The confirmation vote occurred just before the Senate began its recess. Lane was recently Director of NSF and previously Provost at Rice University. ONR is supporting a new initiative to increase the number of women participants in the ONR Postdoctoral Fellowship program. Open to recent PhD recipients, the ONR program offers the opportunity to work with senior scientists and engineers at Navy labs. Now ONR is offering additional funding for women postdocs in the hope of increasing the percentage of women hired in laboratories.
Awards are for one year and are renewable.
Application deadlines for the program are quarterly, and the next deadline date is October 1. Earlier this year, ASEE was pleased to become the administrator for the Tau Alpha Pi National honor society for engineering technology. ASEE is currently in the process of identifying all chapters of the society and developing a database to better serve the Tau Alpha Pi community. To date, ASEE has identified more than 70 chapters across the nation. We believe, however, that there may be chapters we haven't identified, and thus, we ask for your help.