The Los Angeles Council of Black Professional Engineers (LACBPE) will host a meet and greet reception in celebration of Black History Month and Engineers’ Week, which takes place from February 19- 25. The event is scheduled for Tuesday, February 21, at 6 p.m., at Fleming’s Steakhouse in El Segundo.
Scientists who studied a young lupus patient discovered a gene mutation that may lead to the development of better, more detailed treatments for the incurable autoimmune disease.
Apart from the science and medicine, there’s another reason Esther Obeng, M.D., Ph.D., has found a home at St. Jude. After arriving, she learned about the research hospital’s history as the first fully integrated children’s hospital in the South and about its continuing focus in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion.
Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03), Chair of the House Financial Services Diversity and Inclusion Subcommittee, recently introduced a bill (H.R. 8595) to invalidate Executive Order 13950 and preserve diversity and inclusion training programs at federal departments and agencies as well as in the private sector.
There have been repeated stories of the repression of science under this administration. Scientists have been informed not to use this word or that word. The suppression of scientific exploration and publication of new research on climate change. This is all being done under the cover of night. But now we have a story where it is quite public that this administration not only wants to dictate reality, but it wishes to suppress those who contradict them, irrespective of the truth.