Steven Croucher, Cash Wager at Charles River Laboratories, spoke to myGwork about his experience of being neurodivergent in the workplace.

Lex Valentine, Administrative Assistant at Charles River Laboratories, spoke to myGwork about what authentic celebration of Trans Day of Visibility means.

This week marks Trans Awareness Week, where people around the world will come together to shed light on the challenges faced by the trans community and how we can all play a role in creating a world where every single trans person can live freely as themselves. The week is also aimed to celebrate the trans community - bringing attention to the many trans trailblazers, and raising the visibility of trans stories. We met Carly Peterson, the Service Innovation Manager for Microbial Solutions at Charles River Laboratories, who told us why this week is important to her, some of the discrimination she has faced in previous workplaces and how we can all better support the trans community.

20 local Charles River PROUD ERG members and allies joined together to participate in our first Boston PRIDE parade and festival.

We are celebrating #PRIDE month across the globe! Employees at our Charleston, South Carolina recently hosted a Pride parade.

Tip 1: Pay attention to gendered language you use and see if there is room to replace with ungendered or inclusive language.

My favorite LGBTQ+ changemaker is Sophie Labelle. She is the writer and illustrator for Assigned Male, a pro-LGBTQ+ webcomic that draws from her experiences as a transgender girl and woman.

Participating in sports, like archery, can have many great benefits, including improvement of an individual’s mental health.

In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, we wish to celebrate a few notable scientists of Asian and Pacific Islander descent from around the world

In February we celebrate the African
diaspora including African-American history. Follow Eureka in its month-long
salute to black scientists, starting with pioneers in mathematical modeling and
space scienceGladys West: She Directed Us to GPSMany of us have GPS receivers in our phones
and cars and watches to help us identify our exact location...

As Hispanic Heritage Month begins, perspectives
from four Charles River employeesToday marks the start of Hispanic Heritage Month, a time to
celebrate the history and culture of the US Latino and Hispanic communities.
Latino communities have deep roots in the Americas. In the US they have helped
to define our culture and to drive us econom...

Pioneering AIDS scientistTaiwanese-American David Da-i Ho, MD was a young
internist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1981 when he came in contact with
otherwise healthy patients afflicted with an unusual pattern of symptoms
typically seen in the immune-compromised population. Like a handful of other
clinicians around the US, Ho was lookin...

For World AIDS Day, I interviewed two pioneers in HIV/AIDS activism and research: Dr. Kenneth Mayer, Medical Research Director of Fenway Health and a professor of medicine, global health and population at Harvard; and Professor Gregg Gonsalves from the Yale School of Public Health. Ken has been part of AIDS research almost from the beginning, and G...

A conversation
with four women about the many hurdles--cultural, academic and societal--to
achieve their dreams. Smitha Gawde, PhD, Mumbai, India Growing up in India, Smitha Gawde always understood in her
family that medicine was the career path chosen for girls (for boys it was
engineering.) Problem was, Smitha wasn’t entirely sold o...

Sam Paterson, Research Surgeon, Senneville

Pronouns: he/him/his

Scotsman Sam Paterson’s career in science took off when he
graduated with honors with a degree in animal biology at University of
Stirling. He initially wanted to become a veterinary surgeon, but after his
grades slipped under the weight of multiple events --coming to terms wi...

Tara Robidoux, Operations Manager, Explora BioLabsPronouns: she/theyTara Robidoux became interested in a science career during
her high school years in Worcester, when she decided to do an animal tech
internship at a local university. Around the same time the seeds of her
vocation were being sown, Tara was also dealing with the after-effects of...

Shay Urban, Digital Education Manager, WilmingtonPronouns: they/heWhen Shay first came out as trans several years ago,
pronouns felt like a bit of armor against mis-gendering. But as time passed, he
became less concerned with the slips of tongue and more interested in people
feeling comfortable enough to offer their pronouns. “Coming out is neve...

Miriam Rosario, Director of Regulatory Compliance Strategic
Support, Wilmington

Pronouns: she, her, hers

Puerto Rican native Miriam Rosario has always been outspoken
in manner and attire. Growing up in the US, she didn’t dress, walk or talk like
most girls her age, and played sports as good if not better than the boys. Some
did not take k...

Roxanne Champagne, Process Improvement Specialist, LavalPronouns: she/herOne of the ways cisgender female Roxanne Champagne
celebrates Pride Month is to dye her hair in bright rainbow colors. It is a
chance for her to demonstrate, quite literally, her support for the LGBTQ+
community that she has been actively part of since she accepted her iden...