Initiative to support, empower women STEM faculty
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The grants will also provide community college faculty members, who spend most of their time teaching, with rare access to research opportunities.
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She added that it’s exciting that William & 玛丽 is partnering with two community colleges for this grant and expects the grant to benefit students.
“We are a relatively small school, and it is tough for us to get funding” she said. “In comparison to large institutions, we created a community for fostering development, collaboration, and mentorship by partnering with our community colleges and developing a critical mass. This will have long-term effects for our own faculty and should have down-stream effects for role-modeling with the students.”
William & 玛丽 is already becoming known nationally as a producer of young women scientists. The College was recently featured in a national Associated Press story “Women Making Slow, Sure Strides In Science, Math.” The story highlights Associate Professor of Chemistry Elizabeth Harbron and her work with young women scientists at the College.
In the article, Harbron extolls the importance of having women role models in the STEM disciplines.
“For some students, if they don’t see people like them represented in the faculty, it just becomes less appealing, I think,” she said in the article. “We are reaching a critical mass of women scientists, but we still have a long way to go in creating a science faculty that looks more and more like our students.”
