Taking on a position of scientific leadership (such as becoming president or vice president of a scientific society, or editor of a journal) can be essential for pushing a scientist’s career forward, but these opportunities often require significant investments of time that may slow one’s research. Because these leadership roles can be quite time intensive, some scientists find themselves turning down such leadership opportunities due to the competing needs of their own labs or academic commitments. One of the goals of Brown’s ADVANCE Program is to facilitate women’s participation in scientific leadership by providing assistance when such opportunities.  Awards to Develop Scientific Leadership will provide teaching release time or other support appropriate to the level of commitment so that women faculty will have the time to take on the additional responsibility of a leadership role in their discipline without jeopardizing their ongoing research.  Tenure-track women faculty in the sciences and engineering at any rank are eligible to apply for these funds.