进步的空间

NSF进位 (Strategic 合作伙伴hip for Alignment of Community Engagement in STEM) is a partnership among 14 colleagues from a11 academic institutions across the United States and four core professional societies in environmental engineering.

Its purpose is to advance women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority women in academic science and engineering careers. NSF进位 is a four-year, collaborative project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) 推进 Program.

The SPACES project aims to identify, 理解, and minimize the loss of women faculty through targeted activities and by leveraging the deep, interconnected leadership team and our core professional societies. The SPACES project team includes recent presidents of these societies, environmental engineering department or program leaders, 部门主管, 工程系主任, and national leaders in community-engaged research and equity initiatives.

esball国际平台客户端: If you have questions about the NSF 推进合作伙伴hip SPACES program, please email spaces@ngskmc-eis.net.

Professional Development

Our first SPACES Community-Engaged 研究 (CER) Cohort kicked off in 2023, but there will be others!

The CER Cohort was designed to support underrepresented minority (URM) junior faculty in environmental engineering and sciences (as well as related fields) whose research involves direct engagement with the public and/or impacted communities. 给n the historical challenges with merit, 任期内, and promotion for engineering faculty in these “spaces,” the CER Cohort will receive collective and individual support in navigating professional milestones while carrying out research that reflects our core values. The NSF进位 team will work toward establishing more effective institutional practices to better support URM faculty who conduct CER.

If you are interested in being a SPACES CER Cohort member and meet the qualifications stated above, please fill out this 谷歌的形式 and inform us of your interest by emailing spaces@ngskmc-eis.net.

The SPACES CER Cohort protocol was approved by the Clarkson University Institutional Review Board (Approval No. 23-31).

What Is Community-Engaged 研究?

Community-engaged researchers work together with people from a community to solve issues associated with the health and well-being of the community. These issues are often related to environmental exposures to pollutants and related health effects.

Community-engaged researchers repeatedly have the rigor of their scholarly activities questioned or discounted as service during annual review, 任期内, and promotion evaluations. This systemic undervaluation of their research contributes to the attrition of many women who enter engineering motivated to address societally important problems. The personal and societal costs of their contributions and the associated innovative, effective engineering solutions for underserved communities are enormous.

Participating Institutions and Societies

Institutions participating in 进步的空间 include: Clarkson University (lead), University of Arizona, University of California Berkeley, University of California Irvine, University of Colorado Boulder, University of Florida, University of South Florida, California State University Northridge, Michigan State University, San Jose State University, and Syracuse University.

The core participating professional societies include: the American Academy of Environmental Engineers and Scientists (AAEES), the American Association for Aerosol 研究 (AAAR), the Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP), and the Water Environment Federation (WEF).

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