{"id":8928,"date":"2014-12-04T09:56:32","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T16:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/?p=8928"},"modified":"2014-12-04T09:56:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T16:56:32","slug":"barnes-part-of-1-7-million-stem-related-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/2014\/12\/barnes-part-of-1-7-million-stem-related-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnes Part of $1.7 Million STEM-related Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rebecca Barnes<\/p><\/div>\n

Assistant Professor Rebecca Barnes, who began teaching at Colorado College this fall in the Environmental Program, is one of six principal investigators on a $1.7 million grant titled \u201cCollaborative Research: Improving the Recruitment and Persistence of Women in the Geosciences: Exploring Deliberate Mentoring Approaches Aimed at Undergraduate Students.\u201d<\/p>\n

The initiative is a collaborative, multi-school project that addresses two issues in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education (STEM): under-representation of women in the earth sciences and shortcomings of existing studies addressing effective strategies for mentoring. In the United States, men outnumber women in many science
\nand engineering fields by nearly three to one; in fields such as physics or the geosciences, the gender gap can be even wider.The grant seeks to close the gap in the geosciences, which encompass mining and geology, atmospheric and environmental sciences, issues related to natural resource management, natural disaster forecasting, and oceanography. The goal is to increase the pipeline of female students entering the geosciences.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany of us had few female professors or even fellow female classmates as we went through school. We are hoping that this program creates a mentoring network that helps to offset some of these feelings of isolation,\u201d said Barnes, who will help develop a pilot program on Colorado\u2019s Front Range and in the Carolinas. \u201cOur hope is that the network will increase the students\u2019 success and advancement in their chosen field.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assistant Professor Rebecca Barnes, who began teaching at Colorado College this fall in the Environmental Program, is one of six principal investigators on a $1.7 million grant titled \u201cCollaborative Research: Improving the Recruitment and Persistence of Women in the Geosciences: Exploring Deliberate Mentoring Approaches Aimed at Undergraduate Students.\u201d The initiative is a collaborative, multi-school project…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-december-2014","tag-news-from-campus"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9049,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions\/9049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/bulletin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}