Dr. Brownell to Present on the Science of Belonging, Why It Belongs in Science
It seems strange that a word as simple as belonging can mean so many things to so many different people. Acknowledging that conundrum, unfortunately, gets one no closer to defining the term. Conversely, belonging is easy to identify when you feel it: you're drawn to places, groups, and events, and you feel connected to them and value them not just on their own merits, but because you know that they all value you, who you are, and what you know.
It is with great pleasure, then, that the College of Sciences & Technology (CST) welcomes to campus Dr. Sara Brownell, President's Professor at Arizona State University, for a public talk on her research on biases and stigmatization in science.
Her first lecture, ""Disclosure decisions: Exploring the concealable stigmatized identities of science instructors," will start at 10 a.m. on April 17 in the Fondren Commons at CST. At 2 p.m. she will share more research in a lecture titled "Spotting sources of bias in undergraduate science."
Dr. Brownell earned her Ph.D. in neuroscience at Stanford University and currently focuses her research on making undergraduate science environments more inclusive, and her findings have been featured in Science Magazine, the NY Times, CNN, and Scientific American.
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