For almost 130 years, AAUW has been opening the doors of higher education and providing opportunities for women through its fellowship and grant programs. This year, AAUW has awarded $3.2 million in support of 215 remarkable scholars, research projects, and programs promoting education and equity for women and girls. We are thrilled to launch the [...]
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$3.2 Million Awarded
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged American Fellow, Career Development Grant, Community Action Grant, Natalie Dawson, Shariffa Sabrie, Vivian Nixon on August 4, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Meet Kate Schapira: Poet, Teacher, Program Developer
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Community Action Grant, Following the Fellows on April 21, 2010, | Leave a Comment »
Camp Beacon Women’s Correctional Facility is not surrounded by a fence, and there is no barbed wire. Rather, the women serving in this minimum security prison wear ankle bracelets, which set off an alarm if they pass the boundary. It was here at this atypical prison that Kate Schapira, a 2002–03 AAUW Community Action Grant [...]
Meet Sara Rashad: Filmmaker and Activist
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women's Health, tagged AAUW, Abuja International Film Festival, African women, Community Action Grant, Fellowships and Grants, female genital cutting, FGC, Following the Fellows, Tahara, Women's Health on March 24, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Facts on Female Genital Cutting FGC is still practiced in more than 28 countries. Almost 50 percent of the women who have experienced FGC are living in Egypt or Ethiopia. An estimated 100million to 140 million women worldwide have received FGC. In Egypt, about 90 percent of girls are cut between the ages of 5 [...]
Campus Sexual Assault: A New Report and Project
Posted in Sexual Harassment, Students & Educational Issues, tagged center for public integrity, Community Action Grant, SAFER, sexual assault, sexual assault on campus on December 2, 2009, | 5 Comments »
During their college careers, 20 to 25 percent of women face sexual assault, and many campuses aren’t doing enough to keep students safe or offering them appropriate avenues for reporting the crime. This week the Center for Public Integrity released a report called “Sexual Assault on Campus: A Frustrating Search for Justice.” Staff at the [...]
Project Profile: Arhythmetic Jukebox
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged Community Action Grant, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, mathematics on October 23, 2009, | 6 Comments »
Cynthia White, a 2007–08 Community Action Grant recipient, has big ideas about math. She wants to change students’ realities about their inability to do math. “I don’t want it to be okay to say, ‘I can’t do math.’” As a math educator, Cynthia applied for an AAUW Community Action Grant and an AAUW Selected Professions [...]
Meet Marie Elena Reyes: Founder of the Frida Kahlo Institute
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, tagged Community Action Grant, engineering, Following the Fellows, Frida Kahlo Institute, Frontera Grrls, Latina, leadership development, mathematics, science, self esteem, STEM, technology on September 11, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Marie Elena Reyes, 2001–02 Community Action Grant recipient, excelled in math throughout her early academic career but received little instruction or encouragement about science. Marie Elena was married with two children when she took her first biology class. “I was shocked by how exciting it was,” she said of the class. It was then that [...]
Project Profile: Eureka
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women and Work, tagged Community Action Grant, mentor, science, STEM on March 27, 2009, | 1 Comment »
“Leading and encouraging a small group of female students in STEM activities has been a dream of mine for a long time,” said Gudrun Hutchins, a 2004–06 Community Action Grant recipient. Gudrun worked for many years as an experimental laboratory physicist mentoring young women at work and occasionally giving presentations about women in math and [...]
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