Archived news items and weekly updates for Spring 2008

Integrating new location-aware computer networks with old-fashioned human networks, researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed an innovative solution to the problem of isolation that faces women in the academic science and engineering workforce. The project, “NJIT Advance,” is funded by a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Women & STEM fields in the News -- list of articles

This webpage is a series of news stories. For example: "University and College Awards to STEM Women Faculty and ADVANCE Participants.

This webpage is a collection of news articles related to the SEEDS program being in the news.

This webpage is a list of up coming events, a list of conferences, job postings, and a list of news articles

This webpage is a list of links to the WISELI program being in the news.

This webpage highlights articles published in news outlets about women who are in science and engineering.

This webpage is a list of the Mizzou program in the news.

This webpage is a list of news announcements and up coming events.

This document is a list of Honors, Leadership Activities, Research and Scholarship, Keynote Addresses, Curriculum Development, and Contributions.

This webpage is a list of news, events, and past events like the Women in Industry Colloquia.

Highlighting accomplishments by CWRU women and efforts that promote a campus-wide culture of equity.

This webpage is a list of news articles from the current date until back to 2006. Example news articles are: "Mentoring Faculty on Proposal Writing: A Workshop for Department Chairs" and "Introducing ADVANCE at Brown

This webpage is a list of people who have been in the news for their achievements at the University of Miami.

This webpage holds links to current articles such as the 'chemistry of crime' and 'study finds overweight women more impulsive.'

A list of news stories about the Gender Equity Project.

This webpage is a list of articles where the SUN Network has appeared in the news.

This webpage is a list of items such as the yearly newsletter and news items such as workshops.

As a female professor, are you called rude and abrasive while your male colleagues who make similar statements are simply labeled assertive? Has your department head discouraged you from taking an assignment, saying that because you have children you might not be able to handle it?

This webpage is a collection of new items.

A list of past news articles from AdvanceVT.

This webpage is a long list of news articles about women in STEM departments.

UNCC ADVANCE News Archives

This webpage is a list of links to news articles about the LEADER program along with a list of past events.

The sections of this webpage include the year's newsletters and news items like the announcements of a new sponsorship program video.

UNC Charlotte ADVANCE News

This webpage is the homepage for this grant recipient. There are a list of news announcements and participating departments

This webpage is a list of past news articles.

You may think you’ve never suffered or inflicted it. But are you sure you even know what it is? Gender bias is not the same as sex discrimination. It’s more subtle, more deeply embedded in cultural norms about what it means to be identified as a woman or a man.

Archived news items and weekly updates for 2006-2007

This webpage is a list of links to articles and news of interest.

This webpage is a list of news update items. Examples include weekly updates and a stimulus program.

This webpage is a list of report magazines, events such as the student/faculty interaction workshop, and a list of other news.

Latest News from CU-ADVANCE

This webpage is a list of links to news articles on topics that might be of interest to people in the Mizzou ADVANCE program.

An article co-authored by ADVANCE Leadership Team member Kim Buch, UNC Charlotte Department of Psychology, and Diana Bilimoria of Case Western Reserve University, has been accepted for publication by Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning.

Letter of Welcome from Joan Lorden

This webpage is a list of news updates. An example is "ADVANCE seed-funding recipient wins NSF CAREER Award".

Workplace environment is one of several areas that the ADVANCE program at Utah State University focuses on. The program seeks to foster a workplace environment that increases both faculty effectiveness and gender equity.

This webpage is a series of news announcements about women who have won awards.

This webpage keeps track of up coming events and also news items about STEM women.

The ADVANCE Rising Tide Center homepage

ADVANCE Rising Tide Center - News

ADVANCE Rising Tide Center - Event Archives

Syracuse University's multi-disciplinary project, titled "The Inclusive Connective Corridor: Social Networks and the ADVANCEment of Women STEM Faculty," aims to change the face of the next generation of faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Syracuse University is one of seven universities funded by the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) 2010 ADVANCE competition. SU will receive a five-year, $3.4 million grant to ensure that women faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematic (STEM) fields have a greater presence at the University. The University has underscored its commitment by pledging support during the initial five years, and for an additional five years for a total of 10 years to achieve and institutionalize change.

Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering

University of Maryland ADVANCE homepage

University of Maryland ADVANCE Program news

The Association for Women in Computing is composed of a group of students who encourage women to enter and progress in the Computer Science field.

The Women in Engineering (WIE) program is dedicated to the recruitment and retention of women engineering students at the pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate levels.

Lehigh University ADVANCE homepage

Lehigh ADVANCE will provide funds to departments and interdisciplinary programs to invite advanced women graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) to give seminars and become familiar with Lehigh.

Lehigh ADVANCE aims to assess what the women STEM faculty are thinking and feeling about the climate for women at Lehigh. By conducting these interviews, the Leadership Team will learn about the strategies faculty have used to gain success in tenure track positions and also identify important themes ADVANCE should address. We will thereby ensure that events and toolkits are of continued value in achieving our goal of increasing recruitment and retention of women in STEM. If you are a woman faculty member in

Lehigh University ADVANCE News

Recent research published in Science by Deborah Kaminski and Cheryl Geisler about retention of STEM women faculty seems to suggest that women and men are retained and promoted at similar rates in most STEM disciplines, except for mathematics and math intensive fields. They found since 1990, from time of hire in science and engineering fields, median time to exit is about 11 years for women and men. In mathematics, 50% of faculty (male or female) depart their positions earlier than other disciplines, but wom

Lehigh ADVANCE was contacted by University Media Relations following a request by Kelsey Cruz to interview men STEM faculty who could comment on increasing representation of women in science. Dr. Hank Korth participated in a phone interview, and the work of Lehigh ADVANCE, the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program, and the ongoing efforts of other organizations and institutions are featured prominently in the final news story.

Lehigh ADVANCE is pleased to have selected the ADVANCE Chairs for 2012 and 2013: Dr. Kate Arrington, Associate Professor, Psychology; Dr. Kristen Jellison, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Jill Schneider, Professor Biological Sciences, and Dr. Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering join the leadership team and have the prime responsibility of co-organizing the ADVANCE Academic Symposium, currently scheduled for 2013.

Lehigh ADVANCE is pleased to have selected the ADVANCE Chairs for 2012 and 2013: Dr. Kate Arrington, Associate Professor, Psychology; Dr. Kristen Jellison, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Dr. Jill Schneider, Professor Biological Sciences, and Dr. Svetlana Tatic-Lucic, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering join the leadership team and have the prime responsibility of co-organizing the ADVANCE Academic Symposium, currently scheduled for 2013.

ELATE at Drexel™ is a one year part time Fellowship program designed to support the leadership development of senior women faculty in the fields of academic engineering, science, and technology. This exciting new program has attracted expert facilitators from these fields, and was recently awarded a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to implement rigorous research on the program’s impact and efficacy.

The Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society nominations are due! Please consider nominating your deserving undergraduate or graduate students, research scientists or post docs to become new/promoted associate or full members of Sigma Xi. Forms can be found at http://www.sigmaxi.org/member/join/nom.shtml

This week's issue of Nature features an interview with Nancy Hopkins, who is retiring this spring from MIT. In 2005 she famously walked out during a presentation by Larry Summers, then-president of Harvard University, when he suggested that innate differences might account for the lack of women in high-achieving roles in science. Read her reflections on her career as a women in molecular genetics.

On the centennial of Marie Curie’s second Nobel Prize, Lehigh President Alice P. Gast joined an influential group of leaders in New York City to advance the role and participation of women in the sciences. Read the full story from Lehigh News and discover how Lehigh ADVANCE plays a role in addressing the underrepresentation of women in the sciences and engineering.

he American Geophysical Union, AGU, along with the American Chemical Society, American Mathematical Society, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Mathematical Association of America, Society for Neuroscience, and Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics are examining whether gender bias affects selection of recipients of society awards.

In the December issue of the American Sociological Review, Offer and Scheider examine multi-tasking as a source of gender inequality which could help explain previous findings that mothers feel more burdened and stressed than fathers, even as fathers contribute more to child rearing and housework. News media including NPR and the LA Times reported this research on Friday morning.

Lehigh ADVANCE participated in the November 13-15th NSF ADVANCE Program Annual Meeting "Celebrating 10 Years of Broadening Participation and Inclusion" in Alexandria, VA. Distinguished speakers and guests represented minority serving institutions, ADVANCE Program evaluators, national professional societies, past and aspiring NSF ADVANCE Institutions from across the country and the Association for Women in Science.

The Lehigh NSF-ADVANCE Program seeks nominations and self-nominations of Lehigh tenured faculty for two positions as the 2012 ADVANCE Chairs in the Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM).

Dr. Amber Rice joined Lehigh University as Assistant Professor in Biological Sciences in Fall 2011. Her research aims to understand the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying the process of speciation. Lehigh ADVANCE approved Dr. Rice’s application for a Faculty Development travel grant to attend WEBS: Women Evolving Biological Sciences this November.

Twenty-four women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math gathered for the first Fall 2011 LU-WISE Luncheon hosted by ADVANCE on September 30th. Familiar faces were joined by new ones; our newest STEM woman faculty member attended, and faculty from Economics, Psychology, and Sociology/Anthropology participated as well. The group shared lunch with Dr. Alice Gast, Professor of Chemical Engineering and President of Lehigh University.

On September 26th, First Lady Michelle Obama introduced the National Science Foundation's new policies to promote work-life balance and reduce the number of women who abandon science careers. Today, women earn 41% of PhD’s in STEM fields, but make up only 28% of tenure-track faculty in those fields. However, women in STEM jobs earn 33 percent more than those in non-STEM occupations and the wage gap between men and women in STEM jobs is smaller than in other fields.

Lehigh will kick off a year-long celebration commemorating the 40th anniversary of undergraduate women at Lehigh with events this weekend and the launch of a new website.

Starting August 25, 2011, Lehigh ADVANCE is accepting applications for a new small grant to help STEM faculty move from discussion of interdisciplinary collaboration and leadership in meetings and seminars to action that has an impact on their careers.

Now is the time for Lehigh's STEM women faculty to enroll in I-WISEN, the Interdisciplinary Women in Science and Engineering Network. I-WISEN will be launched in Fall 2011.

LU-WISE Luncheons will be held monthly starting in September 2011. Women STEM faculty, adjuncts, professors of practice, and post-doctoral researchers are invited to informal luncheons to become familiar with one another and share experiences. At Lehigh STEM disciplines are: Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Mathematics, Physics, Psychology, Sociology/Anthropology, Economics, and the disciplines within the College of Engineering.

The first in a series of exciting leadership development sessions was held May 18, 2011 in support of the ADVANCE -Institutional Transformation grant funded by the National Science Foundation. The workshop was entitled “The Connective Leadership Styles of Faculty: Leading Change” and was attended by 27 STEM faculty and department chairs from across ranks.

The first in a series of exciting leadership development sessions was held May 18, 2011 in support of the ADVANCE -Institutional Transformation grant funded by the National Science Foundation. The workshop was entitled “The Connective Leadership Styles of Faculty: Leading Change” and was attended by 27 STEM faculty and department chairs from across ranks.

Lehigh University's Natalie Foster contributed to a recent Journal of Chemical Education article exploring the situation for current and future female faculty in chemistry and chemical engineering departments.

Have you ever asked, "Who are the prominent women in physics?" Lehigh ADVANCE is happy to include in our links a unique resource: CONTRIBUTIONS OF 20th CENTURY WOMEN TO PHYSICS by Nina Byers, UCLA, and colleagues.

Today, Lehigh ADVANCE launched the faculty surveys which will enable key research questions to be answered about the Gendering of Collaborative and Interdisciplinary Research and about the culture and climate of Lehigh.

According to the latest census figures, among U.S. adults 25 and older, more women (10.6 million) than men (10.5 million) have earned master's degrees or higher and continue to complete bachelor's degrees at higher rates than men.

Katherine Rausch, WeNews correspondent, writes about the roles of women in the development, marketing and distribution of the Chevrolet Volt.

A Report on the Status of Women Faculty in the Schools of Science and Engineering at MIT, 2011: The New York Times featured an article summarizing the outcomes and new challenges brought about by 10 years of improved policies and climate for women at MIT. The full report is also available for free.

Does describing the challenges (real or perceived) women face while pursuing scientific careers drive women away? Alice Huang’s editorial in the February 18, 2011 issue of Science addresses the question of why women should still bother. To read the full article, a subscription to Science is required.

As part of its annual effort to spark young girls’ interest in engineering, Lehigh’s chapter of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is hosting its annual CHOICES event (Charting Horizons and Opportunities in Careers in Engineering and Science) for more than 60 middle school girls across the Lehigh Valley area.

Lehigh ADVANCE aims to assess what the women STEM faculty are thinking and feeling about the climate for women at Lehigh. By conducting these interviews, the Leadership Team will learn about the strategies faculty have used to gain success in tenure track positions and also identify important themes ADVANCE should address. We will thereby ensure that events and toolkits are of continued value in achieving our goal of increasing recruitment and retention of women in STEM. If you are a woman faculty member in

The P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science will be counted among sponsoring organizations of the upcoming Women’s International Research Engineering summit, to be held in Orlando, Florida at the end of March 2011. The WIRES summits are international summits for women who are interested in pursuing international collaborative researching opportunities.

As a recipient of an NSF ADVANCE-IT Grant, Lehigh ADVANCE has formed a Lehigh University “Women in Science and Engineering, WISE” group in Spring 2011. The LU-WISE Lunch Series will build community by cultivating a friendly atmosphere to enable participants to learn about women scientists’ and engineers’ research areas of interest and to participate in informal dialogue and exploration of new ideas while reducing isolation. Lehigh ADVANCE aims to host 2 – 3 LU-WISE luncheons per semester.

Lehigh ADVANCE is privileged to count Jo Handelsman, Yale University, as an Advisor to our program. Dr. Handelsman is among 11 individuals and four organizations President Barack Obama named as recipients of the prestigious Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).

Through the Lehigh ADVANCE Recruitment Seminar award, Amy Betz, PhD Candidate, Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science, will visit the MEM department to provide a seminar in February 2011. Contact Dr. Oztekin for seminar details.

Lehigh ADVANCE will provide funds to departments and interdisciplinary programs to invite advanced women graduate students and postdoctoral scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) to give seminars and become familiar with Lehigh.

The Texas A&M ADVANCE program is an interdisciplinary collaboration among departments in STEM fields of study (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and is funded by the National Science Foundation. We are guided by the American Psychological Association's evidence-based Psychologically Healthy Workplace (PHW) practices. We are focused on creating a better workplace for everyone by promoting faculty growth and development, health and well-being, involvement, recognition, and work-life balance.

Texas A&M News page

The Jackson State University ADVANCE project is a five year program funded by grant from NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation designed to enhance the overall work climate for women faculty in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and the Social and Behavioral Science (SBS) disciplines, while informing the larger academic community about issues that are relevant to women at HBCUs.

News & Events on the JSU ADVANCE website

Announcements for AAFAWCE upcoming events and news

Georgia Tech Advance News