As of 2007 NSF has announced three rounds of ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Awards, the first of which was in 2001. URI was part of the second round in 2003. An additional third program announcement was made in spring of 2004. Our sister ADVANCE institutions include:
Round:
- Georgia Insitute of Technology
- Hunter College, City University of New York
- New Mexico State University
- University of California, Irvine
- University of Colorado, Boulder
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- University of Puerto Rico, Humacao
- University of Washington
- University of Wisconsin, Madison
Second Round:
- Case Western Reserve
- Columbia University
- Kansas State University
- University of Alabama, Birmingham
- University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- University of Montana
- University of Texas at El Paso
- Utah State University
- Virginia Polytechnic Insitute and State University
- University of Rhode Island
Third Round:
- Brown University
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
- Cornell University
- Iowa State University
- Marshall University
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Rice University
- University of Arizona
- University of Illinois, Chicago
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Women’s Engineering Leadership Network (collaborative project between Iowa State University, Louisiana State University, University of Central Florida, University of Connecticut, Syracuse University, and the University of Utah)