
How Implicit Bias and Lack of Diversity Undermine Science
The first step toward fixing the culture of STEM is recognizing that it’s broken
Kuheli Dutt, PhD, is the assistant director for academic affairs and diversity at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, and serves as Lamont's diversity officer. Kuheli leads diversity and inclusion efforts at Lamont, and her research interests lie in implicit bias, gender and STEM diversity. Her publications include Women in the Geosciences, published by the American Geophysical Union, and "Gender Differences in Recommendation Letters for Postdoctoral Fellowships in Geoscience," published in Nature Geoscience. For more information visit https://diversity.ldeo.columbia.edu.
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