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NPR: Universities are getting rid of too-white 'dude walls' honoring top scientists and Nobel Prize winners

According to NPR, it was MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow who a few years back was at Rockefeller University handing out a prize given each year to a prominent female scientist, and she asked, “What is up with the dude wall?”

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The “dude wall” was “a wall covered with portraits of scientists from the university who have won either a Nobel Prize or the Lasker Award, a major medical prize.” It was problematic, though; every single portrait was of a man. Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist with the university and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, called it “imposing” and is now on a committee redesigning that wall to add more diversity.

It’s not the only university targeted for redesign, as “dude walls” are found everywhere in academia.

It’s a problem that has to be addressed, says Vosshall, because “it just sends the message, every day when you walk by it, that science consists of old white men.”

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But what kind of message are universities sending “with these oil portraits and dusty old photographs?” They’re even dusty they’re so old and white.

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