This year, the GEP received a second ADVANCE award from NSF, called Partnerships for Adaptation, Implementation and Dissemination (PAID). The Principal Investigators for the PAID award are: Virginia Valian, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, Hunter College and the Graduate Center; Vita Rabinowitz, Acting Provost, Hunter College; Annemarie Nicols-Grinenko, Director of Programs and Research, GEP and Hunter College; Selma Botman, Executive Vice Chancellor of CUNY; Jennifer Raab, President, Hunter College.

The PAID award will fund two major projects for faculty at Brooklyn, City, Graduate Center, Hunter, John Jay, Lehman, Queens, College of Staten Island, or York

• A Workshop Series for Junior Faculty, open to all eligible faculty (women and men) in the natural and social sciences, mathematics and statistics, or engineering
  
  
• A Grant Writing Assistance Program for women faculty in the natural and social sciences, mathematics and statistics, or engineering, planning to submit grant applications to federal funding agencies by Spring 2009