Artist and 2009–10 AAUW Career Development Grantee Esy Casey was working in book design when her best friend, Sarah Friedland, asked her to help film a documentary on Zulu women’s experiences with HIV and AIDS. Though she had never worked a camera in a documentary context, Casey quit her job and began taking intensive classes [...]
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Meet Jill Deiss: Book Conservator and Bookbinder
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged book binding, Career Development Grants, Cat Tail Run Hand Bookbinding, conservation, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows on May 12, 2010, | 2 Comments »
A renowned bookbinder and conservator, Jill Deiss has cleaned and pressed the pages of historical works like Edgar Allen Poe’s family Bible, John Wilkes Booth’s diary, and Shakespeare’s First Folio. These days Jill is looking forward to pressing and cleaning a letter signed by Eleanor Roosevelt and addressed to AAUW. The conservation of this letter [...]
CineSalon
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, AAUW New York City Branch, Career Development Grants, CineSalon, City University of New York, CUNY, Ester Casey, facebook, Jill Orschel, Melissa Hacker, Sarah Cortese, Sister Wife, The Chambered Nautilus, Unravelling, Vanessa Woods, women filmmakers, women in film on February 24, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Something very exciting is happening in New York City. It started this fall when Ester Casey and Melissa Hacker, who both attend the City University of New York, Hunter College, and are current AAUW Career Development Grant recipients, met at an AAUW New York City Branch gathering. While chatting over tea and cookies they found [...]
Meet Chrystal Bell: Crime Scene Forensic Scientist
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged Career Development Grants, Following the Fellows, forensic science on December 11, 2009, | 2 Comments »
The episode starts with a man in a restaurant who inadvertently flashes the gun at his waist as he grabs his wallet. The camera zooms in for a close-up of an eye, which reflects that gun. The next shot shows the same man flashing a knowing smile, and in the next he is lying on [...]
World AIDS Day
Posted in Educational Programs, Women's Health, tagged (RED), AIDS, Career Development Grants, Comprehensive Sex education, Ester Casey, HIV, Prevention, product (RED), Thing with no name, World AIDS Day on December 1, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Today is World AIDS Day — a day dedicated to raising awareness of HIV and AIDS. This week is also the third anniversary of the death of my good friend David from the disease. David was my mentor at my first job out of college. He taught me creative problem solving and that nothing can [...]
Meet Shevon Harvey: Professor, Researcher, Advocate
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women's Health, tagged Career Development Grants, Fellowships and Grants, grants and awards, Public Health, Shevon Harvey on October 16, 2009, | 2 Comments »
The issue of health care reform is being debated in living rooms, Congressional offices, and at watercoolers around the country. Currently, both the House and Senate are continuing to seek out a way to meld together all the different versions of the bills into one that might get enough support to pass. Shevon Harvey, a [...]
Words of Wisdom: Advice from AAUW Former Fellows
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged American Fellowship, Career Development Grants, Eleanor Roosevelt Teaching Fellow, fellow, international fellowships on August 17, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The stories of the AAUW fellowship and grant alumnae have been with me since I started my master’s degree last fall. As the advice has accumulated, the former fellows have kept me afloat throughout the year. Looking ahead to the upcoming school year, I wanted to share some of the advice they have given that [...]
Meet Chris Simoniello: Education and Outreach Coordinator
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Career Development Grants, GCOOS, grants and awards, Gulf of Mexico, Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System, NOAA, Ocean Observing System, SEACOOS on May 22, 2009, | 2 Comments »
Diving into ocean waters to install and retrieve instruments that provide information about water temperature, salinity, currents, and more is only one part of 1998–99 Career Development Grantee Chris Simoniello’s duties as the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS) Education and Outreach Coordinator. The goal of the organization is to make science relevant [...]
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