Melinda Gates Has a New Mission: Women in Tech

An interview with Melinda Gates on her work around bringing more women into tech and helping them to stay in the field. This is motivated by personal reasons of seeing a current crisis of even less women than when she graduated 30 years ago. Find out more at https://backchannel.com/melinda-gates-has-a-new-mission-women-in-tech-8eb706d0a903#.smna1x7go

Implicit Bias Workshops – Institute Diversity (Georgia Tech)

90-minute workshops offered for faculty on implcit bias and perceptions of competence. The workshops are organized by Institute of Diversity in collaboration with Georgia Tech’s ADVANCE program. Find out more at http://www.advance.gatech.edu/implicit-bias-workshops

ICMC 2016 best paper’s award to Lauren Hayes – Facebook

ICMC 2016 best paper’s award given to Lauren Hayes for the paper “Sound, Electronics and Music: an evaluation of early embodied education”. The members of the 2016 Paper Award Panel are: Rebecca Fiebrink (Chair), Meg Schedel, Stefania Serafin, Tae Hong Park, Matthew Blessing. Find out more at http://www.icmc2016.com/program/PaperTrack/s45.html

Uni to pioneer ‘name-blind’ application process for UCAS – University of Huddersfield

Four English universities will take part in the ‘name-blind’ application process for UCAS with the aim at ensuring ethnic fairness in the admissions process. The names of the applicants will be masked during the selection process to ensure unbiased decisions. Find out more at http://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2016/september/unitopioneername-blindapplicationprocessforucas.php