Since its inception, the Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB) has been an example of how spaces and behaviors in bioengineering and biosciences can be reimagined to facilitate interdisciplinary research at the highest levels. The members of the IBB community are leaders, and through our collective leadership we create the future not only for our disciplines but also for the society as a whole. The repeated failures of our society to address the challenges of police violence and systemic racism are extending an opportunity to us to collectively lead in the effort in creating a safer, more inclusive, and more highly prosperous environment for our historically underrepresented minority faculty, trainees, and staff.

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee was established to plan events and activities to combat structural racism. The goal of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee is to create a safer, more inclusive, and more highly prosperous community within IBB and Georgia Tech, especially for black faculty, trainees and staff and other historically underrepresented groups.

Edward Botchwey (BME, IBB DEI Committee Chair)     
    

Past Antiracism Distinguished Lecturers 

• 2021 Kamau Bobb, Ph.D., Georgia Tech

• 2022 Anne Pollock, Ph.D., King's College 

• 2023 Manu Platt, Ph.D., NIH