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FUNDED DEPARTMENT TRANSFORMATION GRANTS
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Here you will find abstract of funded Department Transformation Grants.
FALL 2003
Biology
Mechanical Engineering
Spring 2004
Mathematics
FALL 2004
Electrical Engineering
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Biology
Transformations in Biology: Uncommon Leaders
Tom Daniel (Chair, PI), Billie Swalla (co-PI), Toby Bradshaw (co-PI)
Abstract:
We will create a Biology lecture series entitled “Transformations
in Biology: Uncommon Leaders”.
In Fall of 2004, we will have a graduate seminar to examine the contributions of women and minorities as leaders in biology – people who have transformed our discipline through a variety of avenues ranging from scientific contributions, to economic, social and political domains. Those who have changed the face of biology through leadership in mentoring, involvement in our government, raising public awareness, or discovering new research avenues. Graduate students will be encouraged to think about transformations in Biology, explore who has made them happen and how they occur, looking up information on specific people and topics.
The graduate seminar will culminate in a WEB site of Uncommon Leaders , detailing their accomplishments. The WEB site will be created by one of the graduate students in the course, who will receive a winter quarter RA to build the WEBsite with material gathered in the seminar.
Finally, we will bring some of the Uncommon Leaders to UW to participate in our seminar series in spring and fall of 2005. We plan something far more systemic than invitations to great speakers and hot scientists. We are aiming at raising the awareness of faculty and graduate students by uncovering stories of effective leadership in the face of daunting in the face of cultural, societal or physical barriers.
Mechanical Engineering
Strategic Plan Development for Recruitment, Retention and Advancement of Women and Minority Faculty and Graduate Students in Mechanical Engineering
Ann Mescher (PI), Bruce Adee (Acting Chair, co-PI), Brian Fabien (co-PI)
Abstract:
The Department of Mechanical Engineering will develop, in collaboration
with outside experts, an aggressive strategic plan to increase the recruitment,
retention and advancement of women and minority faculty and graduate students.
Elements of the strategic plan will include: improving the current orientation
process for new faculty, developing an improved process of nomination
for awards, improving the mentoring process for faculty, identifying pools
of Mechanical Engineering women and minorities to recruit into faculty
positions, and examining the current process for faculty recruitment.
The strategic plan will be developed in consultation with several outside
experts who will be invited to Mechanical Engineering for a short week
or less to discuss recruitment, retention and advancement strategies,
ideas, and procedural recommendations.
The Department
of Mechanical Engineering will also develop a strategic plan that will
focus on issues of recruitment and retention for our graduate student
body. The plan will include: developing mechanisms to identify potential
women and underrepresented minority graduate students, developing funding
sources to provide competitive scholarship and financial-aid packages
to these students, conducting a climate study, and participating in the
faculty-graduate student mentoring program administered by the Center
for Workforce Development.
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Mathematics
Mathematics Lecture Series by Women: A Departmental Transformation Initiative
Rekha Thomas (PI) and Selim Tuncel (Chair, co-PI)
Abstract:
This proposal requests support from UW ADVANCE to initiate and establish
a new series of talks by prominent women mathematicians within our departmental
colloquium series. What we have in mind are visits that involve substantially
more interaction and mentoring activities than is typical. Each speaker
in the series will visit for several days and give two talks during their
visit -- the colloquium talk on Tuesday and an introductory talk for graduate
students on Monday. She will also interact with students at organized
lunches on both days, and during the colloquium dinner on Tuesday. The
Tuesday lunch will be aimed at creating an opportunity for the women graduate
students and faculty to interact with the speaker.
Mathematics has always been and continues to be a male dominated field. The proposed program will considerably increase the exposure our students and faculty get toward distinguished women mathematicians. It will contribute to the retention and success of our female graduate students and faculty. The departmental colloquium is our most prominent showcase for research; increasing the visibility of successful female researchers via that venue will also make a significant contribution to ongoing departmental culture change regarding the role and contributions of women mathematicians.
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Electrical Engineering
A Culture of Community Mentoring
Mari Ostendorf (PI), David Allstot (Chair, co-PI), John Sahr (co-PI), Sumit Roy (co-PI)
Abstract:
This proposal requests support from UW ADVANCE to develop a framework
in EE to make it possible for multiple people to benefit from the strengths
of different individuals within the department, while at the same time
providing multiple perspectives. Specifically, we propose to:
- Develop a culture of community responsibility for mentoring, both for junior faculty and graduate students;
- Implement a group mentoring program, similar to the ADVANCE leadership lunches, and web resources for mentors/mentees, to ensure that no one falls through the cracks because of a poor mentor-mentee match (particularly and issue for women);
- Establish a tradition of cross-gender mentoring to ensure that a breadth of perspectives are available to junior faculty, to increase exposure of the more senior and accomplished women in the EE department, and to reinforce the notion of symmetry of roles; and
- Determine additional needs of women (including research faculty) and ensure that these are covered in the mentoring program.
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Civil and Environmental Engineering
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Last Updated: July 07, 2005
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