If clustering women in the same classes and in the same residence halls helps advance them toward a career in engineering, is there more that can be done? “Role models,” says Pamela Norris, associate dean for research and graduate program at the School of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Virginia. About 31 percent of the students in the school of engineering are women – far above the national average of about 20 percent – but only about 14 percent of the faculty are women. Norris directs a program at U.Va. aimed at increasing the number of women fa...