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Bias Detecting Game Receives $2M in Backing

By pete_gallagher

A University of Wisconsin-Madison doctor is the beneficiary of three-year long, $2 million grant to develop an interactive game designed to 'uncover and neutralize implicit, unintentional biases against women, minorities and people with disabilities.'

The grant, entitled the National Institutes of Health Director's Pathfinder Award to Promote Diversity in the Scientific Workforce, came from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and is administered by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences.

Molly Carnes (pictured), Director of the school's Center for Women's Health Research, will oversee the development of the games, which will 'place faculty in situations where they can recognize the self-defeating nature of implicit bias.'
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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on October 11, 2010 (boomark / email).