Idalia Ramos is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Electronics, University of Puerto Rico, Humacao. Her research is in the areas of materials and implementation of micro-elecro-mechanical devices, micro- and nano-fibers. She is also the Program Director of two National Science Foundation funded programs: a Collaborative to Integrate Research and Education between the University of Puerto Rico and the University of Pennsylvania and the ADVANCE Institutional Transformation, a program to change the status of women in the science faculty at the University of Puerto Rico, Humacao.