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.

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.

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.

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

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...

The CU-ADVANCE Professional Development Grants are offered under the auspices of the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program. The NSF goal of the ADVANCE program is to increase the recruitment, retention, and promotion into leadership positions of women in engineering and the sciences, and to institutionalize best practices, policies and programs across colleges as they pertain to women faculty.

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

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).

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.

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.

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.”

“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

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 ...

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)

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 CU-ADVANCE Faculty Development Grants are offered under the auspices of the National Science Foundation ADVANCE program. The NSF ADVANCE program goal is to increase the recruitment, retention, and promotion into leadership positions of women in engineering and the sciences, and to institutionalize best practices, policies and programs across colleges as they pertain to women faculty.

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

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 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 CU-ADVANCE Center awards Faculty Development Grants to departments wishing to recruit promising women scientists and engineers by funding the following

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.

This document is form to apply for the Professional Development Grant

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...

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.

“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.

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.

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.

Prof Dev Grants Awardees for 2011

This award program will provide professional development grants to promote the advancement of women faculty in STEM and SBS units at UMaine.

The Rising Tide Center would like to provide a limited number of candidates the opportunity to pursue extensive leadership training and administrative career development through participation in of a series of training events and activities. Applicants are invited to design a personalized plan that will expand their skills in communication, negotiation and team building, budgeting and finance, strategic planning, and other leadership arenas.

Rising Tide Professional Development Grants - Progress Report

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.