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 [...]
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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 »
Meet Hanna Stevenson: Sculptor and Apprentice Pipefitter
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women and Work, tagged career development grantee, Fairbanks, Fellowships, Fellowships and Awards, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, hanna Stevenson, pipefitter, University of Alaska on June 29, 2009, | 1 Comment »
This past winter, for 2007–08 Career Development grantee and sculptor Hanna Stevenson, a typical day began at 5:15 a.m. with a breakfast of ice cream and coffee. To protect her body from the cold Alaskan weather and high winds during her work as an apprentice pipefitter, she wore at least four layers of clothes. She [...]
Meet Soamarat Vilaiyuk: Pediatric Rheumatologist
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Fellowships, Following the Fellows, international fellowships, medicine on June 22, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
Soamarat Vilaiyuk, a 2005–06 International Fellow, was first inspired to pursue training in pediatric rheumatology by a child she met in her native Thailand. While working as a resident and fellow at Ramathibodi Hospital, she met a boy who had suffered from arthritis for many years. Soamarat explains, “Although he received many medications, the disease [...]
Meet Carol Tang: Paleontologist and Research Associate
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Altered State: Climate Change in California, California Academy of Sciences, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, grants and awards, paleontologist on May 1, 2009, | 1 Comment »
Carol Tang, a paleontologist and 1995–96 American Fellow, wants people to realize that although science is critical to understanding and solving many of the issues we face today, most scientists do science because it is fun. Carol has conducted field research in many interesting places, including England, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico. For instance, wading [...]
NCCWSL Experiences, Advice, and Excitement!
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, tagged Fellowships, leadership, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, SAC, Student Advisory Council on April 20, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The 2009 National Conference for College Women Student Leaders (NCCWSL) is coming, and I wanted Student Advisory Council members to share their thoughts and advice about this event. Here’s what they shared: Aeriel Anderson is a former 2007-08 AAUW Student Advisory Council member. Since serving as a student leader at NCCWSL last year, Anderson has [...]
Meet Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz: Professor, Researcher, and Mentor
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students & Educational Issues, tagged american fellowships, educational achievement gap, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, improving education, teach for america, teaching on February 20, 2009, | 3 Comments »
I first entered the teaching profession through Teach for America in 2001. During my preliminary training and teaching of fifth grade summer school in the Bronx, I witnessed firsthand the educational achievement gap — cockroach-infested drinking fountains, fifth graders reading at a first grade level —and came to more fully understand the role I could [...]
Meet Allison Rautman: Archeologist and Professor
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women and Work, tagged anthropology, Archeologist, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Girl Scouts, Grants & Awards, grants and awards on February 13, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
The site was catastrophically abandoned; people left their food and tools and apparently fled with little warning. Every place we tested was completely burned. There were piles of burned corn in food storage rooms, burned baskets filled with seeds, and clay pots and tools on the room floors where they had been smashed when the [...]
Meet Denise Decker: Senior Program Analyst for the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Posted in Educational Programs, Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women and Work, tagged american, American Fellowship, Disability Rights, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Grants & Awards, USAID, USDA on February 6, 2009, | 3 Comments »
I am always in awe of people who not only face adversity, but who, through their adversity, create something larger than themselves. This is the case of Denise Decker, a 1975-76 American Fellow, who has been blind since birth and who sees public service as a way to give back to the many family, friends, [...]
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