As 2011 wraps up, I’d like to take this opportunity to remember and thank our readers and guests, our contributors, and the AAUW Dialog team, all of whom make this blog such a richly rewarding experience. Excellent posts by diverse voices, from Student Advisory Council members all the way to the AAUW executive director, continue [...]
Archive for the ‘Fellowships, Grants and Awards’ Category
Martha Eleanor Church: College President and Lifelong Volunteer
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Hood College, Martha Eleanor Church, National Geographic, Ringling Museum of Art, University of Chicago, University of Pittsburgh, Wellesley College on December 21, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Martha Eleanor Church, a 1959–60 American Fellow, is a woman who represents a commitment to scholarship. She earned her bachelor’s degree in geology and geography from Wellesley College as well as a master’s degree in economic geography and resource management from the University of Pittsburgh and a doctoral degree from the University of Chicago. She [...]
Meet Margaret Conover: Botanist and Chia Enthusiast
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, S T E M, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Chia, Community Action Grant, E-Girls, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Long Island Science Center, Margaret Conover on December 14, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Margaret Conover, a 1978–79 AAUW American Fellow, a 2000–01 AAUW Community Action Grantee, and a Fulbright Scholar, has had an exciting career as a researcher, botanist, science educator, and advocate for small museums. She found this path during her AAUW fellowship year in Australia, where she studied 13 rare plant species. During her stay, she [...]
Meet Michelle Segar: Exercise and Behavior Guru
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Michelle Segar, Rebranding Exercise: Closing the Gap between Values and Behavior, SHARP, Sport Health and Activity Research and Policy, University of Michigan, Women's Sports Foundation on December 7, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Have you made your New Year’s resolutions yet? Weight loss and a healthier lifestyle remain particularly common goals each year, yet very few people who set New Year’s resolutions to lose weight are successful. Are we setting ourselves up for failure and disappointment? 2005–06 American Fellow Michelle Segar believes that what society has taught us [...]
Meet Rachael Rollins: Lawyer and Title IX Champion
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Title IX, tagged AAUW, Boston Celtics, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, lacross, Massachusettes Department of Transportation, National Basketball Players Association, NFL Players Association, Northeastern University, Rachael Rollins, Title IX, University of Massachusetts Amherst, women leaders on November 30, 2011, | 1 Comment »
1996–97 Selected Professions Fellow Rachael Rollins’ inspiring path through the field of law began during her undergraduate years at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Rollins received a full scholarship to play college lacrosse only to find out after her freshman year that the lacrosse, volleyball, and tennis teams would be cut due to budgetary constraints. [...]
Celebrating 130 Years with Fellowships and Grants
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Women's History, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Association of Collegiate Alumnae, education, European Fellowship, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Ida Street, International Fellowshio, Louisa Holman Richardson, National AAUW Month, Virginia Alvarez-Hussey on November 28, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
This November, we’re celebrating our 130th Anniversary and the first annual National AAUW Month. This milestone has given me the opportunity to explore my personal connection to AAUW. Even though I’m a member of the millennial generation, I learned the value of education and women’s empowerment from my grandmother, a longtime AAUW member who attended [...]
Meet Maria Lane: Historical Geographer
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, education, Fellowships and Grants, Florida, Following the Fellows, Geographies of Mars: Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet, National Science Foundation, Organization of American States, University of New Mexico, University of Virginia on November 16, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
2007–08 American Fellow K. Maria D. Lane’s strong affinity for coastal southwest Florida, the region in which she grew up, led to her interest in maps and places. Although she was exposed to multiple cultural and environmental landscapes there, Lane’s career goal was not to become the academic geographer she is today. Her interest in [...]
Meet Eden Wurmfeld: Acclaimed Film Producer
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Bringing Up Mom, Career Development Grant, Eden Wurmfeld, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Habeas on the Gate, Kissing Jessica Stein, Miss Representation, No Impact Man, Oprah Winfre Network, OWN, Sunset Story, The Hammer, Variety on November 9, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
The documentary Miss Representation, recently aired on the Oprah Winfrey Network, provides startling facts about women’s portrayal and representation in media. The world of media, television, and movies often construct images of women as sexualized objects or unintelligent sidekicks when compared with male counterparts, leaving our culture with a negative perception of female empowerment. Eden [...]
Meet Rose Stremlau: Ethnohistorian
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, ethnohistory, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Native American Heritage Month, Sustaining the Cherokee Family, University of Illinois, University of North Carolina on November 2, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
November is Native American Heritage Month, thus we are honoring a fellow who studies Native American history. Rose Stremlau, a 2009–10 American Fellow, earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her pride in that university, however, was compromised by the realization that the now-retired Chief Illiniwek mascot’s image reflects racist, historically inaccurate [...]
Meet Claudia Brazzale: Dancer and Interdisciplinary Academic
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Claudia Brazzale, Dancing through Otherness: The Circulation of West African Dance in Italy, education, Falling into the Spectacle: Berlusconi's Performance of Modernity and Gender, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, International Fellowship, London Contemporary Dance School, Merce Cunningham Studio, Princeton University, Rutgers University on October 26, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
2010–11 International Fellow Claudia Brazzale parlayed her dream of being a dancer into a transformative and interdisciplinary career. She is an accomplished dancer, having studied at the London Contemporary Dance School and Merce Cunningham Studio, with an extensive list of productions and choreographies. Brazzale has a multifaceted interest in anthropology and various fields of humanities [...]
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