These competitive research grants are awarded to interdisciplinary research teams whose work addresses issues of gender in the academy. The goals are to develop interdisciplinary research teams, engage faculty members in research on gender, and demonstrate the value of research on gender to a gendered institution.

Application Deadline for 2014-15 Academic Year: March 28, 2014 (TBD for 2014-15)

Climate and Gender Equity Research Grant Program Call for Applications for 2015-16 Academic Year
Climate and Gender Equity Research Grant Program Application Form for 2014-15 Academic Year
Climate and Gender Equity Research Grant Program Internal Reviewer Form for 2014-15 Academic Year
Climate and Gender Equity Research Grant Program External Reviewer Form for 2014-14 Academic Year
NDSU Budget Form

Slides from Kalpana Katti's information session on the climate/gender research. August 12, 2009
Slides from  information session on the climate/gender research May 13, 2010

List of awardees

2015-2016:

Exploring the Relationship between Mentoring, Leadership, and Climate at NDSU (Part 1; qualitative study)
Investigator Team: Jill Nelson, Education, and Christina Weber, Sociology

2014-2015:

Gender Bias in Student  Evaluations of Teaching: Investigator Team: Kathryn Gordon, Psychology and Chris M. Ray, Education Doctoral Programs

2013-2014:

Gendered Perceptions of Justice on Campus: Investigator Team: Chris M. Ray, Education Doctoral Programs; Chris Whitsel, Sociology; Pam Emanuelson, Sociology; Claudette Peterson, Education Doctoral Programs; Kara Gravley-Stack, Equity & Diversity

2011-2012:

Closing the achievement gap in STEM: Assessing the impact of a values affirmation task at NDSU
Investigator Team:Jennifer Momsen, Biological Sciences, Warren Christensen, Physics, Erika Offerdahl, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Lisa Montplaisir, Biological Sciences, and Mila Kryjevskaia, Physics. View Abstract

2009-2010:

Motivation and Adaptability Factors for Females in the "Leaky Engineering Pipeline"
Investigator Team: Kathy B. Enger, School of Education and Achintya Bezbaruah, Civil Engineering.  View Abstract

Developing  Gender Equity in Mathematics Classrooms: What Does it Take to Succeed?
Investigator Team: Angela Hodge, Mathematics/School of Education and Christina Weber, Sociology.  View Abstract

2008-2009: 

Assessing Toward Equity in STEM
Investigator Team:  Nathan Wood, School of Education and Erika Offerdahl, Chemistry and Molecular Biology/STEM Education.  View Abstract

Grant Related Events

Acknowledging Support from NDSU Advance FORWARD

All scholarship resulting from funding programs must acknowledge support from the NDSU ADVANCE FORWARD program sponsored by the National Science Foundation, HRD-0811239. Awardees can use the following acknowledgment statement:

This research (in part) was supported by National Science Foundation Grant # HRD-0811239 to the NDSU Advance FORWARD program.