ADVANCE Leadership/PI & Implementation Team
The ADVANCE Leadership/PI Team includes the project PI and the four Co-PIs. The ADVANCE Implementation Team includes the Project Director, the Co-Leaders of the Action Components, and other key leaders involved in the operations of the grant.
Kristin Sobolik, Ph.D.
Chancellor
ADVANCE PI
Alice Hall, Ph.D.
Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs
ADVANCE Project Director and Co-PI
Tanisha Stevens, Ph.D.
Vice Chancellor for Institutional Effectiveness & Compliance
ADVANCE Co-PI
Cynthia Dupureur, Ph.D.
Professor of Chemistry
ADVANCE Co-PI
Matthew Taylor, Ph.D.
Associate Professor Psychological Sciences/Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs
ADVANCE Co-PI
In Memoriam of our cherished colleague and friend.
Bettina Casad, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychological Sciences
ADVANCE Co-Lead for Education & Empowerment, and Co-PI
External Advisory Board
The UMSL ADVANCE External Advisory Board is comprised of nationally known scholars and experts in ADVANCE-related initiatives and outcomes, many of whom have been involved in other NSF ADVANCE programs and/or have vast experience in faculty affairs/success.
Dean of the College of Engineering & Computer Science, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; and PI of UTRGV ADVANCE, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
E. Desmond Lee Professor of Racial & Ethnic Diversity and Associate Dean for Equity, Diversity & Inclusion, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis
Evaluation Team
The UMSL ADVANCE evaluation team includes an internal evaluator and an external evaluator.
Evaluation and Applied Research Lead at the UMSL Community Innovation & Action Center
Internal Evaluator
