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    Seeking To Spark Conversation, Barrick Hosts Lauded Exhibition

    Jan 07, 2019

    One of the nation’s top art exhibitions opens this week at UNLV’s Barrick Museum of Art, which is taking the opportunity to cement connections to the broader Southern Nevada community.

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    Shots - Health News
    Currently students of color are underrepresented in medical schools, but their numbers are slowly growing.
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    A Push For Diversity In Medical School Is Slowly Paying Off

    Dec 04, 2018
    American medical schools have historically been disproportionately white, but they are starting to attract more diverse students. The change may be the result of a diversity policy with teeth.
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    Education
    Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks at the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies event in May. On Tuesday, the departments of Justice and Education announced that they have retracted documents that advised schools on how they could legal
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    Trump Administration Rescinds Obama-Era Guidance Encouraging Affirmative Action

    Jul 03, 2018
    The departments of Justice and Education have retracted letters and memos suggesting ways schools and colleges can consider race to encourage diversity.
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    Shots - Health News
    Dr. Katie Merriam, an OB-GYN resident in Charlotte, N.C., says she loves her mostly female work environment but also appreciates having male colleagues.
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    Male OB-GYNs Are Rare, But Is That A Problem?

    Apr 12, 2018
    Women outnumber men in obstetrics and gynecology residencies and medical practices in the U.S. Heads of training programs now wonder if they should go out of their way to recruit more men.
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    Art & Design
    The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has worked to make diversity a priority. In recent years, the museum has seen an increase in the percentage of nonwhite visitors.
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    How An Art Museum Is Reaching A More Diverse Audience

    Jan 07, 2018
    The High Museum of Art in Atlanta has undertaken several efforts to increase the proportion of nonwhite visitors. Director Rand Suffolk tells NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro how they did it.
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    Energy
    Welder Stephanie Puckly says she was kept in the office during a summer oil industry internship while male welders were allowed to work in the field.
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    Big Oil Has A Diversity Problem

    Nov 05, 2017
    The business wants to attract more women and minorities, but a history of racism and sexism makes that difficult.
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    The Salt
    Engkas Kosasih prepares popiah, a spring-roll like dish from from Medan. They come either deep-fried or steamed.
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    Indonesian Food Blogger: The Unifying Power Of Cuisine And Social Media

    Nov 03, 2017
    The diverse Southeast Asian country has more than 17,000 islands, a median age of 29 and an expansive fare influenced by many cultures. And the tech-savvy population is reaching out to the world.
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    How Diverse Is The Gaming Industry?

    Oct 12, 2017

    How diverse are our gaming institutions?

    Women of Diversity Productions set out to answer that, with a survey of gender policies at resorts.

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    Report: UNLV One Of The Most Diverse Campuses In The Country

    Sep 12, 2017

    UNLV was named one of the most diverse campuses in the nation by U.S. News and World Report.

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    Is NV Still The 'Mississippi Of The West'?

    Aug 16, 2017

    After a University of Nevada-Reno student’s photo spread across the internet, it painted him as the symbol of hate in America. And, by association, painted Nevada in a like manner.

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    The Two-Way
    Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address of the Google I/O conference, in May.
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    Google Cancels Town Hall After Employee's Controversial Diversity Memo

    Aug 10, 2017
    The meeting had been called to discuss fallout from the memo written by a senior software engineer who complained that "biological causes" explained why women were underrepresented at the tech giant.
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    All Tech Considered
    Student Erin Paeng works on human-robot trust in Harvey Mudd College's Human Experience and Agent Teamwork lab.
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    Colleges Have Increased Women Computer Science Majors: What Can Google Learn?

    Aug 10, 2017
    About half of Harvey Mudd College computer science graduates are women, up sharply in the past decade. It and other schools found success by adjusting their curriculums and making other changes.
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    All Tech Considered
    Danielle Brown speaks during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016. She is Google's new chief diversity officer, a position she previously held at Intel.
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    Is The Memo Controversy A Pivot Point On Diversity For Google?

    Aug 09, 2017
    Once Google is done putting out fires in the wake of a male employee's incendiary memo about gender, the company will have to think about how to tackle its longstanding diversity problem.
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    All Tech Considered
    Google CEO Sundar Pichai says that he supports the right of workers to express themselves but that a senior engineer's memo had gone too far.
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    Google CEO Cuts Vacation Short To Deal With Crisis Over Diversity Memo

    Aug 08, 2017
    CEO Sundar Pichai says that he supported the right of workers to express themselves but that a senior engineer's memo had gone too far. The memo's author says he is weighing legal action.
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    The Two-Way
    Google executives say their company is committed to inclusion, after an engineer's criticisms of its diversity efforts sparked conversations outside the company this weekend.
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    Google Grapples With Fallout After Employee Slams Diversity Efforts

    Aug 07, 2017
    In a 3,300-word document that has been shared across Google's internal networks, an engineer at the company said "biological causes" are part of the reason women aren't represented equally.
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    The Two-Way

    Census Finds A More Diverse America, As Whites Lag Growth

    Jun 22, 2017
    Asian and mixed-race people are the two fastest-growing segments of the U.S. population, the U.S. Census Bureau says. Non-Hispanic whites are the only group to see deaths outpace births.
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    Deceptive Cadence
    Du Yun, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer for music, considers the issues of diversity in classical music.
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    Looking For Women's Music At The Symphony? Good Luck!

    May 05, 2017
    Recent surveys show that less than 2 percent of music performed by American orchestras is by women composers. This year's Pulitzer Prize winner, Du Yun, speaks out on diversity in the concert hall.
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    In 2016, NPR's Human Resources department expanded the options for race and ethnicity with which newsroom employees could identify. (Numbers as of Oct. 31, 2016.)
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    NPR's Staff Diversity Numbers, 2016

    Apr 21, 2017
    Despite the company-wide initiative for diverse hiring, change in the newsroom has been incremental.
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    Diverse UNLV Student Population Can Connect At The Intersection

    Apr 20, 2017

    UNLV takes the wraps off this week on a new one-stop multicultural resource center that’s intended to serve one of the most diverse student populatio

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    The Salt
    Iowa State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences students Liz Hada, left, and Melissa Garcia Rodriguez say they have experienced racial tension in some of their classes, despite feeling generally welcomed by most students and faculty.
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    To Diversify The Farming Landscape, Diversify Who Works It

    Mar 02, 2017
    The people working on farms and elsewhere in agriculture often don't reflect the nation's demographics. Changing that is becoming a priority, in hopes that new people will bring fresh ideas.
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    Why Aren't There More Women In Tech? A Tour Of Silicon Valley's Leaky Pipeline

    Dec 21, 2016
    We start at an after-school program for middle-schoolers and end at tech companies that try to be front-runners on diversity. Where do girls and women drop out from the tech talent pipeline?
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    CSN Panelists Offer Reminder: 'We're A Culture, Not A Costume'

    Oct 31, 2016

    Insensitive portrayals of ethnic and religious groups by some Halloween revelers have spawned a campus-led movement to remind people that cultural appropriation is no treat.

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    Code Switch
    Madina Nalwanga and Lupita Nyong'o in <em>Queen of Katwe</em>, the true story of a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of chess.
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    A Breakthrough Showcase For Black Filmmaking At The Toronto Film Festival

    Sep 19, 2016
    The Toronto International Film Festival's lineup of new movies pushed back against the narrow definition of a "black film" and offered a feast of cinematic stories about black life.
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    The Torch
    Swimmer Cristina Teuscher Fabbri (third from left) with her family and coach John Collins (right) at the 1994 World Championships in Rome.
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    USA Swimming Wants More Diversity In The Pool

    Aug 13, 2016
    The U.S. swimming team competing in Rio is the most diverse yet. But there is still a long way to go before the ranks of swimmers reflect the diversity of the country.
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    Shots - Health News
    The A&E docu-series <em>Born This Way</em> was recently nominated for three Emmys. Sean McElwee (left) Megan Bomgaars, Rachel Osterbach and John Tucker star in the second season which premieres July 26.
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    A Cast With Down Syndrome Brings Fresh Reality To Reality TV

    Jul 22, 2016
    With the Emmy-nominated Born this Way poised to begin its second season July 26, the cast, co-creator and fans explain why the show has become such a hit.
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