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Human Factors and Ergonomics in Diversity, Inclusion and Social Justice Research

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Diversity Committee is entering its second year and continuing to explore ways to increase the diversity of the society. Following last year’s panel on “Challenges and Opportunities for Involvement,” we, and others, recognized that human factors and ergonomics (HFE) professionals are equipped and able to advance diversity, inclusion and social justice issues. This panel will bring together researchers to discuss experiences addressing these issues to highlight existing work, spark excitement about conducting new work and share advice. This panel will discuss and share lessons learned in a range of projects, including an HFE approach to studying diversity in academia and applications of user-centered design to address the intersection of technology and bias. Macroergonomics contributes important tools and approaches; the need for collaboration with other disciplines and intersectional thinking will be considered. Finally, venues for scholarship in this area of work will be highlighted.

Twelve Tips for Curriculum Sharing and Implementation: Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. In this era of decreased funding, academic health centers have found that sharing educational best practices is a responsible way to allocate resources as well as lead to new innovations and venues for scholarship. While much has been written about sharing these practices via large databases and public dissemination there is a paucity of information regarding externally imposed partnerships explicitly created to facilitate the sharing of curriculum. Two medical schools in Texas partnered in response to an NIH request for proposals that focused on curriculum sharing. This article details twelve tips learned from this five-year partnership and revolves around two best practices successfully shared, adapted, and then implemented. Practice one is a workshop that targets implicit bias in healthcare and how it impacts patient care. Practice two is a large scale, mass casualty simulation that capitalizes on interprofessional team delivery of health care. Don't reinvent the wheel; share instead.

Counterculture

Counterculture

Introduction

Chacun de nous . . . rencontre, au début de sa course, un monstre qui dresse devant lui telle énigme qui nous puisse empêcher d'avancer. André Gide, Oedipe1 This issue of Arethusa is a "special issue" in more than one way. It gathers together articles from a distinguished group of international Homeric scholars, continuing Arethusa's long-standing tradition of publishing volumes comprised of articles devoted to a particular theme, in this case, Epos and Mythos: Language and Narrative in Homeric Epic. It is special in another way, though, for it is our chance to honor John J. Peradotto, who served Arethusa first as associate editor for seven years and then as editor-in-chief for another twenty. Jack was there at the birth of Arethusa in 1968, when he was a member of the founding editorial board under Arethusa's first editor-in-chief, Charles Garton. J. P. Sullivan served next, and was succeeded by Jack, who held the post from 1975 until 1995. He remains an associate editor. Like the proverbial mother bear who licks her cubs into shape, Jack guided the growth and development of Arethusa. It became a venue for scholarship that, certainly in the early years of the journal, would have had a hard time finding a place in other classics journals. Feminist scholarship, Marxist criticism, structuralism and post-structuralism, Bakhtinian dialogics, critical theory--these and other forms of scholarship to which classics [End Page 1] proved resistant for many years found a home in, and a voice through, Arethusa when there was nowhere else to go. As Jack himself remarked, "Some people friendly to the mission of Arethusa, and even some not so friendly, have said that it required some rebelliousness to take the risks that resulted in the kind of history the journal has had." That streak of rebelliousness, a disciplined mind, and endless curiosity are the hallmarks of Jack Peradotto's editorship of Arethusa. The same qualities inform his own scholarship, which the papers assembled in this volume celebrate. Always lucidly written and rigorously logical, his articles and books have influenced a whole generation of scholars and helped shape our critical discourse, particularly in the area that this volume represents, Homeric studies. His 1990 book, Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey, reflects his fascination with language and meaning, and has been widely reviewed and even more widely cited. That it has, on occasion, been singled out for attack is itself a sign of its influence and centrality to the field. On April 14 and 15, 2000, a conference, Epos and Mythos, was held at the University at Buffalo to honor Jack Peradotto's scholarship; the papers in this volume originated at that conference. Scholars from a wide range of backgrounds, representing a broad spectrum of methodological approaches to the Homeric epics, came together to focus on two of Jack's long-standing interests: language and narrative. Linguistic analysis, anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, narratology, Dumézil's tri-partite theory of Indo-European societies, and post-structuralism--a variety of approaches are deployed to analyze key issues in Homeric epic: prophecy, theology, social structure, kinship ties, character and persona, truth and fiction. The papers in this collection, in all their variety, are an appropriate tribute to the wide-ranging intellectual curiosity, the erudition, the discipline, and the subtle wit of Jack Peradotto's scholarship. Lector, laetaberis.