Members of the Jha Lab work within the Department of Integrative Biology and the College of Natural Sciences on various activities to support well-being at the lab, department, college, and university levels.
Shalene Jha serves on the Community Accessibility and Belonging (CAB) committee for the College of Natural Sciences and is chair of the IB Community, Accessibility, and Well-being (CAW) committee. Some examples of committee activities include the development of STEM recruiting events (https://cns.utexas.edu/graduate-education/graduate-programs/sure), the creation of CNS excellence awards, and the promotion of gender-inclusive restrooms.
INTEGRATIVE BIOLOGY MISSION STATEMENT
In the Department of Integrative Biology, we welcome and embrace all members of our community, including students, staff, and faculty. We provide support for people of different backgrounds, races, nationalities, genders, sexual orientations, beliefs, religions, and socio-economic status. We respect, encourage, and engage varied perspectives, while recognizing that our strength and success, as a department, graduate program, and university, is built on the foundation of a wide range of perspectives and experiences.
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We would like to acknowledge that we are meeting on the lands of Turtle Island, the ancestral name for what now is called North America. Moreover, we acknowledge the Alabama Coushatta, Cado, Carrizo-Comecrudo, Coahuiltecan, Comanche, Kickapoo, Lipan Apache, Tonkawa, and Isleta del Sur Pueblo, and all the American Indian and Indigenous Peoples and communities who have been or have become part of the lands and territories in Texas.
