On April 19, 2018, the college partnered with the College of Engineering to bring Dr. Claude Steele visit to Penn State. EMS chose his book Whistling Vivaldi and Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us, which summarizes years of research on stereotype threat and the underperformance of minority students in higher education, for the 2018 EMS Reads program. Copies were distributed to any interested member of the EMS community, free of charge.
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Steele is an American social psychologist and a professor of psychology at Stanford University. While on campus he met with many groups and gave the lecture "Stereotype Threat and Identity Threat: The Science of a Diverse Community."
We provided tickets to 100 members of the EMS community to attend the talk, and set up viewing stations within the college. Additionally, in advance of Steele’s visit, we engaged our faculty and staff with a series of discussions facilitated by EMS faculty.
Additional discussions were held with Women in EMS, We Are For Science, by EMS advisers, and by additional groups within the college.
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