Amer Chemical Society

This project focuses on improving the hiring, promotion and retention of women faculty members in academe. To achieve this goal the best practices currently in use will be identified by conducting site-visits at 35 Research Extensive and Intensive universities and by publicly recognizing departments of chemistry and chemical engineering having positive environments supportive of women faculty members. In addition, participating schools will be given confidential feedback on the environment for women at their institution as well as the general findings from this study. A toolkit will be developed for all institutions to use to identify strengths and weaknesses in their practices with respect to women faculty and to suggest ways they can assist new and mid-career faculty members. Overall assessments of the data from the on-site visits will be prepared for publication, highlighting successful best practices, and presentations will be given at national meetings of the American Chemical Society (ACS).

Amer Economic Association

CeMENT: Workshops for Female Untenured Faculty in Economics
This proposal is designed to aid in this transition and bring economics to parity with other sciences in this area. The proposal involves workshops at the national (ASSA) meetings and at regional economics association meetings that will be attended by selected junior faculty, and which will serve to connect them with senior and mid-career researchers and to each other. These workshops will offer resources, information, and networking opportunities to enhance careers and improve the chances of professional success, and will create and cement relationships between senior and junior faculty and between and among junior faculty as well.

Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ)

The primary goal of this proposal is to create a self-sustaining mentoring program for women in the Department of Biology at Arizona State University.

Association for Women in Science, Inc.

This project developed surveys for assessing the institutional climate for undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty.

Auburn University (Auburn, AL)

The project aims to improve the recruitment and retention of women in engineering academia and to enhance career development of women engineering academics by addressing publications in refereed scholarly journals.

Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA)

This award is to continue the work of Bryn Mawr College in the promotion and support of the next generation of women in the mathematical sciences. The award supports the outreach, mentoring, and research projects of Professor Rhonda Hughes of the Department of Mathematics.

Clark Atlanta University (Atlanta, GA)

Women Faculty in STEM Fields: The HBCU Baseline Study
It is the purpose of this one-year ADVANCE Leadership Award to propose to investigate the status of women STEM faculty at the 106 Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Specifically, this project will seek to determine if (a) Clark Atlanta University, one of only three doctoral granting HBCUs, is representative of other HBCUs, and if (b) HBCUs, as a group, reflect the status of women faculty in science and engineering at majority institutions.

Computer Resource Association (Washington, D.C.)

From associate to Full Professor with Distinguished Faculty Leading the Way
The Computer Research Association proposes to address the problem of too few full professor women faculty by creating the Associate Professor Cohort Program. This program aims to increase the percentage of women faculty holding degrees in Computer Science and Engineering with the rank of full professor by forming and mentoring a cohort of women from the associate professor ranks.

George Washington University and Gallaudet University (Washington, D.C.)

This award supports the development and implementation of a workshop for prospective and current female professors in science and engineering fields as part of the NSF ADVANCE Leadership Awards Program by a group of researchers from the George Washington University and Gallaudet University who have collaborated for the past five years on projects to increase the numbers of women and other underrepresented minorities in advanced Science, Engineering and Mathematics (SEM) careers.

North Carolina State University (Raleigh, NC)

This is a proposal to support an expansion of the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Project in the Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) Program at North Carolina State University. The WISE project promotes the advancement of women and people of color in science and engineering through the integration of women's studies into the undergraduate and graduate curriculum via faculty development seminars.

Pennsylvania State University, University Park

Collaborative Research: Women in Cognitive Science
Women in Cognitive Science (WICS) is an organization created by the Co-PIs of this proposal in 2001 and is affiliated with the Psychonomic Society. The goal of WICS is to enhance the success of women scientists who are pursuing careers in cognitive science, experimental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. The proposal describes a program which aims to sustain and extend WICS.

San Jose State University Foundation (San Jose, CA)

MentorNet ACE: Academic Career E-Mentoring for Women in Science and Engineering
MentorNet (www.MentorNet.net) was founded in 1997 as an innovative large-scale electronic mentoring strategy, pairing women studying engineering and related sciences at colleges and universities with female and male professionals in industry for yearlong, structured mentoring relationships, conducted via email. MentorNet has grown into an online community, leveraging its extensive web site, email, and other electronic communications technologies and related systems and software to offer structured one-on-one, group and peer mentoring for its members on a large scale.

Spelman College (Atlanta, GA)

The program aims to increase the number of women and the number of African American students who complete bachelor's degrees in mathematics and who enter into and persist in graduate programs in the sciences, mathematics and engineering.

State University of New York, Stonybrook

Collaborative Research: Women in Cognitive Science
The goal of WICS is to enhance the success of women scientists who are pursuing careers in cognitive science, experimental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. The proposal describes a program which aims to sustain and extend WICS.

Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)

The aim of the Mentoring and Leadership Program is to sustain and broaden the existing initiatives at Syracuse University to promote the advancement of women faculty in engineering and sciences.

Tulane University (New Orleans, LA)

To provide advancement programs for women and minority faculty in science and engineering at Tulane University.

University of California, Santa Barbara

The primary goal of this proposal is to create a self-sustaining mentoring program for women in the Department of Biology at Arizona State University.

University of California, Davis

This award supports the development of a new database of science and engineering department chairs and the development and administration of a comprehensive survey of department chairs.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

This proposal seeks to develop an ADVANCE Leadership Initiative for Minority Female Environmental Faculty (LIMFEF) that is aimed at enhancing the presence and stature of minority female faculty in American academic institutions. The initiative will focus on Black, Hispanic and Native American faculty in environmental departments and schools, and will pursue the following goals in addressing barriers faced by minority women in developing professional careers in academia. o Conduct a national study to determine the status of female minority environmental faculty, o Develop a national database with contact information of minority female environmental faculty, o Develop a clickable e-book of minority female environmental faculty featuring profiles of "pioneers" in the field and "rising stars," o Convene a national conference of minority female environmental faculty to discuss the results of the study, network, develop mentoring relationships, and craft leadership strategies.

University of Missouri, Kansas City

Senior Women Faculty
The proposed activity is to create an annual leadership institute for senior tenured women faculty in NSF-supported disciplines with the purpose of increasing the representation of women in higher education leadership positions (chair, dean, etc.), and supporting the ADVANCE goal of facilitating women's advancement to the highest ranks of academic leadership.

University of Nebraska, Lincoln

The project proposes to educate women geoscientists on the barriers to their progress in academia and on strategies to overcome those barriers. Their goal is to increase the proportion of women in geoscience tenure track and tenured positions in academia in the United States.

University of Oregon, Eugene

To increase the participation and advancement of women in the chemical sciences through her leadership role in COACh.

University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)

Collaborative Research: Leadership Skills and Community Building Program for Junior Women Engineering Faculty in Engineering
The goal of this proposed work is to establish a regionally-organized, self-sustaining leadership training program for junior women faculty in engineering disciplines.

University of Wisconsin, Madison

This award provides support for reconfiguration and revitalization of a project called Women in Linguistics Mentoring Alliance (WILMA).

Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA)

Collaborative Research: Leadership Skills and Community Building Program for Junior Women Engineering Faculty in Engineering
The goal of this proposed work is to establish a regionally-organized, self-sustaining leadership training program for junior women faculty in engineering disciplines.

William Marsh Rice University (Houston, TX)

Collaborative Research: Leadership Skills andCommunity Building Program for Junior Women Engineering Faculty in Engineering

Women in Cognitive Science (WICS) is an organization created by the Co-PIs of this proposal in 2001 and is affiliated with the Psychonomic Society. The goal of WICS is to enhance the success of women scientists who are pursuing careers in cognitive science, experimental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. The proposal describes a program which aims to sustain and extend WICS.

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