Contact: Joe Carr at (207) 581-3571 ORONO — A  five-year, $3.3 million National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant will fund a new University of Maine initiative to affect institutional change by improving the status of female faculty in the sciences, technology, engineering, mathematics and the social-behavioral sciences. The grant will establish the Rising Tide Center, which read more Advance Grant Establishes UMaine Center to Support Female Faculty