Claude Steele, internationally renowned social scientist and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, will discuss his theory of stereotype threat, which has been the focus of much of his research and writing throughout his academic career. The theory examines how people from different groups, being threatened by different stereotypes, can have quite different experiences in the same situation. It has also been used to understand group differences in performance ranging from the intellectual to the athletic. Steele's recent book, "Whistling Vivaldi: And Other Clues to How Stereotypes Affect Us and what we Can Do," published in 2010, was based on this research and lays out a plan to mitigate the negative effects of "stereotype threat".

Listen to Joseph Kerman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Music, UC Berkeley, talk about the Takács Quartet's 2005 two concert series featuring Beethoven's string quartet program including No. 2 in G major, Op. 18 and No. 13 in B-flat major, Op. 130. The concerts were presented by Cal Performances. (Length: 6:56; 2005)

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2010 Conference on Global Health Diagnostics "GHDx Innovations Summit: Translating Ideas into Impact" Bernhard Weigl, Principal Investigator, PATH Center for Point-of-Care Diagnostics "Point-of-Care Diagnostics for Global Health" http://globalhealth.berkeley.edu/cend/ Clifton Barry, National Institutes of Health - "Dirty by design: Rational Approach to Development of Antitubercular Nitroimidazoles" http://globalhealth.berkeley.edu/cend/ ...