Cooking & Conversations is a new initiative that we launched in 2023.  Cooking & Conversations is designed to: 1) Increase awareness of cultural diversity and life challenges of students and mentors; 2) Increase sense of community and belonging for graduate students; 3) Strengthen student-mentor and peer relationships. 4) Provide a translatable simple intervention to promote inclusive research environments at other institutions.  More coming soon!

This initiative is in partnership with the UCLA Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies, the UCLA Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center, the UCLA Teaching Kitchen, UCLA Grad STRIVE, and with support from the National Science Foundation (BRITE Fellow Award to Prof. Rowat, CMMI-2135747).