Distributed Mentor Project operated by the Computer Research Association during the past six years. Its goal is to increase participation of women in research and education in disciplinary areas associated with information technology. The project provides one-on-one mentoring by bringing female undergraduate women into summer research projects under the direct supervision of female researchers at major research universities. This project has been notably successful in increasing the fraction of women continuing on to graduate work. Multimodal Interaction - James Flanagan at Rutgers University has developed an approach to integrate sight, sound, and touch in human computer interaction to allow arbitrary channel selection in providing commands to a computer. The project has produced a working demonstration of an integrated haptic output, data glove input, speech output, distant-talker microphone speech input, and video display output system. 272 CRITERIA FOR SELECTING PROPOSALS: The National Science Board approved revised criteria for evaluating proposals submitted to NSF at its meeting on March 28, 1997 (NSB97-72). The revised criteria are designed to be useful and relevant across NSF's many different programs, however, NSF will continue to employ special criteria as required to highlight the specific objectives of certain programs and activities. The revised merit review criteria are
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