Annie Klyce, a graduate student in the the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment at the University of South Carolina is the 2021 IGER Award winner. She is the first student recipient of this award. Annie was recognized for her work adapting labs for accessibility, preparing materials for...
Archive for year: 2021
Fall 2021 Fundraising Season Begins!
Greetings IAGD Family! As most of you know, on October 29 I took over the role of Executive Director of the International Association for Geoscience Diversity. I am honored and humbled to move into this new role. Leading the IAGD is certainly not something I can do on my...
IAGD Leadership Transition: Letter to the community from Dr. Chris Atchison
Dear IAGD Community, On October 29th, during our annual meeting, I stepped aside as Executive Director of the IAGD. During the past 13 years, I have witnessed a transition from traditionally exclusive approaches to teaching and learning in the geosciences, to more of a focus on inclusion and access....
IAGD develops new tactile graphics repository for teaching geoscience concepts to Blind and low vision students
Open any geology textbook. Its full-color photographs, illustrations, graphs, and maps are valuable for providing context and learning the story that geology has to tell. For Blind and low vision learners, these images are inaccessible. Providing alternate text to describe imagery with words provides some degree of accessibility, but...
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