{"id":196,"date":"2023-03-10T14:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/idea\/?p=196"},"modified":"2023-03-10T14:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T19:20:00","slug":"idea-newsletter-march-10-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.geol.umd.edu\/idea\/idea-newsletter-march-10-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"IDEA Newsletter March 10, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-196\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-196-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-196-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-196-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_text panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" >\t\t\t<div class=\"textwidget\"><p><b><i>IDEA action items<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please fill out your lab group code of conduct using our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1A49BdcuwcsxeyYaq9OdKjEfcuG8EdBnb\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=101297823679554602000&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">template<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">! Discuss this as a group and consider posting it on your lab websites &#8211; this is a great way to show prospective students that our labs are welcoming spaces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Have you done any exciting outreach or DEI work recently? Please let us know by filling out <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1ocARNeqeHlYI2o8F1PS_jR-z9osgX7Se3yQlKpTHSoc\/edit#gid=0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this table<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">! Examples include: interviews with media, work with K-12 students, Maryland Day exhibits, Campus DEI committees<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Progress this month<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Field trips\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Compiled a list of possible field trip locations<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Selected three field trips for semester<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Build minority \/ outreach \/ etc speaker list for Colloquium<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Removed deadlinks from IDEA website.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Updated the contact page on IDEA website<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><i>Upcoming events:<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Maryland Day on April 29th (Sat)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you presenting at Maryland Day?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Consider adding spanish text to your exhibits! Karla has kindly offered to help with translation and asks that you send any text well in advance. <strong>Deadline: April 7th<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Please send us your photographs of you in the field, in the lab, and at conferences so we can create a poster: \u201cWhat does it mean to be a geologist?\u201d <strong>Deadline: April 7th<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>DEI in the news: Happy International Women\u2019s Day!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several graduate and undergraduate student women in our department have been in the news recently! Read more about their accomplishments here:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eos.org\/articles\/a-tiny-new-device-could-help-find-extraterrestrial-life\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/eos.org\/articles\/a-tiny-new-device-could-help-find-extraterrestrial-life<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v16\/19\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v16\/19<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/orbitrap-laser-alien-life\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/orbitrap-laser-alien-life\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cmns.umd.edu\/news-events\/news\/major-north-american-oil-source-yields-clues-one-earths-deadliest-mass-extinctions\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/cmns.umd.edu\/news-events\/news\/major-north-american-oil-source-yields-clues-one-earths-deadliest-mass-extinctions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b><i>DEI reading discussion: Dealing with failure<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nature Reviews Chemistry: <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Need to Normalize Failure\u201d https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1XhXEvTYMdJfGUicPoVRzLKOQlq8WWbUx\/view?usp=share_link<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Failure is an important part of the process of science\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the ubiquity of failure, more than 70% of researchers experience imposter syndrome\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors shared CVs of failure\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authors suggest that students and faculty should find opportunities to talk openly about failure and how to use failure as an opportunity for reflection, for example:<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Regular one-on-one meetings where failure and success are discussed<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Panels, workshops, and outreach activities\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">IDEA meeting discussion of the paper:\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Examples of how to cope with failure would have been helpful; we came up with some of our own examples\u00a0<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cLife affirmation\u201d in which you do something fun or celebratory after a failure to remember that there is a lot more to life than our career failures\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing down your thoughts about the failure to \u201cget it all out\u201d and move on<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"3\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Talk to your advisor and peers and ask them about failure that they overcame in their career<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IDEA action items Please fill out your lab group code of conduct using our template! 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