The National Science Foundation has awarded a $499,858 grant to Wayne State University - one of seven awarded nationally - to establish a three-year interdisciplinary program to improve career advancement opportunities for women faculty in sciences and engineering. Escalate, which started Sept. 1, seeks to diversify the academic science and engineering workforce and builds on and applies lessons learned from a prior NSF-funded project at the University of Michigan. Principal Investigator for the project is Allen Batteau, director of the Institute for Information Technology and Culture and associate professor in the Department of Anthropology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Co-investigators are Ece Yaprak, associate professor of Engineering Technology; Karen Tonso, associate professor of Education; research associate Diane Pawlowski and Michele Grimm, associate dean of Engineering. A photo of Wayne State's Old Main building is included in the Why Detroit Works publication.