A standing ovation for Asna Tabassum, USC valedictorian, and cheers for her “resistance to genocide” minor today at the USC student awards ceremony

Andrea Sama and Jazz Dickinson have been awarded a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowship, paving the way for a May 10 keynote address on issues of health equity in the Latinx community. Details: go.ucsd.edu/3QASUSK Event registration: bit.ly/3QBzT2p

Following UC Davis, UC Riverside divests their $1 million student budget from the zionist entity. Material change is possible—it’s already happening

Fade Hypertension is a student interest group that coordinates free blood pressure screenings at Black-owned barbershops. The SIG has even led the way to the creation of an elective course, "Fade Hypertension: Interventions in the Community." 💈 🗞️ Read: go.ucsd.edu/49uA2fz

Gaza is Resilient | A doctor and her team risk their lives to extract a wounded patient stranded in the vicinity of Nasser Hospital

Black and brown employees often labor in art spaces as docents, safeguarding artworks while providing guidance and answering the questions of museum patrons. They are central to the functioning of museums, but their presences are overlooked and their contributions to our experience in museums are rendered invisible. Artist Deni Wohlgemuth-Ponty, however, made this black docent the subject of his painting "ArtGuard2000." He is flanked by seemingly canonical artworks filled with white figuration. Ponty suggests that this coy figure also deserves our contemplation and scholarly attention. Another notable example of acknowledging the significance of docents is evident in the work of artist Fred Wilson, who has always been conscious of the labor performed by black and brown museum employees. He incorporated them into his groundbreaking 1992 exhibtion "Mining the Museum" at the former Maryland Historical Society and in "Guarded Views"—his contribution to the 1994 "Black Male" exhibtion at the @whitneymuseum.

Dr. Antoinette Candia-Bailey, vice president of Student Affairs at Lincoln University-Missouri, reportedly died by suicide from “bullying and severe mistreatment” in her role University President John Moseley is now facing calls to resign hbcubuzz.com/2024/01/lincoln…

SF IRACDA is pleased to welcome three new scholars! Please join us in welcoming Drs Ximena Garcia Arceo, Laura Seeholzer, and Lucas Cabrera Zapata to the program. For more information about our program, visit iracda.ucsf.edu/

As a young woman from the Caribbean, this is a big deal for me! I'm so excited to share our pre-print and my first first-author work: "O-antigen biosynthesis mediates evolutionary trade-offs within a simple community". 1/@ucsdbiosciences biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…