The Lambert Lab speaks to Nature Careers about National Academies report on advancing antiracism in STEMM

“We’ve been forced to look at racism, including structural racism, and the effect that it has had on educational disparities,” says Marcus Lambert, a workforce-diversity researcher and associate vice-president for research strategy and operations at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in New York City . “Ultimately,” he says, “I think this will be a go-to…

Dr. Lambert at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Meeting on Mentorship

Dr. Lambert visits Washington, D.C. for a workshop on Taking Doctoral Mentorship Seriously: Institutional Design for Equity and Inclusive Excellence sponsored by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and Association of American Universities. The goal of the workshop was to discuss the state (and future) of graduate mentorship in higher education,
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Nature highlights our latest publication

Taken together, the comments offer an unusually thorough and candid look at what postdocs think about their training and their futures, says study co-author Marcus Lambert, a higher-education researcher at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in New York City, who led the development of the U-MARC survey. “A lot of previous studies offer perspectives of…

Nature Careers interviews Dr. Lambert about Pew Research Center analysis

The continued lack of racial diversity is a bit surprising, says Marcus Lambert, a higher-education researcher at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in New York City. He notes that the trend persists despite some gains in the enrolment of members of minority ethnic groups in university science programmes. “The STEM workforce is connected to the…

Interview with eLife

Marcus Lambert, Assistant Dean of Diversity at Weill Cornell Medicine, describes how improving diversity in the scientific workforce is going to take more than attracting students from underrepresented groups. Read more here.