Event Description
The Emory Chapters of AWIS and NOBCChE partnered with Spectrum to celebrate Black History Month with a social media campaign. The campaign, #EmChemBlackHistory2020, encouraged research labs in chemistry to learn about an assigned historical Black STEM figure from throughout history. Information on these figures was also displayed throughout the chemistry building in laboratory offices and on information cards displayed throughout the Science Commons. The @EmoryChem Twitter account also Tweeted facts and action items to help the community learn more about Black history in chemistry. The event culminated in an evening of Black History trivia.
This year [Black History Month] is of even higher significance as it marks the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment (1920), which granted American women the right to vote, and the 150th anniversary of the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) which granted the right of Black men to vote.
NOBCChE Communications Chair, Kimberly Marroquin
Audience
The entire Emory chemistry community and the public via social media.
Project Leadership
- Tamra Blue, Graduate Scholar and Executive Board of NOBCChE
- Ethel Ellington, Chemistry Undergraduate Program Development Coordinator
- NOBCChE @ Emory
- AWIS: Emory Chapter
Event Sponsors
This event was sponsored by the Department of Chemistry graduate program in partnership with AWIS and NOBCChE.