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Focus on Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Koonce, Ohio University; Valerie Conley, Ohio University; Cindy Anderson, Ohio University

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AC 2010-1198: CAREER SUCCESS FOR FEMALE STEM FACULTY AT PUBLICTWO-YEAR INSTITUTIONSDavid Koonce, Ohio UniversityValerie Conley, Ohio UniversityCindy Anderson, Ohio University Page 15.261.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2010 Career Success for Female STEM Faculty at Public Two-Year InstitutionsAbstractVery limited research exists on the career advancement of STEM female faculty members atpublic two-year institutions. Within a four-year institutional setting, several employmentoutcomes, including representation in faculty and leadership positions, tenure status, academicrank, salaries, disciplinary affiliation, research

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Focus on Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Keisha Walters, Mississippi State University; Soumya Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Jacqueline Hall, Mississippi State University; Kaela Leonard, Michigan Technological University; Amy Parker, Mississippi State University; Heather Thomas, Mississippi State University

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AC 2010-467: INSTRUCTOR AND STUDENT PERSPECTIVES ON A GRADUATEPROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSE: CAREER ISSUES FOR WOMEN INENGINEERINGKeisha Walters, Mississippi State University Dr. Keisha B. Walters is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Mississippi State University. She received her B.S. degree in Biological Sciences from Clemson University in 1996 and her M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Clemson University in 2001 and 2005. Dr. Walters’ research involves the development and surface modification of stimuli- responsive and bio-inspired polymeric materials. She has been a member of ASEE since 2002.Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University Dr. Adrienne Minerick

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Retaining Women Engineering Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachelle Reisberg, Northeastern University; Margaret Bailey, Rochester Institute of Technology; Carol Burger, Virginia Tech; Jerry Hamann, University of Wyoming; Joe Raelin, Northeastern University; David Whitman, University of Wyoming

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Faculty Associate to the Provost for Female Faculty and serves as the co-chair on the President’s Commission on Women. She began her academic career as an Assistant Professor at the U. S. Military Academy at West Point, being the first woman civilian faculty member in her department. Margaret maintains a research program in the area of advanced thermodynamic analyses and health monitoring of energy intensive systems.Carol Burger, Virginia Tech Carol Burger is the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering. She served as Senior Program Director, Program for Women and Girls, HRD Division at NSF in 1996. She teaches Introduction to Women’s

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Survival Tips from the Trenches

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Lantz, Trine University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Donna Reese, Mississippi State University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University

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Women in Engineering

for nine years, but returned two years ago. Between them, these four women have five children, 148 referred journal publications, three book chapters, six books (novels) and two novellas, and 76 research grants and contracts, totaling $9.4 million.Susan’s Top Ten Tips for Academic Survival1. Live close to where you work. The more time you spend commuting, the less time you spend working or with your family.2. Love your work. If you aren’t passionate about either teaching or research, your work will become a job, not a career.3. Balance your personal and professional lives. This can be difficult to do, and you can’t always maintain a perfect balance, but strive to maintain the balance most weeks

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ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Christine Grant, North Carolina State University; Jessica Decuir-Gunby, North Carolina State University; Barbara Smith, North Carolina State University

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Women in Engineering

WOMEN ENGINEERING FACULTY ( “Navigating Your Journey on the Academic Sea”; NSF ADVANCE Conference, Over 60 URM Women Engineering Faculty @ Caltech Photo credit: B. Paz)AbstractAs they progress in their engineering faculty careers, Underrepresented Minority Women (URM)women are very familiar with unique issues at the intersection of race and gender (DeCuir-Gunby, Long-Mitchell, & Grant, 2009; Ranson, 2005; Ronen & Ronen, 2008). This familiarityresults from their own personal experiences in the Academy and provides a broad set ofresponses ranging from leaving the professoriate to a single-minded pursuit of success no matterwhat obstacles are presented (National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of

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Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Manjusha Saraswathiamma, North Dakota State University; Kathy Enger, North Dakota State University; Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Achinthya Bazebaruah, North Dakota State University; Bruce Schumacher, North Dakota State University

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Women in Engineering

advice do these females offer to girls who want to pursue a career in engineering? 2. How adaptable are females in the engineering field? • What is the best part of being an engineer? • What challenges do females in the engineering field face? • What do the career plans and ambitions of these females indicate about their adaptability in the engineering field?Coding. Data analysis for this study followed Strauss’s and Corbin’s42 outline for groundedtheory research. The researcher analyzed data by immersing herself in the profiles of femaleengineers posted on the engineergirl.org website. Then, analysis began with open coding,continued with axial coding, and concluded with selective coding

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Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sara Atwood, University of California, Berkeley; Eli Patten, University of California at Berkeley; Lisa Pruitt, University of California, Berkeley

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Women in Engineering

presentationactivities, and the outreach teaching activity more highly than men when asked what activitieswere most useful for their career. Interestingly, women also self-reported higher confidence thanmen in 7 of 11 of our learning objectives at the beginning of the semester, and 8 of 11 at the endof the semester. Areas of higher confidence for women included working and communicatingeffectively on a team with various learning styles and engaging the community about science.Areas of higher confidence for men included critically evaluating written and analytical work ofthemselves and others, and recognizing issues and technological advances in bioengineering.Assessment of learning styles in this course revealed that women were slightly more verbal,sensing, and

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Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Eleanor M. Jaffee, Smith College; Donna Riley, Smith College

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providenew layers of nuance to our understandings of women‟s decision-making about major and career.Below we present our findings utilizing student narratives about career decision-making. Weconsider four interrelated themes that emerged from our analysis: student understandings ofgender and women in engineering; the interaction of personal interest with the encouragement ofinfluential others; sociocultural factors; and social impact. Page 15.2.6Women and Gender Obviously being a woman in the engineering field is going to be an obstacle if I choose, which I probably will, to pursue that, „cause so few women are in engineering and

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Retaining Women Engineering Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Judith Cordes, Michigan State University; Thomas Wolff, Michigan State University

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. In this capacity, he is responsible for all activities related to student services (academic administration, advising, career planning, women and diversity programs, etc.) and curricular issues. He is principal investigator on several NSF grants related to retention of engineering students. As a faculty member in civil engineering, he co-teaches a large introductory course in civil engineering. His research and consulting activities have focused on the safety and reliability of hydraulic structures, and he has participated as an expert in three different capacities regarding reviews of levee performance in Hurricane Katrina. He is a three-time recipient of his college’s Withrow Award for Teaching

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Retaining Women Engineering Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Creamer, Virginia Tech; Peggy Meszaros, Virginia Tech; Catherine Amelink, Virginia Tech

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Women in Engineering

during high school and outreach activities about career opportunitiesthat occur as early as elementary school. While research outcomes are not entirelyconsistent on this point, evidence is that the gender and racial gap in persistence onceenrolled in an engineering major has narrowed to near parity. In a recent analysis, forexample, Lord et al.1 determined that contrary to prevailing perceptions, women and menpersist in engineering majors at approximately the same rate across all ethnic groups.Less encouraging is evidence that a gender gap persists after completion of anundergraduate major in engineering, when women were significantly less likely than mento express interest in pursuing jobs in engineering2,3,4.Conceptual FrameworkThe literature

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Retaining Women Engineering Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington; Stephanie Jaros, University of Washington; Suzanne Brainard, University of Washington; Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Women in Engineering

that people’s experiences are informed by the intersection of race andgender.4,5 Very little research has been able to examine engineering student experiences at theintersection of gender and race. As a multi-site study based on data from diverse undergraduateengineering programs, and with significant numbers of African American and Hispanicrespondents, PACE is uniquely suited to address this gap in the literature and identify howgender and race jointly affect student experiences. The results of this study are of increasingimportance as more research relates certain types of student interactions to interest inengineering majors, and pursuit of an engineering career.6BackgroundA recent report from the National Action Council for Minorities in

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Women in Engineering Poster Session

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erika Murguia, Arizona State University; Erin Kube, Arizona State University; Jennifer Bekki, Arizona State University Polytechnic; Bianca Bernstein, Arizona State University

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the Content Team. Dr. Bernstein is a national leader in graduate education, having served higher education in a variety of positions. These have included: Dean of ASU’s Graduate College, Director of NSF’s Division of Graduate Education, leader of ASU’s extensive Preparing Future Faculty Program, innovator of ASU’s Preparing Future Professionals Program, President of the Western Association of Graduate Schools, and member of the Board and Executive Committee of the Council of Graduate Schools, and member of the CRPGE board of NASULGC. Her over 200 publications and presentations have focused on graduate education reform and the career advancement of women and underrepresented

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Retaining Women Engineering Students

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Susan Metz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Suzanne Brainard, University of Washington; Elizabeth Litzler, University of Washington

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Women in Engineering

implemented the following protocol.Quantitative SurveyThe PACE questionnaire included questions in the following categories: Quality of Teaching,Professors, Teaching Assistants, Labs, Resources, Student Interaction, Extracurricular Activities,Personal Experience, Perceptions of Engineering Careers, Perceptions of Engineering Major,Confidence and Demographic Information. In addition, Personal Experience included ninequestions relevant to sensitive issues such as sex and race discrimination and harassment.In recognition of the varying Institutional Review Board rules that regulate the release of studentdata, we created four survey administration options from which each institution could choose.They included 1) school hosts survey, school samples

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ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Canan Bilen-Green, North Dakota State University; Elizabeth Birmingham, North Dakota State University; Ann Burnett, North Dakota State University; Roger Green, North Dakota State University

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Women in Engineering

2001, 37 institutions across the country have received a National ScienceFoundation ADVANCE Institutional Transformational Award. The goal of the NSF ADVANCEprogram is to increase participation of women in academic science and engineering careers. TheNorth Dakota State University Advance FORWARD (Focus on Resources for Women’sAdvancement, Recruitment/Retention, and Development) project, funded by NSF in 2008, seeksto develop and implement a comprehensive research-driven strategy to increase participation ofwomen in all faculty and academic administrative positions. As NSF funding is limited to scienceand engineering, the institution provides funds for faculty not in science and engineeringdisciplines.Universities often maintain processes that

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Focus on Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Soumya Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Anurag Srivastava, Mississippi State University; Adrienne Minerick, Mississippi State University; Noel Schulz, Mississippi State University

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Women in Engineering

Adrienne R. Minerick is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan Technological University (MTU). From July 2003 through December 2009, she was on the faculty of the chemical engineering department at Mississippi State University (MSU). She received her PhD and M.S. from the University of Notre Dame and B.S. from Michigan Technological University. At MSU, Dr. Minerick taught the graduate Chemical Engineering Math, Process Controls, Introduction to Chemical Engineering Freshman Seminar, Heat Transfer, and Analytical Microdevice Technology courses. In addition, she is an NSF CAREER Awardee, has served as co-PI on an NSF REU site, PI on grants from NSF and DOE, and is the

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ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Anna M. Zajicek, University of Arkansas; Shauna A. Morimoto, University of Arkansas; Joseph Rencis, University of Arkansas; Valerie H. Hunt, University of Arkansas

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Women in Engineering

disciplines.6 Page 15.1279.2Issues affecting women’s recruitment and progress through the academic pipeline are verysimilar across all STEM disciplines. However, women engineers face the unique challenge of the   field being one of the longstanding male bastions.7,8 Historically, engineering resisted diversityefforts9, including the entrance of women into engineering education or academic careers.6 Eventoday, male students appear to actively “engage in the process of masculinizing the subject area,and therefore marginalizing women students”10,11 as well as women faculty.7 With regard tofaculty recruitment

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Focus on Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mary Anderson-Rowland, Arizona State University; Anita Grierson, AZ State University

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Award 2009, ASEE Minorities Award 2006, the SHPE Educator of the Year 2005, and the National Engineering Award in 2003, the highest honor given by AAES. In 2002 she was named the Distinguished Engineering Educator by the Society of Women Engineers. Her awards are based on her mentoring of students, especially women and underrepresented minority students, and her research in the areas of recruitment and retention. A SWE and ASEE Fellow, she is a frequent speaker on career opportunities and diversity in engineering.Anita Grierson, AZ State University ANITA E. GRIERSON is the Director of the METS Center in the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering at ASU. Ms. Grierson has over 10 years corporate

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ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suzanne Zurn-Birkhimer, Purdue University; Barbara Clark, Purdue University; Susan Geier, Purdue University; Christie Sahley, Purdue University

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Women in Engineering

systemicapproaches to increase the representation and advancement of women in academic science andengineering careers, thereby contributing to the development of a more diverse science andengineering workforce.” (NSF ADVANCE grant webpagewww.nsf.gov/crssprgm/advance/index.jsp). Purdue was awarded an Institutional TransformationADVANCE grant in October 2008. The overarching goal of ADVANCE-Purdue is to be anadvocate for institutional change. To become embedded into the fabric of the institution, policyand/or procedural changes must occur at the institutional level.At the heart of ADVANCE-Purdue is the Purdue Center for Faculty Success (PCFS) focused ondeveloping programming and implementing activities for the success of all faculty. The activitiesare

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ADVANCE Grants and Institutional Transformation

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kristen Constant, Iowa State University

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Women in Engineering

important to enhancing participation of hierarchywomen. To broaden our impact and learn fromother experts, ISU ADVANCE hosted a Nationalconference on increasing flexibility in faculty careers (in October, 2008). To broaden the reachof ISU ADVANCE within ISU, Equity Advisors from each of the three colleges spoke to non-focal department faculty in their college (usually at a departmental faculty meeting) to discussISU ADVANCE activities and efforts in other departments and colleges – focusing specificallyon how they can make use of the results of research in their own departments. A number ofelectronic resources have been developed (in Web and sometimes CD-ROM format). Topicsinclude best practices for faculty searches14, faculty

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Effective Methods for Recruiting Women to Engineering

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Donna Milgram, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS); Daniella Severs, Institute for Women in Trades, Technology and Science (IWITTS)

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Women in Engineering

(with one being an adjunct instructor when possible) and the director ofcounseling. Other possible members include the learning center director, tutoring center director,curriculum developer, articulation officer, recruitment director, outreach coordinator, publicinformation officer, an equity/women's center coordinator, a school-to-career director, a researchand planning officer, and other key stakeholders.The leadership team model ensures that the entire college will work together to make surewomen are recruited and retained in STEM programs, and that the STEM program will not beexpected to take on functions outside of its normal duties. For example, in many of the collegesthe public information officer has assisted with distributing a press

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Focus on Faculty

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2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Katie Corner, University of Colorado, Boulder; Beverly Louie, University of Colorado, Boulder; Amber Shoals, University of Colorado, Boulder; Cindy Cabrales, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Women in Engineering

Engineering Program (MEP) merged to become a new organization known as theBroadening Opportunity through Leadership and Diversity (BOLD) Center. The BOLD Centercontinues to offer scholarship support, education and career advice, as well as socialnetworking opportunities to students underrepresented in engineering. Female communitybuilding events such as department luncheons, Girl Scout technology badge volunteer days, andother K-12 outreach events are also offered through the BOLD Center. In the fall of 2009, theBOLD Center launched a new living-learning community in the university residence halls. Thisliving and learning hall is a shared space with the Engineering Honors Program and offers them