📣 Meet a 2024 #NCWITSummit Keynote Speaker! Drawing from several U.S. National Science Foundation-funded studies and her recent book, #MisconceivingMerit , Erin A. Cech (she/her) will discuss ideologies that produce STEM inequalities and how to interrupt them to cultivate inclusion!

Register: bit.ly/NCWIT-2024Summ…

ARE TOMORROW'S ENGINEERS READY TO FACE AI'S ETHICAL CHALLENGES?

Our team finds engineering students are woefully unprepared for AI's ethical dilemmas & engr colleges often provide little serious training
w/elana goldenkoff cindy.finelli

theconversation.com/are-tomorrows-… - The Conversation U.S.

Thanks to Jane Thier for this great writeup in FORTUNE on the 'lowering meritocratic blinders' research-- how workplace harassment experiences increase white men's recognition and reporting of race and gender bias at work

#UmichSoc Associate Professor Erin Cech’s study finds that white men are more attuned to systemic race & gender bias after experiencing workplace harassment.

Explore her impactful work and fascinating findings!

➡️ myumi.ch/bEEdd

Erin A. Cech (she/her) and I are studying how engineering students and practitioners learn about their responsibilities to the public. We have a new article comparing the impact of different types of instruction - we need to do a better job educating engineers!
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📢Postdoc Opportunity!
Come work with our multidisciplinary (psych, soc, environ sci, hist, phil) UMich & Mich State team on our NSF-funded project investigating the effects of negative dept and team climate on early-career STEM folks. Apply now! careers.umich.edu/job_detail/245…

Thank you all for sharing your heartfelt words & stories of Xiaohong. His impact is deeply evident.

In honor of Professor Xu, and to ensure his legacy lives on for future generations, we have established the Xiaohong Xu Memorial Support Endowment Fund. myumi.ch/96r6z

Is following your work passion overrated? 'Employers who prioritize passion expect people to give more time and energy without being paid more,' says Erin A. Cech (she/her), author of THE TROUBLE WITH PASSION irishtimes.com/business/work/…

Virual and in person panel on #TheTroubleWithPassion , Wednesday Oct 25. Sponsored by Institute for Research on Women & Gender; registeration is free. Honored to discuss the book with Prof. Megan Killian and Prof. Harmony Reppond!

Join Erin A. Cech (she/her), Harmony Reppond, and me later this month for a panel discussion on Erin's book 'The Trouble with Passion- How Searching for Fulfillment at Work Fosters Inequality' irwg.umich.edu/events/trouble…

University of Michigan is hiring a new EER at Michigan faculty member to be embedded in one of traditional engineering departments at Michigan Engineering ! Read all about the position here eer.engin.umich.edu/faculty-hiring… and submit your application here deptapps.engin.umich.edu/facultycandida…

'Experts said the pandemic and the changes it advanced... might be encouraging people to rethink what passion for a job really means.' The New York Times
Thanks Alina Tugend for writing about
#TheTroubleWithPassion

nytimes.com/2023/08/03/bus…

'Is Following Your Work Passion Overrated?' Erin A. Cech (she/her), UMich sociologist and former Institute postdoc, in The New York Times on workplace lessons learned during the pandemic, including the perils of 'following your passion.' buff.ly/3s2MdiL