Award Abstract # 0209478
Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE): A Transition Program for Women in the Mathematical Sciences

NSF Org: DMS
Division Of Mathematical Sciences
Recipient: BRYN MAWR COLLEGE
Initial Amendment Date: March 4, 2002
Latest Amendment Date: August 14, 2003
Award Number: 0209478
Award Instrument: Continuing Grant
Program Manager: Lloyd E. Douglas
DMS
 Division Of Mathematical Sciences
MPS
 Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Start Date: April 1, 2002
End Date: March 31, 2006 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $115,000.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $115,000.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2002 = $27,000.00
FY 2003 = $88,000.00
History of Investigator:
  • Rhonda Hughes (Principal Investigator)
    rhughes@brynmawr.edu
  • Sylvia Bozeman (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Bryn Mawr College
101 N MERION AVE
BRYN MAWR
PA  US  19010-2899
(610)526-5496
Sponsor Congressional District: 05
Primary Place of Performance: Bryn Mawr College
101 N MERION AVE
BRYN MAWR
PA  US  19010-2899
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
05
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): K6QTMYRRT6S5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM
Primary Program Source: app-0102 
app-0103 
Program Reference Code(s): 0000, OTHR
Program Element Code(s): 126000
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.049

ABSTRACT

This award supports several aspects of the second phase of the EDGE Program, "Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education." Core funding for the first phase of the program was provided by the National Science Foundation from 1998 to 2001, with additional support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Security Agency. The goal of the program is to increase the number of women and minority students who successfully complete graduate programs in the mathematical sciences, by strengthening the ability of the targeted student population to successfully negotiate the transition from undergraduate to graduate education in mathematics, and to succeed in their respective graduate programs.

The EDGE Program has two basic components: an intensive summer program prior to graduate school enrollment, and a follow-up mentoring program. In the first phase of the program, the summer component alternated between Bryn Mawr and Spelman Colleges. The second phase of the EDGE Program will
consist of three major components:

[1] a centrally administered program with a core staff consisting of the Co-Directors Rhonda Hughes of Bryn Mawr College and Sylvia Bozeman of Spelman College, as well as an Administrative Assistant. The core staff would maintain data on all EDGE participants, manage advertising and selection of participants, select host sites for the summer program, and coordinate the follow-up mentoring program;
[2] a portable design for the EDGE Summer Program. By involving a core group of select institutions as EDGE sites, the program will be made more visible, it will reach a wider audience of students, and the number of undergraduate and graduate programs aware of the goals of the program would necessarily
expand.
[3] a biennial EDGE Symposium. This event would include an EDGE Reunion of past participants, as well as a forum to promote the advancement of women, and in particular minority women, involving a broader segment of the mathematics community. The first symposium will be hosted by Spelman College in 2003.

This award will specifically support several aspects of the proposed activities: travel funds for prospective Local Coordinators, who will participate in the expansion of the program to other sites; support of the EDGE Symposium, as well as smaller reunions for past participants who have strongly expressed the need to return to the program in the year following their participation; participant support costs for two "returning" women who have interrupted their academic careers for a variety of reasons and wish to attend a graduate program in mathematics; and consultant support for an improved and expanded web site.

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