the USA, sports are important, period. But many of us are aware that America’s cultural obsession with sports is not without its downsides. Still, I know people who are fine with 2020’s Super Bowl mascots (among other things; see The Onion’s recent Tweet),… Read more »

Science as a bridge to barriers in diversity and inclusion

Posted February 15, 2020 by ScIU Editorial Team

Students of diverse backgrounds sitting together

This post is from ScIU’s archives. It was originally published by Alex Moussa-Tooks in February 2019 and has been lightly edited to reflect current events. A look inside the work of Dr. Mary Murphy in celebration of Black History Month Picture this: you’re a Black student on a large college campus. This is your first year…. Read more »

Brewers without borders: Crossing racial divisions in the world of craft beer

Posted February 8, 2020 by ScIU Editorial Team

A beer glass sits on a barrel.

This post is from ScIU’s archives. It was originally published by Lana Ruck in February 2019 and has been lightly edited to reflect current events. A profile of Aaron Ellis in celebration of Black History Month Craft beer: chances are if you’re over 21, you’ve heard about it, drank it, or even tried to brew it… Read more »

Science as a bridge to barriers in diversity and inclusion

Posted February 26, 2019 by Alexandra Moussa-Tooks

Students of diverse backgrounds sitting together

A look inside the work of Dr. Mary Murphy in celebration of Black History Month Picture this: you’re a Black student on a large college campus. This is your first year. One day, you are accosted by a White male slinging racial slurs and threats, as your peers (~70% of whom are White) stare, yet… Read more »

Brewers without borders: Crossing racial divisions in the world of craft beer

Posted February 19, 2019 by Lana Ruck

A beer glass sits on a barrel.

A profile of Aaron Ellis in celebration of Black History Month Craft beer: chances are if you’re over 21, you’ve heard about it, drank it, or even tried to brew it yourself. For anthropologist Aaron Ellis — a brewer, a Ph.D. candidate in IU’s Department of Anthropology, and an IU academic advisor in the departments… Read more »

Interwoven Threads

Posted February 5, 2019 by ScIU Editorial Team

This post is from ScIU’s archives. It was originally published by Liz Rosdeitcher in February 2018 and has been lightly edited to reflect current events. A profile of IU professor Sharlene Newman in celebration of Black History Month Any glance at the demographics tells us that African American women are among the least represented of any group in… Read more »

Interwoven Threads

Posted February 20, 2018 by Liz Rosdeitcher

A profile of IU professor Sharlene Newman in celebration of Black History Month Any glance at the demographics tells us that African American women are among the least represented of any group in STEM disciplines. Such is true in the field of psychological and brain sciences, where Sharlene Newman is the only African American professor… Read more »

Hidden figures, no more

Posted February 28, 2017 by Guest Contributor

Movie Release image of three women, who are the main characters of Hidden Figures.

This is the second installment of ScIU theme posts for Black History Month. The authors are ScIU guest writer Marvin Q. Jones, Jr., a graduate student in IU’s Department of Mathematics from Newport News, VA; and Steve Hussung, also a graduate student in IU’s Department of Mathematics. Check out our other Black History Month post… Read more »

A Black History Month for all of us

Posted February 14, 2017 by Guest Contributor

This is a ScIU guest post by Brett Jefferson, a Ph.D. candidate in IU’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Department of Mathematics.  From Mae Jemison, the first African American woman to travel in space, to Dr. Sylvester James Gates, a theoretical physicist who published the first comprehensive book on supersymmetry, to Marcellus Neal,… Read more »

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