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June 09 Issue - Employee Monthly Magazine My ViewC.J. Bacino: Students, diversity, and being unique
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The month of June at the Laboratory always brings with it a sense of renewed energy, excitement, and possibility. More than just the arrival of summer, June represents the expansion of an important element in the Laboratory's periodic table of diversity: students. Creative and innovative institutions like Los Alamos National Laboratory recognize the importance of having such diversity in our organizational culture. Embracing student populations brings new thinking and ideas, strengthens pipelines for future endeavors, and gives even the most seasoned employees the opportunity to further develop through their own exploration of mentoring and teaching. Providing a welcoming work environment in which all students can succeed despite differences in things such as gender, race or ethnicity, physical abilities, sexual orientation, or religion also is critical to our success. By encouraging a mutually respectful working environment, we support the diversity required to enhance problem solving, make new discoveries, and cause positive change. And yet diversity is about more than just protected-class statuses
like race and gender. Fields of study, types of degrees, schools
attended, work assignments, and placements within the Laboratory
are just some of the many factors that define student
diversity. Regardless of affiliations, all students are individuals and bring with them unique experiences. Above all, I encourage our students to use this opportunity to not only learn more about their area of interest but also themselves. It is the ability to be unique-to be different-that not only creates the next big breakthrough but ultimately defines who we are. --C.J. Bacino, Laboratory Diversity Officer Other Headlines
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