After graduating with a bachelor of arts in English and French, 2004–05 American Fellow Robin Blaetz traveled to Paris to reflect on her future. Within a month of arriving, Robin identified her new passion: avant garde film. She returned from Paris and applied to New York University’s cinema studies program, which claims to be the [...]
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Meet Robin Blaetz: Women’s Avant-Garde Cinema Researcher
Posted in Women and Work, tagged American Fellowship, Avant Garde, Cinema, Fellowships and Grants, film, Following the Fellows, Francophile, French, Grants & Awards, grants and awards, Sexism on May 8, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
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 Dian Belanger: Historian, Writer, and AAUW Member
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Antarctica, deep freeze, Dian Belanger, Fellowships, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, international fellowships, STEM on January 30, 2009, | 2 Comments »
I was looking forward to meeting Dian Belanger, a 1980–81 Career Development Grantee and long-time AAUW member. At her suggestion, we met in the National Gallery of Art’s atrium, where Dian told me about her recent book, Deep Freeze: The United States, the International Geophysical Year, and the Origins of Antarctica’s Age of Science. The [...]
Meet Florence Adong: Ugandan Refugee Camp Protection Officer
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, tagged Fellowships, Florence Adong, Following the Fellows, grants and awards, ICC, international fellowships, sexual violence, uganda, UNHCR, United Nations on November 21, 2008, | 3 Comments »
In June 2008 the U.N. Security Council unanimously voted into existence a resolution that, according to Marianne Mollmann, women’s rights advocate at Human Rights Watch, sends a message to the international community that “rape is a crime that should be prevented, and when it’s not, it should be systematically reported and effectively prosecuted.” The UNICEF [...]
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