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Lea Vacca Michel
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Lea Michel is a professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology and chair of the ASBMB Maximizing Access Committee. She received the 2021 ASBMB Early-Career Leadership Award.
Articles by Lea Vacca Michel
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Award
Let’s make ASBMB awardees look more like BMB scientists
April 23, 2024
Think about nominating someone outside your immediate network.
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Diversity
Response to Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action
June 30, 2023
ASBMB committees weigh in on the 6-3 decision against race-conscious admissions programs at Harvard and the University of North Carolina.
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Essay
All alone in a crowd
Aug. 11, 2022
Group social events can help with team building, but they also can do the opposite.
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Diversity
‘If I don’t, who will?’
March 10, 2022
As institutions inch toward their diversity, equity and inclusion goals, women and people from marginalized groups are doing the lion’s share of labor — for free and at great cost.