Since our founding in 1881, AAUW has strived to support women who raise awareness of pressing social issues through their work. With the increased importance of environmentalism and resource conservation in academia and public policy, AAUW is privileged to support alumnae who share their passion and expertise in these fields with their communities. Margaret Kunje, [...]
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Meet Margaret Kunje: Saving Malawi’s Forests
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged environmental science, fellows, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, International Fellowship program, Malawi, women in STEM on December 9, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Reflections on Time Well Spent
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, tagged AAUW, college students, fellows, Public Policy on December 6, 2010, | 1 Comment »
A lot of exciting things occur at AAUW’s national office. What makes coming to work most enjoyable, however, is the friendly and easy camaraderie with which all the staff interact in their daily efforts to help make this nation a more equitable place for women and girls. But besides the staff, another group of people [...]
Meet Rachel Sternberg: Historian, Associate Professor, Author
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged American Fellowship, Classics, fellows, Fellowships and Awards, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, Greel, Pity and Power in Ancient Athens; Traegdy Offstage: Suffering and Symoathy in Ancient Athens, Rachel Stenberg on October 9, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Rachel Sternberg’s research about social attitudes and moral sensibilities related to misery in ancient Athens was in part inspired by the year she spent in Mexico before starting graduate school. She said that in the 1980s Mexico was filled with beggars and that compassion fatigue set in quickly in Mexico City. “You would set forth [...]

