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ScienceWoman is an assistant professor in -ology. She blogs about the intersection of science and real life - primarily based on her first-hand experiences. Her older posts can be found here.
Alice Pawley is an assistant professor of engineering education at Purdue University. She blogs at the intersection of women's studies and engineering, a pretty empty space but with potential to grow. She wants to be a feminist-but-tenured professor when she grows up.
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Category: academic adventures • granting games • women in science
Posted on: September 5, 2008 4:14 PM, by Alice
Just got word that our NSF-ADVANCE grant that we'd been waiting on was finally funded. W00T!!! Start date of October 1. It's not listed on the NSF website yet, but I'll post the link when it is.
It's $3.9M. The president of the university is the PI, and I'm one of 3 co-PIs. It will fund my research assistants and my major research for 5 years. Not bad for a newbie assistant professor.
I think I'm going to take the evening off.
Updated 9/6/08: the NSF award information and abstract is here.
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Congratulations. That is really great! If you need stories from old professors in the trenches, just let me know.
Posted by: pam ronald | September 5, 2008 5:06 PM
WOOHOO! Congrats!
Posted by: Becca | September 5, 2008 5:06 PM
yay! congratulations!
Posted by: hypoglycemiagirl | September 5, 2008 5:30 PM
Yippie!! Congratulations! Can't wait to hear how you spend the $$$. :)
Posted by: Jane | September 5, 2008 5:35 PM
Wow! That is super-awesome. Huge congratulations and hugs.
Posted by: ScienceWoman | September 5, 2008 5:48 PM
Wow - congratulations! Good to hear about success now and again - we tend to focus on our failures instead. Enjoy your evening off. :)
Posted by: squawky | September 5, 2008 7:20 PM
Wow! I did not know how big your grant would be. . . I think it is great. . . can't wait to read of your research. . . hopefully I will understand the lingo.
Ciao
Posted by: Sicilian | September 5, 2008 7:39 PM
Congrats! I bet it feels great!
Posted by: sciencegirl | September 5, 2008 7:52 PM
Congrats!!
Posted by: Allison | September 5, 2008 8:04 PM
Wow! Congratulations!
Posted by: Kim | September 5, 2008 9:08 PM
Yay!! Congratulations!
Posted by: slightlyfleury | September 5, 2008 10:10 PM
Very, supremely, marvellously, excellently, cool...
Posted by: John S. Wilkins | September 6, 2008 2:03 AM
Congratulations!!! Excellent, especially these days!
Posted by: anonymous | September 6, 2008 9:05 AM
Congratulations! Yay!
Posted by: Amanda | September 6, 2008 9:26 AM
Wow, great news! Congrats.
Posted by: LindaCO | September 6, 2008 10:06 AM
There should be an ADVANCE program in every state!
CONGRATS!
Posted by: Are | September 6, 2008 12:25 PM
Fabulous! I missed this yesterday but I hope you have a really fine hangover today. What a great vote of confidence that the univ pres wanted you to be one of the co-PIs.
Five years is absolutely awesome! Congratulations, you should be very, very proud and your lab folks should feel very, very fortunate.
Posted by: Abel Pharmboy | September 6, 2008 3:37 PM
Thanks, y'all! I'm still in the happy phase, and not yet in the overwhelmed phase. I'm hoping to stay in the former for as long as possible. ;-)
Posted by: Alice | September 6, 2008 4:10 PM
That kicks total fucking ass!!!
Posted by: PhysioProf | September 6, 2008 10:30 PM
Niiiiiice! yay! That is so great! Keep that happy going as long as you can! And remember you don't have to do it all yourself! Congratulations!
Posted by: Zuska | September 7, 2008 4:11 PM
Alice
This is so great for you (and for Purdue to have you doing this, I might point out)I am looking forward to hearing about all the cool and interesting things that you all will be doing
Pat
Posted by: Pat | September 7, 2008 5:46 PM
Alice that's amazing! Big huge congrats to you and the other PIs :)
Posted by: jenn | September 8, 2008 3:59 AM
Great job, Alice! I'll look forward to following the progress of your work and seeing the changes come into being. It's slow, but great work when you can really make it all happen.
Posted by: Marie | September 8, 2008 11:23 AM
Congrats! That is some seriously big money!
Posted by: Jarrett | September 8, 2008 1:24 PM
Good for you! Enjoy your success!
Posted by: ecogeofemme | September 8, 2008 9:47 PM
Congratulations, Alice! -julia (MJIS3009)
Posted by: Julia | September 11, 2008 5:50 PM