After spending a semester meeting and interviewing former AAUW fellows and grantees, I have come to see AAUW awards as opportunities for recipients to develop themselves as women, mentors, and people who are hoping to share their knowledge. 2010–11 American Fellow Mary Blair is the perfect example. Fascinated with science as a child, Blair continued [...]
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Meet Mary Blair: Mentor and Biologist
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, American Fellowship, American Journal of Primatology, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, Mary Blair, science, Swarthmore College on January 11, 2012, | Leave a Comment »
24/7 Engineering: Live It and Learn It
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, tagged AAUW, Developing Revolutionary Engineers and Mentors conference, education, engineering, Flexus, Girl Scout Engineering Saturday, Girls Excelling in Math and Sciences, Hypatia Women in Engineering Learning Community, Keys to Empowering Youth, science, STEM, University of Iowa, University of Maryland, University of Texas - Austin, Virginia Tech, women in engineering, Women in Engineering Program, Women in Science and Engineering on August 22, 2011, | 4 Comments »
Living and learning communities for women students are a new phenomenon in engineering schools all over the country. One of the many goals of these communities is to bolster the retention rates of women engineers as well as to help combat some of the stereotypes against women in the engineering fields. Hypatia Women in Engineering [...]
STEM Grantees Front and Center in Kentucky
Posted in Educational Programs, S T E M, Students & Educational Issues, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged @aauwstem, aquatic life, Biology, electricity, Ellen Nolan, fifth grade, fourth grade, Kentucky, KY, leadership, Meadowthorpe, MISS, National Girls Collaborative Project, NGCP, pollution, science, self-confidence on May 20, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Learning about electricity while developing leadership skills, self-confidence, efficacy and content knowledge were goals of the Meadowthorpe is Serving Sisters (MISS ) mentoring program. MISS Electricity was one of the mini-grant programs members heard about at the recent AAUW Kentucky Convention. Members were given presentations by the recent National Girls Collaborative Project (NGCP) mini-grant winners [...]
Why Do We Need Women in STEM Fields?
Posted in AAUW research, S T E M, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged competitiveness, creativity, design, engineering, innovation, mathematics, science, technology on February 28, 2011, | 2 Comments »
Each month this year, AAUW teams up with Nature Publishing Group, one of the world’s leading science publishers, in an online forum on women in science. The AAUW posts highlight findings from our 2010 research report, Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, now in its third printing. This is a question [...]
Bark Loudly at the Lion — U.N. Women Has Your Back
Posted in S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's Health, tagged Afsana, Bachelet, Bangladesh, Canright, Chile, Congo, engineering, Erez, Fiji, Intel, math, NASA, NGO, Nigeria, Nwadinobi, Project Girl Performance Collective, science, Status of Women, STEM, Tabualevu, technology, U.N., U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, U.N. Women, UN, Will.i.am on February 23, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
For many in the nongovernmental-organization community, the 55th U.N. Commission on the Status of Women began when more than 250 women of all ages from around the world gathered on Monday for NGO Consultation Day, an opportunity to set the stage for two weeks of workshops, panels, discussions, and interactions that will inform the final [...]
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