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dinsdag 18 maart 2025
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TUESDAY, MAR. 18, 2025
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The country’s largest private funder of biomedical research has cut its funding for a program at Queens College that had focused on making science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education more inclusive and engaging for students of diverse backgrounds, the college confirmed to THE CITY.
The Inclusive Excellence initiative, launched at the Flushing-based CUNY college in 2022 with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), ended abruptly last month when the Institute cut short what was supposed to be a $505,000, six-year grant running through 2028.
“I was pissed. I called them cowards,” said Desiree Byrd, a psychology professor at Queens College and a member of the initiative’s advisory board. “It felt like an abandonment. It’s as if the work was disposable.”
Byrd hoped that because the program wasn’t funded by the federal government, but privately, that it would continue on. An HHMI spokesperson declined to provide an explanation for why they pulled the plug.
“Nobody’s forcing you to take all this preemptive complicity,” said Byrd.
Read more here for what CUNY has to say about the future of their DEI programming.
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Things To Do
Here are some free and low-cost things to do around the city this week.
Tuesday, Mar. 18: Learn how to make beaded jewelry at the Pelham Bay Library in The Bronx — register over the phone or in-person. 1 p.m.
Wednesday, Mar. 19: Attend a concert by the NYU Symphony Orchestra, which will be performing pieces that won the NYU Steinhardt Film Scoring Composition Competition. Iris Cantor Theater in Manhattan, 8 p.m.
Thursday, Mar. 20: Celebrate the first day of Spring on a hike through the Greenbelt, Staten Island’s flagship park. 11 a.m.
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