FY10 Diversity Committee Awards:
| Project Name | Principal Investigator |
Project Description | Period of Performance | Amount | Final Report |
| MESA to Mesa | Tim Scheitlin/CISL | Math, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) to Mesa Program seeks to provide transportation scholarships for field trips to NCAR for educators serving 4th - 12th grade students from under-represented populations in the greater Denver Metro area, especially targeting Colorado MESA educators. | 6/1/10 - 5/30/11 | $9,654 | Final Report |
| Careers in Science | Brigitte Baeuerle, Mike Daniels, Wen Chau Lee, Alison Rockwell/EOL | Targeted education and outreach program that exposes students from a subset of carefully chosen accredited postsecondary minority institutions to career opportunities within the areas of science and science support. | 5/1/10 - 4/20/12 (6 mo. extension granted) | $29,720 | Final Report |
| Building Long-Term University Partnerships for Atmospheric Chemistry Research | Bill Randel/NESL ACD | Enhance NCAR partnership with Howard University, a minority-serving university, through the exchange of faculty and grad students involved in atmospheric Research. Support extended visits of grad students to NCAR to work with ACD scientists on projects of mutual interest, and also support shorter visits of faculty advertisers to NCAR and NCAR staff to universities. | 6/1/10 - 5/31/12 | $49,978 | Final Report |
| Climate Change Measurements Workshop and Conference | Elisabeth Holland, Sherri Heck/ NESL ACD | Workshop/conference including NCAR staff, Kenya Meteorological Dept., and the Navajo Nation. Series of talks on the importance of measurements in relation to the study of climate change, an overview of the state of climate change, how models are used to address climate change and climate impacts. | 12/1/10 - 08/31/11 | $31,673 | Final Report |
FY10 Internal Committee Funded Proposals:
| Project Name | Principal Investigator | Project Description | Period of Performance | Amount | Final Report |
| Diversity Recruiting through Advertising | Helen Moshak, Luanna Allapowa, Nancy Wade | Fund a more aggressive advertising effort to diversity the applicant pool of the Software Engineer/Programmer job groups. | 7/1/10 - 6/30/11 | $11,004 | Final Report |
| ESL Communication Skills | Jielun Sun | Funds for employees to attend ESL classes (two speech classes and two writing classes). Attendees: non-native speakers, and possible native speakers. | 7/1/10 - 12/31/11 | $14,910 | Final Report |
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 Recruitment Advertising Results Report plus budget 3-14-12.pdf | 128.94 KB |
