Hidden Figures: Bias in the Sciences Discussion
Date
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 10:00am to 11:30pm
Location
1330, 400NIB
Description
Join UMSN faculty member Dr. Patricia Coleman-Burns and Senior Diversity Director Dr. Rushika Patel in a discussion based on the major motion picture, "Hidden Figures", the story of Katherine G. Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson. These three brilliant African-American women working at NASA served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit.
The report, Implicit Bias (Kirwan 2014), is a resource for this discussion but is not required reading to attend.