All,

I am a co-PI on the University of Arizona NSF ADVANCE Award based on the role of unconscious bias in the academic STEM world.  We’ve done a lot with search committee training, training for department heads, workshops, bringing women scientists to campus, etc.  There’s lots of research results, as well as other useful information, at our website:  http://www.advance.arizona.edu/ and especially under the resources at: http://www.advance.arizona.edu/resources.cfm

I’m happy to provide other information if anyone is interested.

Thanks,

Randy

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Randall M. Richardson

Professor of Geosciences

Department of Geosciences

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ 85721-0077

(520) 621-4950 (O);  (520) 621-2672 (F)

I have been sharing this study with my lab, and thought with the influx of job ads that the list might find it interesting as well. I was aware of the studies that look at differences in how people treat CVs in relation to perceived gender and ethnicity of applicants, but I was unaware that letters of recommendation could be biased! And, since when is collaboration a bad thing?!?!?