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 [...]
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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 »
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 [...]
Meet Dianne Braden: High School Journalism and Technology Teacher
Posted in Fellowships, Grants and Awards, tagged Eleanor Roosevelt Teaching Fellow, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, media, STEM, teaching, technology on August 7, 2009, | Leave a Comment »
It has been a year since I left teaching, and hearing the story of retired high school teacher Dianne Braden brought tears to my eyes. In the classroom I was inspired when students grasped the language of Shakespeare or wrote a research paper using proper internal citations. These days I am inspired by learning and [...]
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 [...]
Meet Felicia Battle: Information Security Officer
Posted in Students & Educational Issues, Women and Work, tagged Career Development Grants, education, Fellowships and Grants, Following the Fellows, higher education, technology, Women and Work, work/life balance on December 29, 2008, | 4 Comments »
This year, Felicia Battle, a 2007–08 Career Development Grantee, returned to school after six years, earning a master’s degree with a 4.0 GPA and simultaneously changing careers to work in corporate information security. After six months as a database analyst, Felicia was promoted to database security engineer at Wachovia Bank. The master’s of information systems [...]
Girls and STEM Education
Posted in Educational Programs, Equity in the News, S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, tagged mathematics, National Girls Collaborative Project, science, STEM, Tech Savvy, technology on March 21, 2008, | 2 Comments »
Do you ever wonder what types of events other AAUW branches put on? This weekend I visited the AAUW Buffalo (NY) Branch for their third-annual Tech Savvy event. The day exposes sixth to ninth grade girls to careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Although women make up more than 50 percent of the [...]
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