Thank you for your interest in the Chicagoland Diverse STEM Postdoc Recruitment Initiative! The virtual 2-day event for prospective postdocs hosted by the Initiative will take place October 10-11, 2024.
This is a collaborative initiative to improve diversity and inclusion at the three largest research universities in the Chicago area (Northwestern University, University of Illinois Chicago, and the University of Chicago) and is open to all advanced PhD students and postdocs in STEM. Our goals are to 1) address the "pipeline" challenge in STEM for historically marginalized graduate students and postdocs; and 2) to recruit and retain individuals from groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in academia and the sciences, including individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds, who have disabilities, who identify as LGBTQIA+, who are veterans, who have obtained a PhD as a second career, or who were first-generation college students or Pell-eligible.
Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to learn about three postdoctoral programs in the Chicagoland area and the cutting-edge research happening at each institution. This year, over 130 faculty members across the three institutions have signed up to meet with you! In 2023, more than 80 prospective postdocs participated in the initiative!
Selected candidates will be invited to participate in a 2-day virtual event (October 10-11, 2024). Participants will also be matched with faculty at each institution for virtual informational interviews. Virtual informational interviews are expected to occur during the recruitment period (October 10-25, 2024). Prospective postdoc participants will be responsible for scheduling virtual informational interviews with their faculty partners once they receive their match information.
Sessions from the 2023 Virtual 2-Day Event Included:
We will have live captioning during the 2-day virtual event. The application provides a space for you to list any accommodations you may need; we may contact you for further information in order to meet your needs. If you have any questions or would like to speak to us directly, please email us at chicago.postdoc.recruit@gmail.com.
The Northwestern, UIC, and UChicago campuses reside on the original homelands and traditional territory of the Council of Three Fires, the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, and Odawa Nations, as well as other Tribal Nations that know this area as their ancestral homeland, including the Menominee, Ho-Chunk, Miami, Peoria, Očhéthi Šakówiŋ, Kaskaskia, Kiikaapoi, and Sac and Fox. Indigenous peoples are the traditional stewards of the land that we now occupy, living here long before Chicago was a city and still thriving here today and current home to one of the largest urban Native American communities in the United States. Native people are part of Chicago’s past, present, and future. Finally, to acknowledge is to act; we encourage anyone reading this to consider the multitude of ways to translate knowledge and thoughts into active support for Indigenous peoples and communities locally, nationally, and around the world.
Questions? Email us at chicago.postdoc.recruit@gmail.com.
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