These competitive research grants are awarded to interdisciplinary research teams whose work addresses issues of gender in the academy. The goals are to develop interdisciplinary research teams, engage faculty members in research on gender, and demonstrate the value of research on gender to a gendered institution.

ESCALATE is a grant-funded initiative designed to improve the advancement of women in academic careers in science and engineering by focusing on an institutional climate change. The ESCALATE initiative addresses two central issues that interfere with building a faculty representative of society: 1: Women’s isolation from information and collegiality networks needed for success in academic science and engineering. 2: Lack of awareness about how cultures of academic science and engineering impact women and ab

The goals of the sponsored colloquia program are to increase the visibility of women in STEM departments, strengthen the networking and career opportunities for women in the STEM disciplines, and bring new ideas to BU from industry and other ADVANCE schools.

This webpage is a table of programs, a link to their webpage, their descriptions, and their deadlines that faculty and students can apply to that are specific for West Virginia residents. Examples include the National Academies Fellowship Office and the American Association of University Women.

To foster an awareness of the ways in which unconscious bias and equity at the departmental level may influence the recruitment and retention of a diverse faculty.

This webpage is a table of programs, a link to their webpage, their descriptions, and their deadlines that faculty and students can apply to. Examples include MU NASA and Women in Biomedical Centers.

This webpage is a table of programs, a link to their webpage, their descriptions, and their deadlines that faculty and students can apply to that are specific for West Virginia residents. Examples include the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission and WV Space Grant Commission.

The Leadership Program provides different mechanisms of support to encourage women faculty who are interested in pushing their careers to the next level by becoming academic administrators or assuming some role of scholarly scientific leadership in the national community.

We will award two Seed Grants in the amount of $35,000 each. The PI on the grant should be a tenured or tenure-track female faculty member at the UA. The proposed research should be interdisciplinary and collaborative, with at least one other faculty member. The start date for the funded proposal will be August 1, 2009.

The Gender Equity Project's (GEP's) Sponsorship Program has as its goal the professional development of women engaged in basic science at Hunter College.

An informational brochure about the ISU ADVANCE Scholar Program and application process.

This booklet is a set of tips on how to best apply for grant funding. Examples include "create an application timeline" and "Do not try to do everything at once.

This report details the outcomes for the Vilas Life Cycle Professorship program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the Estate of William F. Vilas. We present this report in three sections...

The purpose of this award is to sponsor research in any discipline by women faculty and research or service focused on gender equity by all faculty within the three ADVANCE departments.

ADVANCE-Nebraska funds up to $3,000 for departments to develop and execute their own recruitment strategies to diversify applicant pools. The faculty who apply are encouraged to identify the specific challenges for recruiting women to their department applicant pools and to develop a plan that is informed by best practices and national research to address these challenges.

A Transition Faculty Research Award is available to sponsor research and scholarship activities that will enhance the professional growth of non-tenure-track (transition) women faculty leading to their promotion.

Brown University's ADVANCE Program has created an award to help faculty networking and relationships. "Career Development Awards are intended to help faculty increase their exposure to senior colleagues at other institutions who can serve as collaborators, role models and sponsors. These awards could be particularly useful for Assistant Professors who are beginning to build their research program or for mid-career faculty moving in a more collaborative direction or trying to make contacts in a different res

...invites groups of faculty and staff to compete for funds to support a significant transformation in the environment for diversity in science and engineering, including improvement of climate and mentoring, and an increase in the number of diverse faculty or students recruited, retained and/or promoted.

Proposals are being solicited that inquire into faculty issues both nationally in the discipline and within the corresponding UA department. Possible areas of inquiry include comparisons of the national labor pool to department level hiring pools, hiring procedures, promotion and tenure procedures, and departmental climate for women and minorities. Previous successful studies in the College of Science focused on analyzing the composition of applicant pools across units or within units over time and analyzin

In support of the efforts of the ADVANCE Program, the Council for Research especially encourages Career Enhancement/Research Proposal Development proposals that satisfy the general ADVANCE principles of increasing diversity and promoting equity campus wide. These principles include: the need to support underrepresented faculty research and provide them with career development and training...

This report details the outcomes for the Vilas Life Cycle Professorship program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the Estate of William F. Vilas. We present this report in three sections...

This presentation covers some of the best practices for applying for and receiving funding from the NSF.

The ADVANCE Program provides funding for women scientists and engineers at Columbia in the form of leadership opportunities and support for continued research productivity.

Funded by the National Science Foundation, the ADVANCE Women-in-Science Travel Grant Program is designed to help women faculty to expand their professional networks and enhance their visibility.

This document is a spreadsheet of relevant grants and their meta-information

To help encourage others at the University of Wisconsin to participate in WISELI, a Celebrating Women in Science and Engineering grant was established. People can apply to this grant to create new workshops, symposia, lecture series, or other event that helps encourage women. Lists of previous awardees, requirements, and the application can be found on this website.

ADVANCE provided funding to support newly hired Faculty Fellows for up to 3 years in departments that had been approved by the Provost for an appointment. Our goal was to develop high-potential candidates who would then transition into tenure-track faculty positions. Selected Fellows were hired...

Winning proposals for the “You Choose Leadership Awards" were superb and ranged widely in their goals and scopes, from those with pivotal importance for individuals to those with potential to enhance entire communities. Each winner will speak about her award and experiences in our next UM-wide SEEDS event.

This document announces the success of a program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison called the Life Cycle Research Grant. The goal is to help women who have had some life crisis while running for tenure with a grant of around $30,000. Information about this program is summarized in this document for the 2005 PI meeting in Panel 1.

This webpage is a list of three grants offered to faculty: advance distinguished lectureships, advance opportunity fund, and department initiative grants.

What have been the effects of ADVANCE at the University of Michigan? To help answer that question, this report focuses on one of the interventions outlined in the original NSF proposal: Departmental Transformation Grants. These grants involved substantial awards (up to $250,000) to departments that made rigorous, specific and ambitious proposals for improving their own internal policies, practices and climates, based on analyses of the current situation and recent past.

Vilas Life Cycle Professorships program at WISELI provides research support for professors whose research careers have been impacted by their personal lives.

“The ADVANCE Distinguished Lectureships were to support campus visits by up to 10 senior women faculty or underrepresented minority faculty a year. Distinguished Lectureships had previously been awarded to science and engineering departments hosting only senior women scientists or engineers. However, as part of ACES ongoing efforts to extend climate change initiatives university wide, in later years we invited faculty from all disciplines at the university to nominate senior women and under represented mino

Information about a grant through the University of Arizona’s ADVANCE program that works to make STEM women more noticeable and to increase their networks. “We will establish a small grants program to support competitive proposals that successfully combine an interdisciplinary problem area with contributions to the University's goals under the ADVANCE program—in other words, contributions to the career development of women, especially from underrepresented groups, in STEM fields. This program will require t

The UAB ADVANCE Junior Faculty Research Award is open to all tenure-track faculty who hold the rank of assistant or associate professor within the Schools of Engineering, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social and Behavioral Sciences (ADVANCE Schools and the Department of Finance, Economics, Quantitative Methods in the School of Business).

Iowa State University was one of two universities to be awarded a $25,000 award for innovative practices from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Iowa State University was selected for a creative database...

The Bonnie Cone Fellowships support activities that enhance the careers of individual STEM female faculty.

A semester-long comprehensive Grant Writing Assistance Program (GWAP) for junior women scientists at CUNY can help you. As part of a newly awarded grant from NSF to Hunter College and CUNY, the Gender Equity Project GEP) has developed a program to provide 6 full-time junior women with the resources and information they need to write a successful proposal.

The policy statement above, approved by the Administration, is the beginning of a URI Dual Career Hiring Program, which was identified in the University's 2006-2009 Strategic Plan as a goal under Initiative III, Create a More Inclusive Environment. In collaboration with the President's Commission on...

This handout covers tips on how to write grants. Examples include: "The panel that you submit to matters; some groups will be more receptive to your work than others" and "Find out for each funder whether you will submit a hard or electronic copy.

This webpage is a list of links for various funding opportunities.

MU-ADVANCE Faculty Fellowships are available for non-tenured female faculty in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines seeking to enhance their professional development. The purpose of the Fellowships is to foster the professional development and success of female STEM faculty at Marshall while preparing for tenure.

This report details the outcomes for the Vilas Life Cycle Professorship program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by the Estate of William F. Vilas. We present this report in three sections...

Recruitment funding was a particularly successful aspect of ADVANCE. We provided monetary support to departments that were planning to diversify their faculty through the hiring of qualified women. During the first year of the ADVANCE Recruitment Program, each of the four colleges below were given...

The NSF ADVANCE Program at the Earth Institute at Columbia University provides funding for women scientists and engineers in the form of leadership opportunities and support for continued research productivity. Funding is available for research workshops for Spring 2009.

This presentation covers an overview of funding opportunities at NSF, investment areas, and how to meet their criteria.

ADVANCE has developed a comprehensive Faculty Mentoring Program, launched in 2007. Although excellent mentoring programs currently exist in many places at URI, we would like to offer assistance to colleges who would like to increase their mentoring efforts...

The goal of NSF ADVANCE is to “increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers”. This award program is to provide travel awards to promote the advancement of women faculty in STEM departments.

“As part of Georgia Tech's NSF ADVANCE Program faculty may apply for funding available for supplementing teaching loads related to childbirth or family leave. These applications must be approved by chair, dean and provost. This funding is limited and must be shared across Colleges based on number of requests and departmental budgetary constraints.” Information about the program is organized into the categories of Active Service - Modified Duties Statement of Intent, Procedure, What to include in your reques

This document is a list of information about this grant program.

This webpage is a list of funding opportunities at Marshall University by their ADVANCE program. “The Faculty Development Initiative includes multiple approaches to help new faculty balance and integrate teaching and research responsibilities, improve time management and life balance, and to foster collaboration among STEM faculty.”

ACES has given out Departmental Initiative Grants (DIGs) for department-wide activities in the 31 NSF-fundable Science and Engineering departments. These grants advanced the ACES mission and goals and supported initiatives to improve climate, enhance collegiality, stimulate greater inclusion of women and minority faculty, and promote positive department change.

One critical initiative, related to the mission of WISELI, was the creation of the Life Cycle Research Grant (LCRG) program.

“MU-ADVANCE Mini-Grants are available for female faculty in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines seeking to enhance networking (e.g., travel to national meetings), grant proposal submissions, interdisciplinary research efforts, or manuscript preparation. For non-tenured faculty, these activities are expected to tangibly enhance faculty careers. Collaborative-projects which involve more than one faculty member may request support for shared research and/or teaching interes

The Leadership Support Fund provides tenured and tenure-track women science and engineering faculty with the means to attend Leadership Programs or Academic Administration Training provided by other institutions

CWRU’s ADVANCE program presented their initiatives to increase women in STEM at the 2007 PI Meeting. These initiatives (ex: department initiatives grants) span all the way from the top of academia down to campus.

Annual Reports from Dr. Margaret Beier and her ADVANCE funded Mini Research Project: ". Differences in the number of male and female faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines can be examined as a function of the number of women who pursue these academic fields of study. Previous research suggests that differences in confidence...

Career Development Awards are intended to help faculty increase their exposure to senior colleagues at other institutions who can serve as collaborators, role models and sponsors. These awards could be particularly useful for Assistant Professors who are beginning to build their research program or for mid-career faculty moving in a more collaborative direction or trying to make contacts in a different research area.

Professional development grants are available to offset costs of meeting with a mentor who is not at NDSU, to undertake research, or to establish and maintain relationships with relevant professionals outside NDSU. These grants will supplement other sources ...

In cases where a regular faculty appointment was more appropriate than a Faculty Fellow, and if a high-quality female candidate was selected during a regular STEM faculty search, ADVANCE offered funding supplements to the new-hire's start-up package in order to provide a more attractive offer. Offers...

Rice ADVANCE offers travel support for female faculty to attend leadership programs. This webpage provides criteria and the processes involved with being awarded a travel grant.

This webpage is a table of programs, a link to their webpage, their descriptions, and their deadlines that faculty and students can apply to that are specific for Marshall University. Examples include MU NASA and Marshall University Cell Differentiation and Development Center.

Taking on a position of scientific leadership such as becoming president or vice president of a scientific society or professional organization, or assuming editorship of a journal can be essential elements in advancing a scientist’s academic career. However, these opportunities often require significant investments of time that may hinder one’s research. Some scientists decide to turn down leadership opportunities due to the competing demands of their own labs or academic commitments.

This flier explains a grant that is set up through Grand Valley State University and the University of Michigan to help women in STEM fields who would like to go into a teaching position in academia. The flier was discussed at the 2008 ADVANCE PI Meeting.

The ADVANCE Program provides funding for women scientists and engineers at Columbia in the form of leadership opportunities and support for continued research productivity. Funding is available for: (1) research workshop leadership, (2) childcare or eldercare expenses incurred during fieldwork or extended travel to professional meetings: now provided by the Office of Work/Life, (3) transition support during times of family care-giving (e.g., childbirth, adoption, or eldercare)

The purpose of this program is to bring distinguished female scientists and engineers to the UAB campus in order to increase the visibility of women scholars within the hosting department/school and to provide UAB faculty with the opportunity to interact with these scholars.

This summative assessment report describes AdvanceVT's research seed grant program for pre-tenure faculty and its outcomes.

This flier explains a grant that is set up through Grand Valley State University and the University of Michigan to help women in STEM fields who would like to go into a teaching position in academia. The flier was discussed at the 2008 ADVANCE PI Meeting.

This document is a spreadsheet of relevant grants and their meta-information

This page is a holder for links to information about funding opportunities at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

To enhance research productivity, the course release program offers a one-semester, one-time teaching release for up to five STEM women annually. The course release program is open to women assistant professors who have had a positive third year review

Hunter College’s ADVANCE Program provided small grants to help support and set up mentor pairs. Provided in this presentation is background information, measures of change, testimonials, observations, and challenges.

The Skidmore Union Network offers the following grant opportunities to female assistant and associate professors in the STEM disciplines at Skidmore and Union Colleges. The Visit Here or There Grants are available to assistant and associate professors. At both institutions, the Advanced Education Grants are available to associate professors at both institutions, and the Teaching Load Modification Grants are available to Union College assistant and associate professors.

Elizabeth Crosby Faculty Grants are available to individual faculty members to support a range of activities aimed at improving the environment for career satisfaction and success of a diverse faculty in science and engineering fields. Support may be requested for: programs and projects aimed at improving the career success of diverse faculty, especially for women and other members of under-represented groups, including efforts to support the special child or other dependent care associated with work-relate

The current focus of this grant is to assist department heads in targeted departments with identifying, attracting and recruiting top-notch diverse faculty candidates for tenure-track positions in their departments.

UAB ADVANCE faculty research awards have assisted tenure-track and tenured faculty, as well as new faculty, in the Schools of Engineering, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Department of Finance, Economics, and Quantitative Methods in the School of Business. The purpose of these awards is to provide support for research for women faculty in the targeted schools and departments.

The ADVANCEing Faculty Grant Writing Program targets junior faculty seeking federal funding who have either: 1. not previously received federal funding, or 2. are applying for a significantly higher level of federal funding, or 3. are applying in a new and significantly different program for federal funding.

The goal of NSF ADVANCE is to “increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers”. This award program is to provide professional development grants to promote the advancement of women faculty in STEM departments.

The Advancing Diversity and Excellence in Science and Engineering Initiative, co- sponsored by the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) and ADVANCE at the University of Michigan, invites groups of faculty and staff to compete for funds to support a significant transformation in the environment for diversity in science and engineering, including improvement of climate and mentoring, and an increase in the number of diverse faculty or students recruited, retained and/or promoted.

This presentation reviews the logistics of grants through the National Science Foundation. It was presented at the 2008 ADVANCE PI meeting on a session of the PI Grants Management.

The New York University NSF Advance Challenge Grants are intended to provide seed funds to women scientists to conduct new projects to enhance their ability to compete successfully for external funding.

As part of the ADVANCE project, a research fellowships program is being initiated to support research investigating issues on the departmental level. Proposals are being solicited that inquire into faculty issues both nationally in the discipline and within the corresponding UA department.

Mary Erskine WIN Faculty Grants are available to tenure track women faculty members in the STEM disciplines at Boston University to support a variety of research activities. These awards are intended to enhance the professional networks of women faculty members, removing a barrier to women’s accomplishments, and ultimately increasing the diversity of faculty in the science and engineering fields...

This document is form to apply for the Professional Development Grant

Information about a mini-grant offered through Rice University’s ADVANCE program is explained in this document. Sections include Funding Amount and Administration, Who is eligible to apply, Selection criteria, How to apply, and contact information.

Tenure-track or tenured women faculty in STEM disciplines may apply for a competitive Leap Grant; each grant awards up to $30,000. A total of 3-6 grants per year will be awarded to enhance research productivity and lead to advancement. Priority will be given to Assistant Professors...

This page lists opportunities outside the University of Miami.

The ADVANCING Leaders Program trains 12 tenured participants from the Las Cruces and Doña Ana campuses annually. This year-long leadership program was established in 2004 and has trained more than 40 faculty to date, with up to two participants from each of the six academic colleges and DACC participating per year.

ADVANCE-Nebraska selects candidates from STEM departments to be Recruitment Ambassadors. Recruitment Ambassadors will receive $2,000 per department for a Recruitment Ambassador (faculty member) to attend one or more national conferences (depending on how you'd like to use the funds) to seek high quality doctoral candidates, post-docs, or appropriate level faculty to apply to UNL. We suggest that departments send representatives who will recruit for openings this academic year and for potential openings beyo

This presentation from the 2009 PI Meeting covers: goals, proposals, intellectual merit, broader impacts, special review criteria, project evaluation, and example awards.

The LEADER Consortium provides various funding programs that support STEM women faculty. The Annual Mini-Grant Program is a consortium-level program that is open to all STEM faculty and provides grant awards of up to $5,000. Other funding programs are institutional-level and are open only to STEM faculty at the granting institution.

Sample titles from slides in this presentation are logistics, opportunities, and time frame.

A Transition Faculty Research Award is available to sponsor research and scholarship activities that will enhance the professional growth of non-tenure-track (transition) women faculty leading to their promotion. Awards supporting research in the area of a faculty member's specialization as well as scholarly work on issues of gender equity in the academy will be considered. At this level, an award of up to $7,500 will be made and require a match of 50% from the department and/or school.

The goal of NSF ADVANCE is to “increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers”. This award program is to provide leadership development grants to promote the advancement of women faculty in STEM departments.

The ADVANCE Dependent Care Travel program provides financial assistance to primary caregivers in the scientific fields to help defray dependent care costs associated with traveling to a professional conference or meeting to advance their academic careers. This is a pilot initiative administered by the Office of the Dean for Science.

In this presentation is a discussion of the Faculty Fellows Program set up through the University of Rhode Island’s ADVANCE program. This program works to increase the number of women recruited into STEM departments with incentives for the application and leverage on the department. What worked, advice, and impact are also discussed at the end. This presentation was given at the 2008 PI Meeting.

AdvanceVT research seed grants provided funding to support junior faculty developing a successful proposal for external research funding. This follow-up report provides an overview of the program and its impact on pre-tenure faculty members at Virginia Tech.

The UAB ADVANCE Junior Faculty Research Award is open to all tenure-track faculty who hold the rank of assistant or associate professor within the Schools of Engineering, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Social and Behavioral Sciences (ADVANCE Schools and the Department of Finance, Economics, Quantitative Methods in the School of Business).

This webpage is a list of grants that are currently being offered to apply for.

The aim of the program is to provide career development through mentoring relationships with off-campus science leaders who will provide advice and facilitate the formation of collaborative research efforts.

The New York University NSF ADVANCE Diversity Science Research Grant is intended to provide seed funds to women social, behavioral and education scientists to conduct new projects that seek to explore the reasons why women are underrepresented in the STEM fields. Projects appropriate for funding consideration include (but are not limited to) case-control program evaluation of pedagogical strategies to engage and retain women...

The goal of NSF ADVANCE is to “increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers”. Research shows that department “climate” plays a significant role in a faculty member’s satisfaction, productivity and success in their career.

ADVANCE invites proposals from faculty and/or science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) departments interested in initiating changes to better support the advancement of female faculty in STEM departments.

This webpage is an impressive list of links to places to apply for funding with only some of the links being specific to the University of Colorado.

Project PACE has provided travel funds to allow additional women candidates the opportunity to interview for positions as tenure-track faculty in UM science departments.

Information on various speaker series offered through the University of Arizona's ADVANCE Program are listed with information on how to nominate a speaker.

“Opportunity grants were established to maximize the chance of success for women faculty at Case by providing support of current or proposed projects and activities where funding is difficult to obtain through other sources. $60,000 was available in this fund, and ACES made multiple awards. All women faculty, including instructors and research faculty, were eligible to apply.” Testimonials and lists of the awardees is included on this webpage.

NSF Advance Professional Development Grants are a means to address women's under-representation in the academic sciences and engineering. The grants are available to help meet career-relevant needs of individual faculty that, if met, will increase the participation and advancement of women faculty in science and engineering at Grand Valley State University.

The goal of NSF ADVANCE is to “increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers”. The careers of female and male faculty members are sometimes interrupted by major life events.

Annual Reports from Dr. Dan Beal on his ADVANCE funded Mini Research Project: "The current project's goal is to understand how gender differences in emotion perception may play a role in the high-stakes testing process. High-stakes testing, particularly in mathematics, plays a pivotal role in determining who enters graduate STEM programs...

Advancement includes promotion of females to full professorship and positions of University leadership. Included in the ADVANCE grant funding are monies to support Graduate Research Assistantships for qualifying faculty...." Reports from 2004 to 2008 are available.

On May 12, 2005, ADVANCE and the URI Research Office jointly sponsored a 2.5 hour workshop on Securing Funding. Topics included how to find the right sponsor, how to present an idea, how to write a proposal, and how it will be evaluated.

This page displays active awards for ADVANCE: Increasing the Participation and Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers graphically.

As part of UMaine’s NSFsupported ADVANCE Project, funds will be available to faculty in STEM and social and behavioral science (SBS) fields and to others who directly promote ADVANCE-related efforts aimed at increasing the representation and advancement of women in the academic STEM and SBS careers. Once again we will be accepting proposals in the program areas outlined below.

The Rising Tide Center is pleased to offer a second round of grant awards with funds available to support a variety of research and professional development activities and featuring a new offering for a limited number of applicants this year – the Personalized Leadership Institute.

Rising Tide Grants program Application Form

For more information on Advance program objectives and funded activities, go to "ADVANCE at a Glance" http://www.nsf.gov/crssprgm/advance/index.jsp

A central goal of the SU-ADVANCE initiative is to prepare women faculty to excel at the interface of interdisciplinary, cross-sector (academia-industry-community) research. Toward that end, funding is available through the SU-ADVANCE initiative to facilitate the development or enhancement of collaborations between female STEM faculty and their fellow researchers in for-profit industry, in government, or not-for-profit research labs or other organizations. These grants are aimed at heightening the professi

A central aim of the SU-ADVANCE program is to promote innovative programs that promote equity and inclusion for all faculty. Department/Center Mini – Grants will be awarded to individual departments/centers based on proposals that address this central aim.

The primary goal of the faculty fellowship is to promote the career advancement of a female faculty member in a STEM discipline while serving the university-wide vision of Scholarship-in-Action. The program is also designed to respond to data from the National Science Foundation showing that, despite gains in access to education and training, fewer than 4% of STEM faculty in the nation’s four year institutions are women of color.

The WVU ADVANCE Sponsorship Program is an external mentoring program supported by the NSF ADVANCE program for women in NSF funded disciplines in CEMR and ECAS. The WVU ADVANCE project aims to catalyze institutional climate change, promote diversity and inclusivity, support women in science and engineering, and promote the success of all faculty.

These one-year grants provide funding for projects that include the integration of two or more disciplines and/or projects that involve external partners and benefit the public good. The seed grants are intended to support preliminary or exploratory projects that will contribute to future external grant applications, while providing women faculty with a vehicle by which they can establish partnerships for scholarly work.

Each year, over the next four years, the program will fund Interdisciplinary and Engaged Research Seed Grants of up to $20,000 each to be used toward collaborative projects that include the integration of two or more disciplines (interdisciplinary research), and/or projects that involve external partners and that benefit the public good (engaged research).

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 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 purpose is to network and make connections with potential candidates for upcoming faculty positions. We expect to provide funding for ten Lehigh STEM department/interdisciplinary program recruitment seminars annually. Funding includes a $250 honorar

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 purpose is to network and make connections with potential candidates for upcoming faculty positions. Up to ten Lehigh STEM department/interdisciplinary program recruitment seminars can be supported annually. Funding includes a $250 honorarium for t

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 purpose is to network and make connections with potential candidates for upcoming faculty positions. We expect to provide funding for ten Lehigh STEM department/interdisciplinary program recruitment seminars annually. Funding includes a $250 honorar

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. The funds can be used towards travel by Lehigh faculty and visiting scholars to promote interdisciplinary collaboration or for assistance to Lehigh faculty towards tuition and travel to attend a professional leadership program.

Lehigh ADVANCE is accepting applications for a new small grant mechanism to help faculty move from discussion of interdisciplinary collaboration and leadership in meetings and seminars to action that has an impact on their careers. The funds can be used towards travel by Lehigh faculty and visiting scholars to promote interdisciplinary collaboration or for assistance to Lehigh faculty towards tuition and travel to attend a professional leadership program.

Lehigh ADVANCE Grants for Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Leadership APPLICATION FORM

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.

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.

March 1 is the deadline to apply to participate in third Women's International Research Engineering Summit (WIRES): Connecting Women and Completing the Circuit of International Research Collaboration.

The main objectives of the ADVANCE Scholar Program are to provide mentors for underrepresented women STEM faculty (e.g. women of color, GLBT) and to establish a national conference specifically for women who are marginalized along multiple dimensions.

The aim of this activity is to provide an avenue for ADVANCE Target Departments to improve the work climate for women faculty and support departments in their diversity efforts.

Mini-grants for innovative projects are being awarded to individual departments based on how well the proposed projects support the goals of the ADVANCE program. This initiative is meant to support departments in their diversity efforts and to provide an avenue for innovative strategies to promote the success of women STEM faculty.