This is the third of several dispatches from AAUW Chief of Strategic Advancement, Jill Birdwhistell, written during her recently concluded trip to Paris for a UNESCO conference on behalf of AAUW. Why would it be difficult to give fully qualified CentralAfrican women scientists full-ride support for doctoral and post-doc studies in Sweden? Why would promising [...]
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Why Even Fewer?
Posted in S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged engineering, family, human potential, international, science, technology on October 8, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Who Was Rosalind Franklin?
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, Women's History, tagged Cambridge, Crick, DNA, engineering, King's College, Nobel Prize, Rosalind Franklin, science, USA Science and Engineering Festival, Watson on September 10, 2010, | 1 Comment »
If you don’t think of Rosalind Franklin when you’re thinking of great scientists, you’re not the only one. This accomplished but seldom-credited woman was a biophysicist who made many contributions to the field of science but is best known today for her critical role in understanding DNA. Franklin was born in 1920 in London and [...]
AAUW Awards 12 New Campus Action Project Grants
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged campus action project, Campus Action Projects, engineering, grants, math, technology, women in science on December 17, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Thanks to the generous support of the Mary Ann Ahrens–Iowa Giving Circle, AAUW is funding a record 12 Campus Action Project (CAP) teams in the 2009–10 academic year. CAP grants provide up to $5,000 in funding for each of the 12 teams CAP teams, which are made up of students and faculty at colleges and [...]
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 [...]
Learn, Grow, Lead, and Make an Impact
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged Campaign College, Campus Action Projects, CAP, engineering, Leadership Programs, mathematics, National Student Advisory Council, NCCWSL, SAC, science, STEM, student government, student leaders, technology on August 26, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Does this sound like you? You’ve thought about running for student government but aren’t sure how to go about it. You have a great plan for a campus program that helps women enter academic fields like science, technology, engineering, or math, but you need funding to implement it. You have a lot of ideas about [...]
Women in Engineering
Posted in S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, tagged engineering, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, science, STEM, WEPAN on June 22, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
This past week marked my first WEPAN conference. Like AAUW, the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) was started by a group of women searching for support in their professional careers. The organization is dedicated to improving the climate for and success of all women in engineering. Now celebrating its 20th birthday, WEPAN has grown [...]
Meet Angela Lindner and Jessica Strate Beach: Environmental Engineers
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Sex Discrimination, Women and Work, tagged engineering, Engineers without Borders, environmental engineering, Following the Fellows, mentor, Selected Professions Fellow, STEM on June 5, 2009, | 2 Comments »
While 1997–98 Selected Professions Fellow Angela Lindner had never experienced sexism during her undergraduate studies in chemistry at the College of Charleston, during one of her first days in a chemical engineering class as a master’s candidate she saw an ugly side that many women in STEM have faced. She was one of two women [...]
The Shoulders of Giants
Posted in Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged African Ameriican, Alice Phinney, engineering, mentor, minority engineers, Peggy Olorunsola, Women and Work on March 27, 2009, | 2 Comments »
They say that behind every successful man is a woman. I think it’s also fair to say that behind every successful woman is a woman — or, more likely, many women. Women’s History Month is a good time to think about the women who have helped us get where we are today — our mothers, [...]
Where Are All the Women?
Posted in Educational Programs, Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged engineering, Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, STEM, Where the Girls Are on February 19, 2009, | 3 Comments »
I used to be an engineer. For eight years, I designed satellites. The work was engrossing at times, and I loved designing with CAD (Computer Aided Design). It was like getting paid to play a video game. But the more time I spent working as an engineer, the more interested I became in a problem [...]
The Year of Science
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged education, engineering, girls, math, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, science, STEM, technology on January 29, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The Year of Science 2009, a national grassroots celebration, launched earlier this month in Boston, Massachusetts. In its honor, museums, federal agencies, schools, scientific societies, and other nonprofit and for-profit organizations will host events in all 50 states and in 13 countries. The celebration is the brainchild of the Coalition on the Public Understanding of [...]
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