The UAB ADVANCE Senior Faculty Research Award is open to all tenured faculty who hold the rank of associate or full professor within the Schools of Engineering, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Social and Behavioral Sciences (ADVANCE Schools). The purpose of this award is to sponsor research in any discipline by women faculty and research or service focused on gender equity by all faculty within the three ADVANCE departments.
Awards may fund research directly related to issues of gender equity in the academy and society, to promote graduate and post-doctoral education for women in science and engineering, and to support research in the area of a faculty member's specialization which will broaden the participation of women in science and engineering.
2008-2009 Senior Faculty Research Award Recipients
Colin Davis, Professor, Department of History, "The Wives of Fishermen: The Politics of Rage and Despair"
Patricia Drentea, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, "Debt and Debt Anxiety Among Couples Living with Disability"
Shelia Cotten, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, "Assessing the Educational, Career, and Social Impacts of the XO Laptop Program in Birmingham, AL City Schools"
2007-2008 Senior Faculty Research Award Recipients
Virginia Sisiopiku, Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Education "Study of the Impacts from One- to Two-way Street Conversation"
Rosalyn Weller, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, "Functional Brain Imaging Studies of Decision-Making in Obese Women"
Yanni Zeng, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, "Nonlinear Stability of Viscous Shock Waves"
Mary Ellen Zvanut, Professor, Department of Physics "Development of Microwave Conductivity Measurements for Ferroelectric Thin Films"
2005-2006 Senior Faculty Research Award Recipients:
Vithal Ghanta, Professor, Department of Biology
"The Effects of Dietary Protein Variations and Selenium and Coppoer on the
Immune System of Sea Urchins"
"Female Citizenship in 19th Century Spanish America/Columbia"
"A Gender Analysis of Postdoctoral Education in Engineering and Sciences at
UAB"
"Characterization and Analysis of Thin Film Complex Oxides"
2004-2005 Senior Faculty Research Award Recipients:
Virginia Sisiopiku, Associate Professor, Department of Civil Engineering
"Design and Safety of Modern Roundabouts"
Patricia Drentea and Loretta Cormier, both Associate Professors in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences
"Institutional Climate for Women Faculty in Science and Engineering at UAB"
Pamela Murray, Associate Professor, Department of History
"Expanding Historical Knowledge of Women & Gender in Spanish America"
Caroline Conley, Professor, Department of History
"Homicide, Gender and National Identity in the Victorian United Kingdom"
Mary Ellen Zvanut, Associate Professor, Department of Physics
“Characterization and Analysis of Defects in Thin Film Complex Oxides"
Award proposals should include:
- A UAB ADVANCE cover sheet with signatures from the applicant, department chair, and dean;
- Cover letter indicating willingness to participate in the ADVANCE program and a timeline showing how this proposed activity fits in with your teaching, research, and service for the academic year;
- Curriculum vita;
- One- to two-page proposal specifying research design, methodology and outcomes; a one-page budget with budget justification; and
- A statement from the department chair of support and any matching funds.
Monies from the ADVANCE Senior Faculty Research Award can be used for release time from teaching to conduct research, summer salary, laboratory equipment or office supplies, salary for a research assistant(s), and travel to collections, laboratories, academic conferences, and other ADVANCE institutions for conferences and workshops. All funds are to be used during the award year and a final report will be required. All scholarship resulting from this award must acknowledge support from the UAB ADVANCE program sponsored by the National Science Foundation.