Sustain
“Sustainability” has become quite the buzz word, evoking images of solar panels, rooftop gardens, and recycling bins. But too rarely do we ask the question: How do we build the world we want to sustain for future generations? From the University of Utah's Sustainability Office comes Sustain, a podcast that highlights environmental justice research and scholarship by the University of Utah community. Podcast host Maria Archibald sits down with U faculty and students to learn how the sustainability movement can build and sustain a world in which environmental integrity, social equity, and economic security prosper. New episodes will be released monthly.
Sustain
Equity and Inclusion in Scientific Research
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University of Utah Sustainability Office
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Season 3
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Episode 1
Dr. Jory Lerback, a recent U graduate and a current postdoc fellow at UCLA, sits down with Sustain's Maria Archibald for a conversation on everything from groundwater chemistry to equity and inclusion in the scientific community. "How we measure diversity and how we measure success is the problem," Lerback says. "When we measure success in academia by seeing how many citations you get, and how big the network you have, and how much prestige you hold with your colleagues, that all has a really strong undercurrent of all of these different societal issues, including racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-disability bias."