UMaine’s Rising Tide Center, funded by a National Science Foundation ADVANCE award, is offering grant opportunities to foster the professional development of women in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines, along with social and behavioral science (SBS) disciplines. Funds are available to faculty in STEM and SBS fields, as well as to others […]
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Bangor Daily News, February 12, 2011 Professor Virginia Valian of Hunter College addresses the crowd gathered for her lecture “Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women” on Friday in Minsky Hall at the University of Maine in Orono. Valian’s lecture is the first public event presented by the UMaine Advance Rising Tide Center, a National […]
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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 […]
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ORONO, Maine — A $3.3 million National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant will establish the Rising Tide Center at the University of Maine and support an initiative throughout the University of Maine System to increase the number of female faculty members in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM; and social-behavioral sciences. The […]
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