Symposium: DMMM5: A Decade of Creating Inclusion and Belonging for Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions

The Fifth Summit on Diversity in the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Professions (DMMM5) builds on a decade of work cultivating an inclusive and diverse field by sharing proven, practical solutions that attendees can take back to their workplaces.

Since its first iteration in 2014, the DMMM series has covered gender, race, LGBTQ+, and neurodivergence in science and engineering and topics such as addressing unconscious bias, imposter syndrome, hiring best practices, and allyship.

This fifth summit will highlight the progress and lessons learned of the past decade, while discovering tools and opportunities for continuing future progress.

Keynote Speaker

Date: Tuesday, March 25
Time: 2:50 p.m.
Location: Room 150, MGM Grand Las Vegas Hotel & Casino

Historically white, and male, colleges and universities in the U.S. began to diversify their undergraduate bodies in the 1960s and have made considerable progress since then. But progress on faculty diversity has stalled. That has wide-ranging implications for everything from university completion rates for students of color to the presence of new voices in medical research. Universities deserve much of the blame, for they implemented programs to diversify the faculty that their own social scientists had long known to be ineffective in the business world. An analysis of the efficacy of diversity programs at 600 schools over 20 years sheds light on how universities can build faculties that look more like their students, and the wider society, in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity.

About the Keynote Speaker

Frank Dobbin is Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard.  His Inventing Equal Opportunity (Princeton U. Press 2009) shows how HR managers and activists defined what it meant to discriminate in the eyes of the law, broadening the definition over time. His Getting to Diversity: What Works and What Doesn't with Alexandra Kalev (Harvard U. Press [Belknap] 2022) looks at the effectiveness of dozens of different diversity programs, in over 800 companies across more than 30 years, to answer the questions: Which programs help, which hurt, and how can harmful programs be improved?  Dobbin and Kalev are now investigating university programs designed to promote faculty diversity, using similar methods to sort out which are most effective.  

Session Plans

Four sessions are planned, covering the following topics:

• Session 1: A Decade of DMMM Impact
• Session 2: Physical & Cognitive Diversity
• Session 3: Taking Actions to Continue Progress
• Session 4: Personal & Professional Development

The Program Details page provides more information on speakers on topics for these sessions.

Sponsors

DMMM5 programming is made possible through the generous support of the TMS Foundation and Dr. Keith J Bowman via the UMBC Constellation Professorship of Information Technology and Engineering.

The DMMM5 Organizing Committee would also like to thank the following for their support of the program:

• The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society
• TMS Membership Diversity & Development Committee
• TMS Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee