1. The grant will support additional activities for an ongoing program at Marymount Manhattan College (New York, NY) which conducts a four-week project each summer, with follow-up activities during the fall and winter of the next academic year, for 30 ninth-grade girls, more than half of whom are under-represented minorities. The program stimulates the girls' interest in mathematics by demonstrating its importance to the solution of global problems, its relationship to other sciences and disciplines, its connection to learning experiences in and out of the classroom, and its relevance to growing career opportunities. Activities include extensive mathematical problem-solving classes. Dr. Margaret M. Wiener is the program director.

2. A pilot program will be developed at Mercy College (Dobbs Ferry, NY) to recruit and retain eight to ten academically qualified women majoring or minoring in mathematics by (1) increasing their awareness of rewarding careers that involve a substantial amount of mathematics; and (2) providing activities and experiences that will better prepare them for such careers. Activities will include Internet training sessions, researching of career options, problem-solving sessions, and meeting with female career mentors. Dr. Marcella Alkalay and Dr. Nancy Harrison direct the project.

3. Twenty-five sets of two or three female students drawn from nine middle schools will be linked with "math mentors," who will be recruited and trained by this program at North Carolina Central University (Durham, NC). Students will meet with their mentors at least once a month and will learn about their mentor's job, career and lifestyle. The program will also include a career day, a visit to the mentor's workplace, a mentor-guided group project, field trips and other special events. Dr. Laura Smith is the project director.

4. The grant will be used to add another tier to a successful program at California State University - Stanislaus that encourages women to study mathematics. The new program will include a Saturday Academy for pre-college girls with ongoing tutoring sessions in mathematics at the campus; coaching sessions for a variety of mathematics competitions sponsored by the Stanislaus Mathematics Council and for college placement exams; and pre-college counseling sessions. Dr. Viji Sundar is the project director.

5. A career day for 50 high school girls, recruited from communities throughout northeastern Minnesota and northwestern Wisconsin, will be held at the College of St. Scholastica (Duluth, MN). The girls will attend four separate presentations, each given by a team consisting of a female role model who uses mathematics in her work and a mathematics teacher. In addition to hearing what the role model does and what her career path was, the girls will engage in a hands-on cooperative activity illustrative of the kind of mathematics used in that field. There will also be informal interactions between the girls and the professionals, with opportunities for discussion and questioning. Ann Sigford and Dorothy Amway are the project directors.

6. A program at Montgomery College (Rockville, MD) will have two activities aimed at encouraging middle school women to continue their studies in mathematics with challenging courses. (1) A career day for 60 middle school girls and 20 middle school teachers featuring student workshops in applications of mathematics, separate teacher workshops, a student mathematics competition, and a female keynote speaker who works in a mathematically oriented field. (2) A conference for 100 middle and high school counselors to help them provide more encouragement for their female students to study advanced mathematics. Counselors will participate in a mathematics problem-solving activity and be given information on math anxiety and math avoidance. Dr. Judy Ackerman is the project director.