The goal of the recruitment effort is to increase the diversity of prospective ION community members and ensure meaningful and welcoming interactions with recruits and guests. We are focusing our efforts on graduate student recruitment as well as recruitment of ION postdocs, research associates, faculty and staff members. To achieve this, we are building a set of comprehensive recommendations of best practices and promoting shared training to implement both within recruitment activities and the ION seminar series.

Our immediate goals include:

(1) To better understand what Biology graduate recruitment looks like from the administrative side and provide recommendations to improve recruitment from URM.

(2) Devise ways to overcome additional challenges that potential recruits face due to the pandemic.