Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
One of our main goals as a lab is to cultivate a safe and inclusive environment that promotes the betterment of every person as an individual and team member. We strive to hold each other accountable to successfully uphold our goal to identify and celebrate different backgrounds. The Donnelly lab is committed to being a protected environment, where everyone of different races, ethnicities, gender identities and sexualities, religions, and educational backgrounds is welcome.
The vital aspects of DEI in the Donnelly lab include:
Inclusion, Representation, and Respect for all backgrounds and identities
Recognition to accomplish our DEI goal, all lab members must be active participants, working toward this goal every day
As we thirst for more knowledge and explore the world of large animal reproduction, the representation of numerous identities is essential to bring different perspectives, curious minds, and helping hands into the lab. We acknowledge the indispensable advantage of being an inclusive environment that not only supports our goals and values as a lab but is open to criticism and adaptable to potential changes.
The Donnelly lab proudly stands with Cornell Univeristy’s College of Veterinary Medicine’s diversity, equity, and inclusion belief statement: “We are dedicated to Cornell's ideal of "any person, any study," and will strive to always live up to that founding principle. We believe that our college is made stronger through a diversity of backgrounds, thoughts and experiences where all are actively welcomed, have a sense of belonging and are able to thrive personally and professionally.”
If any issues or concerns arise regarding the validity of the Donnelly lab’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, contact Dr. Donnelly (donnellylab@cornell.edu) or Cornell’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion (https://diversity.cornell.edu/).
Cornell Land Acknowledgement
Cornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ people, past and present, to these lands and waters.
This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ leadership.
In addition to the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ land acknowledgment but separate from it, the AIISP faculty would like to emphasize: Cornell's founding was enabled in the course of a national genocide by the sale of almost one million acres of stolen Indian land under the Morrill Act of 1862. To date the university has neither officially acknowledged its complicity in this theft nor has it offered any form of restitution to the hundreds of Native communities impacted. For additional information, see the Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession website.
