Celebrating Juneteenth and Black Excellence in Physiology

Join Vanderbilt University School of Medicine's Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics (MPB), Basic Sciences, and Vanderbilt University’s Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion and Graduate School as they celebrate the Juneteenth holiday. This holiday commemorates the day (June 19) in 1865 when news of the Emancipation Proclamation–which ended slavery in the U.S.–reached the 250,000 enslaved African Americans in Texas.  

As part of Vanderbilt's commemoration, the MPB Graduate Student Association (MPB-GSA) has developed a poster chronicling the history of Black excellence in physiology and highlights both well-known and unsung Black researchers for their contributions for the discipline. The poster will be displayed on campus and on the Vanderbilt website.

Poster Introduction

Poster Acknowledgements

Poster References

The Vanderbilt MPB-GSA also developed a video to accompany their Juneteenth activities where multiple Deans and members of the MPB Department discuss the importance of the holiday and the researchers recognized in the poster.

We thank Vanderbilt for sharing these resources!