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From: Ed Lazowska <lazowska@cs.washington.edu>
Date: Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 4:37 PM
Subject: “Conversation with Claude Steele”
To: Researchers <researchers@cs.washington.edu>, “cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu” <cs-ugrads@cs.washington.edu>, Staff <cs-staff@cs.washington.edu>
(CSE folks who are *not* committed to diversity should *for sure* tune in!)
Thanks.
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A Conversation with Claude Steele
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
1:30 PM PDT
The National Academies Beckman Center, Irvine, CA And a Live Webcast
Noted author Claude Steele (NAS) will speak about stereotype threat at the Committee on Women in
Science, Engineering, and Medicine Spring meeting on June 2, 2015 at 1:30 PM PDT. Claude Steele is
the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the
author of Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do and recipient of numerous
awards for his contributions to social psychology.
Stereotype threat is a situational predicament in which individuals are, or feel themselves to be
at risk of confirming negative stereotypes about their social group. As Steele has noted,
stereotypes attached to an aspect of one’s identity can have a drastic negative effect on a
person’s functioning. In Whistling Vivaldi and his academic work, Steele examines how these effects
explain racial and gender gaps in academic performance.
To register please go to the CWSEM website: www.nas.edu/cwsem. If you have any questions or need
additional information, please contact Irene Ngun (ingun@nas.edu; 202-334-2389).