The broad goal of this committee is to support excellence within the Faculty of Science by developing programs and policies that foster an environment in which all of our students, faculty and staff can succeed and thrive.
Launched in December 2018, the SECC meets once a month during the academic year. The committee aims to develop programs and policies that align with and support the University’s commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), as well as more general measures that will support our EDI principles indirectly through approaches that will improve the working and learning climate for everyone in our community.
With representation from all Faculty of Science units, the committee will serve as a hub that will function to disseminate information about University EDI policies and initiatives, to collect information from the units about their EDI-related activities and concerns, to create knowledge and capacity through group discussions, and to ensure that unit-level EDI activities are aligned with University policy.
SECC committee members:
- Laura Nilson (Chair; Associate Dean, Graduate Education)
- Adrian Liu (Dept. of Physics)
- Ben Yu (Science Undergraduate Society)
- Borke Obada-Obieh (School of Computer Science)
- Bruno Tremblay (Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
- Diane Dechief (Office of Science Education)
- Elham Soleimanian (Graduate student representative; Dept. of Geography)
- Hannah Kohler (Science Undergraduate Society)
- Juliette Gomes (Graduate student representative; Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences)
- Kimberley Metera (Dept. of Physics representative)
- Kristine Onishi (Dept. of Psychology)
- Marcy Slapcoff (Office of Science Education)
- Nicolas Cowan (Depts. of Physics and Earth and Planetary Sciences)
- Nina Warren (Graduate student representative; Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences)
- Pallavi Sirjoosingh (Dept. of Chemistry)
- Rebecca Maymon (Faculty of Science Office of Graduate Education)
- Rosalie Bélanger-Rioux (Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics)
- Sarah Turner (Dept. of Geography)
- Simon Reader (Dept. of Biology)
- Stephanie Weber (Dept. of Biology)
- Tomoko Ohyam (Dept. of Biology)