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More Articles Reviewing the Current Statistics of Women in Science:
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Staying Competitive: Patching America's Leaky Pipeline in the Sciences
--Marc Goulden, Karie Frasch, and Mary Ann Mason, 2009 -
U.S. Stem Work Force: Study Finds Science Pipeline Strong, But Losing
Top Students
--Yudhijit Bhattacharjee, 2009 -
More PhDs for women: Proportion of US women earning science and
engineering doctorates rises.
--Nature, "In Brief", 2009 - Mothers in
Science: 64 Ways to Have it All
Profiles of 64 women who are both mothers and scientists, published by the UK's Royal Society, 2009 -
The underrepresentation of women in science: Differential commitment or
the queen bee syndrome?
--Naomi Ellemers et al., 2005 -
Marriage and Baby Blues: Redefining Gender Equity in the Academy
--Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden 2004 -
Academic Careers and Gender Equity: Lessons Learned from MIT
--Lotte Bailyn 2003 -
Do babies matter: the effect of family formation on the life long
careers of academic men and women
--Mary Ann Mason and Marc Goulden 2002 -
A chair of one's own
--Christine Wenneras and Agnes Wold 2000 -
Despite Increases, Women and Minorities Still Underrepresented in
Undergraduate and Graduate S&E Education
--Kristen Olson 1999 -
Nepotism and sexism in peer review
--Christine Wenneras and Agnes Wold 1997
Funding Sources
The following list was compiled primarily from the list on the IB website which is a great resource because it has links to most of the funding opportunities, due dates, and descriptions of each grant.
- GRANTS:
- IB Grad student travel funds (http://ib.berkeley.edu/student/grad/fees)
- GRAC (http://ib.berkeley.edu/student/grad/fees/)
- Hansen Fund: IB travel fund, different from GRAC (http://ib.berkeley.edu/student/grad/fees/)
- SICB awards (http://www.sicb.org/students/awards.php3)
- Boren NSEP (http://www.iie.org/programs/nsep/graduate/)
- Pacific Rim (http://www.ucop.edu/research/pacrim/pr-fact.html)
- Berkeley Sigma Xi Grants-in-aid-of-research http://www.sigmaxi.org/chapters/web/index.php?chapter_id=141&page_id=330
- National Geographic young explorers: age limit http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/grants-programs/young-explorers.html
- Animal Behavior Society (http://www.animalbehavior.org/ABS/Grants/)
- AMNH (http://research.amnh.org/grants/grantsprog.html)
- AAUS (http://www.aaus.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=40526&orgId=aaus)
- PADI foundation (http://www.padifoundation.org/)
- Women Diver’s Hall of Fame Hillary Vidress Scholoarship (http://www.wdhof.org/scholarships/scholarships.shtml)
- Annetta Carter Memorial Fund: botany (http://www.calbotsoc.org/grants/carter-en.html)
- UCanon National Parks (http://www.nature.nps.gov/canonscholarships/)
- BICCCA (climate change in CA) (http://www.prbo.org/climatechange/BICCCA_RFP.pdf)
- California Native Plant Society (local and statewide chapters) (http://www.cnps.org/)
- NSF DIGG (http://nsf.gov/funding/)
- Kearney Foundation of Soil Science (need a PI) (http://kearney.ucdavis.edu/)
- Lewis and Clark fund (http://www.amphilsoc.org/grants/lewisandclark.htm)
- Heckard Fund (CA botany) (contact Bruice Baldwin at the Jepson Herbarium, information usually available in January)
- Save the Redwoods League (http://www.savetheredwoods.org/)
- UC-MEXUS (http://ucmexus.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/ucmexus.cgi)
- DOE (http://www.energy.gov/sciencetech/grants.htm)
- DOD (http://ehs.uky.edu/ohs/dod.html)
- Environmental
Protection Agency - STAR Fellowships
http://www.epa.gov/ncer/fellow/ - FELLOWSHIPS:
- Nancy Foster NOAA fellowship (http://fosterscholars.noaa.gov/)
- STRI Short-Term fellowship http://www.stri.org/english/education_fellowships/fellowships/stri_programs.php
- Lizard Island Research Station fellowship (Australia) (http://www.lizardisland.net.au/research/doctoral_fellowships.htm)
- Dolores Zohrab (http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/liebmann/)
- NSF- predoc (http://nsf.gov/funding)
- NASA
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/postsecondary/
grants/Space_Grant.html - GK12 (http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5472)
- Switzer Environmental Fellowship (http://www.switzernetwork.org/)
