On October 1, CASBS fellow Mary Murphy was the featured guest on Inside Higher Ed’s “Academic Minute.”
In the recorded audio segment, Murphy explores how women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields can feel marginalized. Listen to the segment here.
Murphy’s work focuses on developing and testing theories about how people’s social identities and group memberships interact with the contexts they encounter to affect their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, physiology, and motivation. This year she received $2.2 million from the National Science Foundation to investigate subtle environmental signals that discourage women from entering or remaining in careers in STEM fields.
Murphy is associate professor of psychological and brain sciences at Indiana University.