1986-2000 National Recognition   Awarded the National Science Foundation's 1999 White House President's Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. In 1991, cited as a model program by the National Research Council. In 1990, received the American Association of University Women's Progress in Equity Award.

History, Accomplishments, and Activities

		In 1999, Douglass College received a $97,244 grant from the National Science Foundation for "Teaching Inclusive Science and Engineering to Undergraduates." The grant will encourage women to enter and persist in engineering and technological fields by providing faculty development workshops, an interdisciplinary seminar for Rutgers faculty and graduate students, and engineering studies modules for courses offered through the School of Engineering, Project SUPER, and Women's Studies.
		Through a start-up grant from Johnson & Johnson, the Douglass Project developed in partnership with the W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience, the first phase of the Rutgers University Women in Neuroscience program (RU WINS). RU WINS focuses on recruiting students who are interested in neuroscience and will provide workshops, mentoring, research experiences, and a lecture series that brings leading women neuroscientists to campus.
		In 1998, the Douglass Project received a $185,000 grant from the Toyota USA Foundation to establish a Leadership Institute in Science and Technology, a new partnership with the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. that combines "hands-on" science and computer technology activities with peer mentoring by undergraduate women in science, mathematics, and engineering.
		During the summer of 1997, 122 high school students participated in the Douglass Science Institute Program Series and 21 undergraduate women held research internships with Rutgers University faculty members in science and engineering. During the summer of 1998, 113 high school students participated in the Douglass Science Institute Program Series and 31 undergraduate women held research internships with Rutgers University faculty members.
		During the 1997-98 academic year, 410 individual students participated in at least one type of activity offered by the Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science, and Engineering. A total of 1,387 students received the monthly Calendar of Events that highlights Douglass Project activities, internship opportunities, and events sponsored by other departments and organizations at Rutgers University. A total of 1258 students participated in 56 programs, services, meetings, training sessions, courses organized by Douglass Project staff or in which Douglass Project staff were involved. In 1994, the Douglass Project received a grant of $99,786 from the National Science Foundation for the 1995 Douglass Science Institute Program Series.
		In 1993, the Douglass Project established the Outreach Program to connect undergraduate women in mathematics and science with teachers and children in a K-8 elementary school in New Brunswick. Through this community service program, undergraduate women provide classroom assistance to bring the world of science and technology to this urban school. The Outreach Program also offers teacher enhancement workshops on "hands-on" science activities. It has had ongoing support from the Merck Institute for Science Education.
		In 1993, the Douglass Project received a grant of $461,630 from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to develop a mentor/research program called Project SUPER (Science for Undergraduates: A Program for Excellence in Research). This was the Sloan Foundation's largest individual grant for a women's program and the only one to a women's college from the Foundation's intervention program initiative.
		By the end of the 1998-99 academic year, over 180 undergraduate women had participated in the various components, including 142 in the faculty-mentoring component, 118 in a "hands-on" course on the research process, and 94 (through the summer of 1999) in a research internship.
		In 1993, the Douglass Project initiated, with a leadership gift of $150,000 from the AT&T Foundation, the Douglass Science Institute (DSI) Program Series for high school women, an expanded version of the DSI for high school women, that currently serves students in the 9th through 11th grade.
		In 1988, the Douglass Project offered the first of its pre-college programs, the Douglass Science Institute (DSI) for High School Women, a statewide residential summer program for young women entering the eleventh grade. In 1991, the Douglass Project expanded its pre-college programs by offering the Douglass Science Weekend Academy and Douglass Science Career Exploration Day for high school women during the academic year. Since 1988, Douglass Project has served about 2000 high school women through its pre-college programs.
		In 1989, Douglass College established the Bunting-Cobb Math, Science, and Engineering Residence Hall for women, the first of its kind in the nation. Residence hall programs provide mentoring by graduate students and an on-site computer laboratory for 100 undergraduate women each academic year.
		In 1986, Douglass College founded the Douglass Project to increase the numbers of young women studying in scientific and technological fields. Between 1988 and 1995, the number of juniors and seniors majoring in mathematics and science at Douglass College increased by 36 percent.

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For more information regarding the Douglass Project contact:
The Douglass Project for Rutgers Women in Math, Science, and Engineering
Douglass College; Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
50 Bishop Street
New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8530
Phone:  732/932-9197 ext. 10
Fax:      732/932-1533
E-mail:  dougproj@rci.rutgers.edu