CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIUM
From Bias to Opportunity
A Colloquium with
Molly Carnes,
MD, MS
Co-Director of the Women in Science
and Engineering Leadership Institute
Director of the UW – Madison
Center for Women’s Health Research
Professor in the Medicine, Psychiatry, and
Industrial & Systems Engineering
Departments Molly Christine Pribbenow,
PhD
Director of the LEAD Center, Wisconsin
Center for Education Research
PI, UWSA and IPERT grants to support
Fair Play and its dissemination Friday, April 8, 3:30 p.m. Seminar Hall,
Room 1315 Chemistry Building
Refreshments to follow in the Shain Atrium
This presentation introduces participants to the concepts of unconscious biases and assumptions about race
and gender by treating such biases as unwanted "habits." Underlying psychological concepts will be discussed,
along with strategies for reducing the application of these biases. In particular, participants will be introduced to
Fair Play, which is a simulation of the complex social world faced by Jamal Davis, an African American graduate
student in science. In addition to recreating the graduate experience, Fair Play presents real-life examples of
bias concepts such as microaggressions, color blind racial attitudes, tokenism and others.
Fair Play can be downloaded and played from this site before the colloquium: www.fairplaygame.org