The past year has been a time of exciting reflection and change for WISELI, a research center supporting faculty diversity and inclusion, housed in the College of Engineering. New personnel, a new name, and plans …
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STEMMing the Tide of Bias: Video Game Teaches Professors How Discrimination Feels
With a new $1.6 million, five-year NIH grant, Christine Pribbenow, director of the LEAD Center in the UW–Madison School of Education’s Wisconsin Center for Education Research, is using the ‘Fair Play’ video game to teach …
‘Fair Play’ Video Game Honored With National Award for Revealing Bias in STEM Education
The ‘Fair Play’ video game, funded by a $1.6 million four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is earning accolades for raising awareness about implicit bias in academic settings. Recently, the game’s founder, …
A champion for women physician-scientists, Dr. Molly Carnes retires
WISELI’s founding co-Director, the incomparable Dr. Molly Carnes, has announced her retirement.
Molly Carnes Breaks Through Biases
As the [Center for Women’s Health Research] director, she developed a strong network of women across campus who, like her, were investigating gender bias in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). When the National Science …
Breaking Bias
In 2015, Devine partnered with Molly Carnes, the director of the UW’s Center for Women’s Health Research, to examine, and potentially reduce, gender bias in departmental units covering all fields of science, engineering, and medicine …
Race May Influence Transplant Decision Making in Heart Failure
“When the patient information is more subjective, then the implicit biases are more likely to influence clinical decision making in ways that would usually disadvantage members of certain groups versus another,” Carnes said.
NIH ‘High Risk, High Reward’ Awardees Skew Male—Again
Dr. Molly Carnes is quoted as an expert on implicit bias in this piece in Science Magazine.
Molly Carnes receives WARF Named Professorship
Molly Carnes, MD MS, Co-director of WISELI, Director of the UW Center for Women’s Health Research, and Professor of Medicine, Psychiatry, and Industrial & Systems Engineering is one of ten UW–Madison faculty recipients of a …
Devine et al. 2017 paper included in Gender Action Portal
The Gender Action Portal at Harvard University has selected the Devine et al. 2017 paper “A gender bias habit-breaking intervention led to increased hiring of female faculty in STEMM departments” in their database. The Women …