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 [...]
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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 »
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 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 [...]
SisterMentors: Building the Dream for 15 Years
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Conference Center, Community Action Grant, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, mentor, Shireen Lewis, SisterMentors, Washington D.C. on October 19, 2011, | 3 Comments »
AAUW holds a special place in my heart. I received an American Fellowship during the last year of my pursuit of my doctorate, and I was awarded a Community Action Grant to help SisterMentors, the nonprofit program that I founded. I started SisterMentors in 1997 because I wanted to be in the company of women [...]
Parting Words from Last Year’s Fellows and Grantees
Posted in A Women's Nation, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, Career Development Grant, education, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, International Fellowship on September 21, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
There are many rewarding aspects to working in Fellowships and Grants at AAUW, but one in particular is reading about all the amazing accomplishments of our outgoing fellowship and grant recipients in their final reports. Some have graduated and are venturing into the working world; others are finding new inspiration as they make the final [...]
Meet Laura Jean Beard: Literary Critic and Feminist Scholar
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Women's History, tagged American Fellowship, Aregentina, autobiography, Brazil, Candada, feminism, feminist scholars, Following the Fellows, Fulbright, history, indigenous peoples, Johns Hopkins University, Texas Tech University, United States, University of Alberta on July 27, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
I became interested in women’s autobiography around the same time I began calling myself a feminist. I wanted to learn about the realities of women’s lives and hear their stories in their own words, especially since much feminist research seeks to recover the lost perspectives of women whose contributions have been written out of history. [...]
Meet Andrea Rother: Environmental Sociologist and Health Advocate
Posted in Educational Programs, Equity in the News, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged Africa, American Fellowship, environmental sociology, family medicine, Following the Fellows, Michigan State, pesticide, poison, Public Health, South Africa, U.N., University of Cape Town, University of Zimbabwe on March 17, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
For Andrea Rother, 2002–03 American Fellowship recipient, finding her niche in environmental sociology specializing in pesticide risk management was certainly a process. Currently based out of the University of Cape Town’s School of Public Health and Family Medicine in South Africa, Rother became interested in Africa started when she participated in an exchange program between [...]
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