News
Thu, 09/21/2017
BRAINS Program publishes in Neuron on transforming career development
The BRAINS Program published a Neuroview Piece in Neuron about transforming career development (May 2017)
Thu, 09/21/2017
BRAINS Team Presents at 2017 Understanding Interventions conference
The BRAINS team gave a presentation, titled “Strengthening Access to Community Cultural Wealth through a Professional Development Program Counterspace,” at the 2017 Understanding Interventions conference in San Antonio, TX. (March 2017)
Thu, 09/21/2017
BRAINS Program presents poster at 2016 SfN
The BRAINS Program’s presented a poster, titled "BRAINS: Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience," at the 2016 Society for Neuroscience session on Graduate and Professional Teaching. (Nov. 2016)
Thu, 09/21/2017
BRAINS team publishes in CBE Life Sciences Education
The BRAINS team published an article in the September 2016 issue of CBE Life Sciences Education about the impact of BRAINS. (Sept 2016)
Tue, 06/13/2017
For Women in Science, the Challenges are Personal
UW STEM professors Emily Levesque and Jessica Lundquist share their experiences as women scientists, and Dr. Joyce Yen with ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change and Psychology Professor Dr. Sapna Cheryan weigh in on gender stereotyping and discrepancies in STEM fields.
Wed, 03/29/2017
UW Professor, Eve Riskin, is featured speaker at Starbucks’ STEM seminar
Eve Riskin, University of Washington professor and associate dean of Diversity and Access in Electrical Engineering, was a featured speaker at last month’s “Advancing Women in STEM” seminar at Starbucks.
Tue, 03/28/2017
ADVANCE Celebrates 15 years of advancing STEM faculty diversity
Press release for UW ADVANCE's 15-year celebration highlighting some of ADVANCE's achievements since its inception.
Mon, 01/23/2017
LATTICE Press Release
A press release about LATTICE was released on January 12, 2017. See LATTICE connects women engineering in early academic careers with peers and support article.
Wed, 09/07/2016
ADVANCE Director Joyce Yen and her colleagues from the BRAINS program has a paper published in CBE-LSE!
ADVANCE Director Joyce Yen and her colleagues from the BRAINS program has a paper published in September 2016 issue of CBE LSE. The paper is titled “Learning to Thrive: Building Diverse Scientists’ Access to Community and Resources through the BRAINS Program.”
BRAINS: Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience is a national program designed to diversify neuroscience by increasing retention of early-career neuroscientists from underrepresented groups. This paper highlights particular programmatic innovations and discusses recommendations to broaden participation in the life sciences.
Thu, 05/12/2016
ON-Ramp to Greater STEM Diversity
The latest issue of Science features an article about the On-Ramps, describing the process and findings of the program.
Thu, 02/18/2016
ADVANCE's LATTICE Program Receives NSF Funding
Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: An Intentional Community in Engineering (LATTICE) is a four-and-a-half-year NSF ADVANCE project that will create two professional development programs for early career women. The first program will be designed for women in electrical and computer engineering; the second will be for underrepresented women in engineering.
Thu, 02/18/2016
"On-Ramping" Paves the Way for Women Scientists, Engineers to Return to Academia
The National Science Foundation features an article about the On-Ramps program in their "News from the Field."
Fri, 02/05/2016
On-Ramping: Following women scientists and engineers through their transition from nonacademic to faculty careers
ADVANCE has published a journal paper about research conducted with On-Ramps into Academia participants who are now in faculty careers. It was published in the Journal of Technology Transfer in December 2015.
Thu, 02/04/2016
"On-Ramping" Paves the Way for Women Scientists, Engineers to Return to Academia
UW Today features an article discussing the On-Ramps program and its unique approach and impact in increasing and diversifying women faculty in STEM.
Mon, 11/09/2015
UW LEADs Nation in Female Engineering Faculty
The College of Engineering's quarterly newsletter, Trend, features LEAD-it-Yourself! in an article discussing UW's national lead in women engineering faculty.
Fri, 11/06/2015
ADVANCE Awarded NSF PLAN-D Grant, Women Achieving Tenure-Track Success: Strategies to Enable Community-based Retention
Program/Research Manager Dr. Joyce Yen (PI) and Dr. Eve Riskin (co-PI) have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) award entitled Women Achieving Tenure-Track Success: Strategies to Enable Community-based Retention. Building on the successful WEBS and BRAINS professional development programs, this project will create a community-centric mentoring, networking, and career development program that targets early career women in electrical engineering and underrepresented women in engineering and computer science. This project is in collaboration with North Carolina State University and California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. Co-PIs include Dr. M. Claire Horner-Devine, Dr. Julie Ivy, and Dr. Coleen Carrigan.
Tue, 09/29/2015
Dr. Riskin and Dr. Yen interviewed by UW 360 on "Closing the Gap"
UW 360 interviews Eve Riskin, UW ADVANCE Director, and Joyce Yen, UW ADVANCE Research Manager, about their work promoting gender diversity in engineering. The interview focuses on the LEAD program and the upcoming LEAD-it-Yourself! program.
Fri, 06/19/2015
Want to see female leadership in STEM? Look no further than UW's School of Engineering
The Puget Sound Business Journal highlighted the excellent percentage of female tenure-track faculty within the UW's College of Engineering and announced the October 26th LEAD-it-Yourself Train-the-Trainer Workshop, a training that will equip college and university leaders to further STEM faculty diversity and inclusion.
Fri, 06/19/2015
UW LEADs nation in female engineering faculty
UW Today featured the LEAD-it-Yourself program and the Train-the-Trainer Workshop that will be hosted at UW on October 26, 2015.
Tue, 02/10/2015
On-Ramps into Academia highlighted in Oceanography article
UW ADVANCE's On-Ramps into Academia program was highlighted in "Advancing women in oceanography: How NSF's ADVANCE program promotes gender equity in academia". The article appeared in Women in Oceanography, a supplement to Oceanography 27(4).
Tue, 02/03/2015
ADVANCE Program/Research Manager, Dr. Joyce Yen, announced as a 2015 Women of Color Empowered honoree
Dr. Yen was among the honorees of this year's Making a Difference: Honoring Women in Male Dominated Careers, organized by Women of Color Empowered and Northwest Asian Weekly. Read the announcement, or a recap of the event.