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Solving the Equation: The Variables for Women’s Success in Engineering and Computing asks why there are still so few women in the critical fields of engineering and computing — and explains what we can do to make these fields open to and desirable for all employees. Download the report.

Read about what transpired at a SXSW interactive panel featuring Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and United States' Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith while they were focusing on diversity.

Today, Dr. Nancy Wayne delivered a presentation and workshop "Building Confidence to Overcome the Imposter Syndrome" for faculty and students who interact through the WISE organizations on campus. The presentation is available to view. Imposter Syndrome is mostly a problem of confidence, not a clinical disorder or disease. Men and women can experience it, however it appears more prevalent in women, according to research. People held in highest esteem for their accomplishements have explained their...

Lehigh continues to identify and support tools to assist with dual career hiring that can increase the diversity of the faculty. In Spring 2014, Provost Farrell approved expanding the Strategic Faculty Hiring Initiative to provide cost sharing support for Professors of Practice, Lecturers and Vistors. Having the right resources such as this policy, enhancements to the dual career services process, and the creation of the Lehigh Valley Inter-regional Networking and Connecting Consortium (LINC), may be...

Educator, mentor, author and transformational speaker Dr. Christine Grant has been inspiring indiviudals and groups towards academic excellence for over 25 years at the university level. While at Lehigh University, Dr. Grant will meet in small groups with students and faculty from RCEAS, get to know our STEM faculty women and talk about career goal planning, and facilitate a working session with Lehigh ADVANCE leadership and STEM faculty to gain insight into how diversity and...

When scholars talk about the culture of STEM or the culture of a specific STEM discipline, one important attitude to pay attention to is the importance a discipline's scholars place on the belief that being brilliant is important to succeed. A recent study appearing in Science, "Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines" by Sarah-Jane Leslie, Andrei Cimpian, Meredith Meyer, Edward Freeland found that across graduate students, postpdoctoral fellows and faculty across nine...

This past Sunday, the New York Times featured an article summarizing research examining what factors make some teams smarter than others. Anite Woolley, Thomas W. Malone and Christopher Chabris reference their studies about this question. Their latest original research, conducted in collaboration with David Engel and Lisa X. Jing was published in PLOS One last month. According to the authors: "The smartest teams were distinguished by three characteristics. First, their members contributed more equally to...

Lehigh University seeks candidates, both internal and external, for the Dean of the P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science. A full position description is available online. Inquiries, nominations and applications are invited. For nominations, please provide a potential candidate's name and initial contact information, if possible, to lehigh-engdean@kornferry.com and Korn Ferry will follow up with the nominee. To apply for the position, candidates wishing to be considered should provide a cover letter describing...

At a November 13, 2014 summit held in the Wood Dining Hall of Lehigh’s Iacocca Hall, executives from Lehigh and 18 other regional companies came together for the first meeting of LINC, Lehigh Valley Inter-Regional Networking & Connecting consortium. LINC is a collaborative effort of regional corporate employers like Lehigh University, Air Products, PPL Electric Utilities, BBraun with those in higher education and other sectors who desire an educated and diverse workforce. The challenges in...

Computer Science and Engineering Profesor Mooi Choo Chuah, was evelated to IEEE Fellow for 2015 for her contributions to wireless network system and protocol design. IEEE is the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Eningeers. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. IEEE is "The world's largest professional association for the advancement of technology"...