In 2021, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center won the National Institutes of Health Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity. The prize acknowledges MD Anderson’s dedication to enhancing diversity in academia. The institution won one of ten $50,000 awards.
The “Race, Gender, & Work at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center: Triumphs of Houston’s Leading Hospital” collectin, conducted by the Research Medical Library’s Historical Resources Center, is a collection of oral histories that showcases the history, change, and growth of diversity and inclusion within the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. By providing voice and power to individuals who have experienced MD Anderson’s development toward equality within their mission to “eliminate cancer,” the exhibit explores racial justice and the experiences of women within the hospital’s staff.
The collection contains photographs of each highlighted individual along with a short biography that examines their contributions to the institution’s search for social equality in addition to a series of clips from oral history interviews that, alongside digital transcripts, explore MD Anderson’s dedication to progress.
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Experience as an African American Man in Nursing School
Cecil C. Brewer RN, BSN, MS and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
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The Needs of Women Faculty – Childcare
Elizabeth Grimm PhD, Charles M. Balch MD, and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
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Challenges of Credibility at the County General Hospital in Milwaukee, WI
Ritsuko Komaki MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
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Death of Friend Sadako Sasaki due to Radiation-Effect Leukemia – Part II
Ritsuko Komaki MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
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The Death of Friend Sadako Sasaki Due to Radiation-Effect Leukemia – Part I
Ritsuko Komaki MD and Tacey A. Rosolowski PhD
