What is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion?
Diversity is the process of including and involving people from a range of different social and ethnic backgrounds and of different genders, sexual orientations, economic backgrounds, religions and (dis)abilities.
Equity is a process that recognizes that each person has different circumstances and distributes the resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome by promoting justice, impartiality and fairness within the procedures and processes by institutions or systems.
Inclusion is the practice of welcoming and providing equal access to opportunities and resources for people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalize
Our Vision and Commitment to DEI
The department of Biomolecular Chemistry is …
We are committed to diversity, equity and inclusion because
We believe that all people interested in science regardless of race, ethnicity, sex, physical ability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, country of origin, spiritual beliefs, socioeconomic background, neurodiversity, and physical appearance should have the opportunity to participate in research.
We have partnered with the Integrated Program in Biochemistry here at UW Madison to support diversity, equity and inclusion in the sciences.
UW-Madison Land Acknowledgement
The University of Wisconsin–Madison occupies ancestral Ho-Chunk land, a place their nation has called Teejop (day-JOPE) since time immemorial. In an 1832 treaty, the Ho-Chunk were forced to cede this territory.
Decades of ethnic cleansing followed when both the federal and state government repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, sought to forcibly remove the Ho-Chunk from Wisconsin. This history of colonization informs our shared future of collaboration and innovation. Today, UW–Madison respects the inherent sovereignty of the Ho-Chunk Nation, along with the eleven other First Nations of Wisconsin.