Good Morning!  Just a reminder of today’s seminar at 3:00 p.m. in Room G140 FRNY. 

Purdue University

School of Chemical Engineering

GRADUATE SEMINAR SERIES

Dr. Beth Holloway

Engineering for Undergrad Education, Assistant Dean

Director of Women in Engineering

Purdue University, College of Engineering

“Implicit Bias – or – How Good Intentions Aren’t Enough to Create an Equitable and Inclusive Environment”

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

3:00 - 4:15 p.m.

FRNY G140

Reception at 2:30 p.m. in Henson Atrium

Abstract:  Implicit bias is a cognitive shortcut that all people can use when making judgments.  This seminar will increase your awareness of what implicit bias is as it relates to gender, and how and when gender-based implicit bias is manifested, particularly in academic STEM environments.   Research on the impacts on the target of bias will be presented, as well as strategies to become aware of our biases and reduce our use of them.

Bio:   Dr. Beth Holloway is the Director of the Women in Engineering Program (WIEP) and the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education in the College of Engineering at Purdue.  Her research areas include differential retention issues for students across engineering disciplines; engineering admissions practices; and women and leadership, particularly in male dominated careers.  She received the 2013 Purdue Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion award for her work on behalf of undergraduate students, particularly women.  Holloway received the 2015 ASEE William E. Wickenden Award for the best article in the Journal of Engineering Education for 2014.

She has been the advisor for the Purdue section of the Society of Women Engineers since 2001, and received the 2012 Society of Women Engineers Outstanding Faculty Advisor Award.  Holloway was president of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) in 2006-07.  She was the chair of the Women in Engineering Division of ASEE in 2014-16.  Holloway received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education, all from Purdue University. 

Joy Druhan

Secretary/School of Chemical Engineering

Forney Hall of Chemical Engineering, Room 1060A

480 Stadium Mall Drive

West Lafayette, IN 47907-2100

(765) 494-4365