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“I Have Skin in the Game:” UW’s First Black Woman Professor of Medicine Works to Diversify Life Sciences

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For Angela Byars-Winston, becoming the first Black tenure-track, full-professor in the UW-Madison Department of Medicine in September was just another stepping stone in her career.

As a member of the National Academy of Sciences Higher Education and Workforce Development Board, a 2011 selectee for the Obama administration’s Winning the Future initiative as Champion of Change, and a recipient of a  $1.4 million grant from the National Institute of Health to research the impact of diversity awareness on mentor-mentee relationships in STEM,  Byars-Winston has no shortage of accomplishments.

After UW-Madison climate survey results, campus reacts

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For some UW-Madison students, last week’s campus-wide climate survey results were no surprise.

Survey data showed that while 81 percent of UW-Madison’s overall student population often feel welcome on campus, just 69 percent of LGBQ students, 67 percent of students with a disability and 65 percent of black students feel similarly.

Student tells diversity chief that Latinos feel left out at UW-Madison

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“Latino students, documented and undocumented, feel left out,” MollyJo Bautch said during the question-and-answer period following a informational presentation on a federal program that has protected undocumented students from deportation. “What steps are you taking to bridge the gap and reach out?”

Officials ask UW-Madison community to join in improving campus climate

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Improving the climate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for underrepresented and disadvantaged students is going to rely on efforts in departments, classrooms and social circles around campus, officials told a luncheon gathering Tuesday at the school’s 2017 Diversity Forum.

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