Project Summary / Abstract IMSD at Stony Brook University: Maximizing Excellence in Research for Graduate Education Fostering Inclusive Research Scientist Training (FIRST) The Fostering Inclusive Research Scientist Training (FIRST) Workshop series (supplement to the NIH-funded Stony Brook University Initiative for Maximizing Student Development: Maximizing Excellence in Research for Graduate Education) is designed to better equip faculty and administrators in biomedical science departments and graduate programs to foster safe and inclusive training environments for underrepresented (UR) trainees in the biomedical sciences. The workshop series will focus mitigating the effects of the “chilly climate”, the phenomenon where UR individuals feel unwelcome in an environment due to factors such as numerical underrepresentation and perceptions of unconscious and/or overt bias. The three main areas that addressed by the workshop series are anti-racism; unconscious bias; and allyship and advocacy - three topics recognized as areas of need by biomedical science trainees at Stony Brook University. The audience for the FIRST Workshop series is faculty and staff with important roles in biomedical science graduate training programs at Stony Brook University. The seven-session FIRST Workshop series will employ a data-driven and evidence based approach to develop curriculum and will employ the EPIC (exposure, persuasion, identification, and commitment) model of active learning (Aragon et al., 2016), utilizing an incremental approach to both successfully convey the importance of the topics and to motivate participants to adopt the practices covered in the material. FIRST Workshop participants will also have the opportunity to develop a specific activity that addresses a workshop topic of their choice and present their plan to all of the workshop participants to obtain suggestions for improvements, discuss their plans for implementation and celebrate the work of all of the participants. The FIRST Workshop will better prepare faculty and staff to create safe and inclusive training environments that diminish the chilly climate and encourage UR trainees to pursue biomedical science career paths.