In celebration of Pride Month 2016, Argonne’s Spectrum Employee Resource Group, with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy, hosted physicist Elena Long on June 23, 2016, who spoke on “Pride and Physics: Experiences, Data and the Path Forward for LGBT Physicists.”
Dr. Long is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of New Hampshire. She studies experimental hadronic physics with an emphasis on using spin structure to probe the internal properties of protons and neutrons and to uncover the mechanisms by which quarks come together to form stable atomic nuclei. She is the founder of the organization lgbt+physicists where she hosts an Out List for LGBT and ally physicists and is a co-author of a Best Practices Guide for Academic Departments.
Long served on the American Physical Society (APS) Ad Hoc Committee on LGBT Issues (C-LGBT), which recently released the first rigorous study of the climate for LGBT physicists and made recommendations on making APS more inclusive. She is also the Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion for oSTEM (Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) where she oversees the Committee on Women, Committee on Racial and Ethnic Diversity, and the Committee on Transgender and Non-Binary Diversity. Long holds a Ph.D. in physics from Kent State University and is a recipient of the Jefferson Science Associates Promising Young Scientist and Post Doctoral Research Prize.
Watch the video of Dr. Long’s June 23 talk.
