Six women will receive FORWARD Leap Research Grant awards. The recipients are Victoria Gelling, assistant professor of coatings and polymeric materials; Linda Langley, assistant professor of psychology; Catherine Logue, associate professor of veterinary and microbiological sciences; Lisa Montplaisir, assistant professor of biological sciences; Wenfang Sun, associate professor of chemistry and molecular biology; and Yechun Wang, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and applied mechanics.

These awards, funded by the National Science Foundation ADVANCE grant and North Dakota EPSCoR, are designed to support the advancement of tenure‐track and tenured faculty women in science, technology, engineering and mathematics disciplines by providing research grants to seed proposals with strong potential to lead to greater funding opportunities from federal sources.

External reviewers reviewed 22 proposals submitted for funding with well-established careers in research. After receiving the external reviewers’ comments, the final decisions for awards were made by an internal award committee. The new call for proposals will be posted at www.ndsu.edu/forward.

For more information, contact Canan Bilen-Green at canan.bilen.green@ndsu.edu or 1‐7040 or Charlene Wolf-Hall at charlene.hall@ndsu.edu or 1‐6387.