{"id":70325,"date":"2004-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-advancing-women-scientists-and-engineers\/"},"modified":"2004-08-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-08-19T00:00:00","slug":"uri-advancing-women-scientists-and-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/08\/uri-advancing-women-scientists-and-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 advancing women scientists and engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013August 19, 2004\u2014It\u2019s fair to say that women are underrepresented in science around the world. For example, Yana Reshetnyak was the only woman in a theoretical physics class when she attended St. Petersburg State University, Russia.<\/p>\n


\nToday, Reshetnyak is among a growing number of women scientists and engineers being recruited to the 溏心vlog免费B站. This fall, the biophysicist from Yale University will join Yan Sun in the Computer and Electrical Engineering Department and Mayrai Gindy in the Civil Engineering Department as ADVANCE Faculty Fellows. <\/p>\n


\nTwo other women scientists, a plant scientist and a molecular biologist, are currently being recruited by the College of Environment and Life Sciences. In addition, a national search is underway for a female oceanographer.<\/p>\n


\n\tIn the U.S. women represent merely 22 percent of the science and engineering workforce and less than 20 percent of science and engineering faculty in four-year institutions. In response, the National Science Foundation developed the ADVANCE program to advance the careers of women faculty in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines in the nation\u2019s universities. Janett Trubatch, vice provost for graduate studies, research, and outreach is the principal investigator of a five year, $3.5-million NSF ADVANCE grant that was awarded to 溏心vlog免费B站 last October. <\/p>\n


\n\t“Science and technology are the cornerstones of our society. Women bring different viewpoints, perspectives, skills, and values to the scientific table which help broaden and integrate scientific practices with society\u2019s needs,” she said.<\/p>\n


\n\t“Beyond equity for women in the workplace, women faculty are critically needed as role models for our students and making the workplace a family friendly environment is critical to societal well being,” said the vice provost, noting that 55 percent of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s student body are women.<\/p>\n


\nADVANCE Faculty Fellows are just one part of 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s ADVANCE program designed to increase the number of women faculty and promote careers of all women faculty. <\/p>\n


\nThe Fellows will have limited teaching assignments so that they can develop strong research programs within three years. Following their fellowship and the regular faculty review process, they will transition into tenure-track faculty positions that will be opening in their respective departments. <\/p>\n


\nAnother prominent woman scientist, Ellen Flannery Schroeder, will join 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Department of Psychology this fall, thanks to a supplement supplied by the ADVANCE grant.<\/p>\n


\nIn addition to its strong recruitment program, 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s ADVANCE program provides faculty development opportunities. For example, eight faculty members received competitive Incentive Fund Awards, totaling $40,000, last winter. Biologist Allison Roberts received one of the awards. Her research on plant cells may one day lead to the production of super-strong textiles or wood products used in construction. Another award recipient is mathematician Nancy Eaton whose research on combinatorial graph theory could be applied to a myriad of uses, including scheduling problems faced by airlines and building managers. Industrial engineer Valerie Maier-Speredelozzi received funds to study manufacturing systems with the goal of improving the efficiency, productivity, quality, and flexibility of factories. <\/p>\n


\nOther activities supported by the ADVANCE grant include: <\/p>\n


\n\u2022 Faculty development opportunities, such as topical monthly luncheon series, mentorship training for senior faculty, who would in turn, mentor junior faculty. <\/p>\n


\n\u2022 Guided workshops with academic departments facilitated by an outside organizational consultant. The workshops are designed to help departments become a welcoming place for everyone and a place where everyone can be productive. So far, five departments have been engaged in such talks. More are planned. <\/p>\n


\n\u2022 The development of an extensive \u201cAcademic Work Environment Survey,\u201d which was distributed to 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s entire 700-plus faculty members. Survey results are being tabulated and analyzed and will be presented in November. <\/p>\n


\n\u2022 Review and revision of University policies that affect employees, including the family leave policy and job placement for trailing spouses.<\/p>\n


\nReshetenyak\u2019s husband, Oleg Andreev, is a trailing spouse who often co-author papers with his wife. Their research is focused on a peptide that shows great promise to deliver anti-cancer drugs. For now, Andreev is working on an adjunct basis in 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Physics Department.<\/p>\n


\nThe ADVANCE program director is Barbara Silver who wrote the grant application with Trubatch and seven science and engineering faculty. <\/p>\n


\n \u201cOur ADVANCE grant, along with the encouragement and financial support of Provost Swan, is helping us to create permanent change,\u201d Trubatch said. \u201cI want to stress, however, that the intention of this program is to benefit all faculty and the institution as a whole\u2014not just women in science and engineering. By improving policies, providing workshops and speakers that are available to all, improving department climate, and bringing in more diverse perspectives, we all win.” <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013August 19, 2004\u2014It\u2019s fair to say that women are underrepresented in science around the world. For example, Yana Reshetnyak was the only woman in a theoretical physics class when she attended St. Petersburg State University, Russia. Today, Reshetnyak is among a growing number of women scientists and engineers being recruited to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}