The South Dakota School of Mines and Technology has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE IT-Start Grant. According to the NSF, these awards support research to understand the status of women faculty in academic science and engineering at institutions seeking institutional transformation. Dr. Sid Goss, professor, social sciences, will serve as principal investigator on the project, with Dr. Jennifer Karlin, assistant professor, industrial engineering, and Dr. Andrea Surovek, associate professor, civil and environmental engineering, serving as co-principal investigators.
The primary goal of the School of Mines award is to determine the social, environmental and attitudinal factors affecting the recruitment, retention and advancement of women faculty in engineering and science at the School of Mines and other institutions of higher learning in South Dakota. From this data, they plan to develop strategies to increase the number of women recruited and retained at South Dakota institutions in science and engineering fields. The overarching goal is to parlay this funding into an NSF ADVANCE Institutional Transformation grant that will allow the implementation of the developed strategies.
