This Communicating Research to Public Audiences (NSF 03-509) project is based on the PI's current NSF award: SBE-0545361- ADVANCE: Determining national science faculty demographics in order to empower women and guide solutions. This project will help address the need for underrepresented female faculty as role models and mentors in science and engineering. Although the number of female under-represented minority students (URM) in college has been increasing, there are astonishingly low numbers of female URM faculty in each science discipline. This project would produce a series of female URM faculty biographical videos to substitute for the lack of personal contact young women have with these role models. The videos would be widely disseminated through schools, colleges, and minority serving organizations to reach young women.

Project Start
Project End
Budget Start
2009-06-01
Budget End
2011-05-31
Support Year
Fiscal Year
2008
Total Cost
$75,000
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Oklahoma
Department
Type
DUNS #
City
Norman
State
OK
Country
United States
Zip Code
73019