Purdue Seeks to Attract More Female Science Professors

Thanks to a five-year, $3.92-million grant from the National Science Foundation, Purdue University will establish a new center designed to boost the number of female faculty members in the STEM fields — science, technology, engineering, math — and agriculture, the Associated Press reports.

Currently, only 15 percent of Purdue’s faculty in the STEM fields are women. Nationally, U.S. Department of Labor statistics show that a paltry 12 percent of science and engineering positions and 20 percent of information-technology positions are held by women.

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