ADVANCE: Advancing Women in Science and Engineering at Lehigh University

Lehigh ADVANCE: Building Community Beyond Academic Departments, a five year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE - Institutional Transformation (IT) program, is part of a national push to increase the ranks of women in academic science and engineering careers. Read more »

News

Funding opportunities by AAUW
September 20, 2016

Did you know the American Association of University Women offers funding opportunities for a wide variety of career stages and discilpines? Check it out, deadlines are August 1, 2016.

Northeastern Future Faculty Fellowships: Accepting
September 15, 2016

Northeastern University invites applications for the 2017-

Welcome MAPWISELY Cohort 1
September 1, 2016

The new ADVANCE project coordinated by Lehigh University is accepting materials from the newly tenured and promoted associate professor women in STEM at the participating MAPWISELY institutions.

Featured Resource

How to be a Male Advocate

ADVANCE and other programs aiming to shrink the gender gap in STEM cannot achieve this goal without support from men. 

Lehigh ADVANCE will provide time for men to gather and discuss gender from their perspectives and to use various resources, trainings, and strategies, to be supportive agents of change in the transformation of Lehigh University. If you are interested in being an ADVANCE Advocate for STEM Women, please contact Lehigh ADVANCE. 

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Events

INC: Past Mentees
Tuesday, October 11, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
LU-WISE: Powerful Questions
Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
MAPWISELY: Cohort 1 Workshop
Thursday, October 20, 2016 - 6:00pm to Friday, October 21, 2016 - 3:00pm

LU Women In Science & Engineering: WISE

Mentor, Network, Collaborate at Lehigh and beyond. A network of women scientists and engineers and the interlocking programs and resources to build community and strong faculty careers. The RAISE project is a campaign to increase the status of professional women through enhanced recognition of their achievements in science, technology, engineering, medicine and mathematics. Check it out! http://raiseproject.org/

Work/Life Balance

Lehigh is committed to helping faculty members balance the responsibilities of their professional and personal lives and provides these work life balance resources as information for faculty.