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Meet Chrystal Bell: Crime Scene Forensic Scientist2 comments

mandytoomey wrote 5 days ago: The episode starts with a man in a restaurant who inadvertently flashes the gun at his waist as he g … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Career Development Grants, Forensic Science

Meet Marcia Grant: University Founder1 comment

mandytoomey wrote 1 month ago: Although the permanent home of Marcia Grant, a 1963–64 fellow, is a beautiful old stone farmhouse in … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Education, fellowships and grants

Meet Kamala Visweswaran: Associate Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies at the University of Texas1 comment

mandytoomey wrote 1 month ago: In March 2009 nine scholars conducting research on India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan spent a day tryi … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Social Justice, Grants and Awards, American Fellow, Fellows, Kamala Visweswaran, Fictions of Feminist Ethnography, South Asia

Meet Margaret Jackson: Opera Singer and Ethnomusicologist

mandytoomey wrote 1 month ago: Margaret Jackson Margaret Jackson, a 2006–07 American Fellow, joined AAUW in March 2008. “I wanted v … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, fellowships and grants, American Fellows, Awards, ethnomusicology, Margaret Jackson

Project Profile: Arhythmetic Jukebox6 comments

mandytoomey wrote 1 month ago: Cynthia White, a 2007–08 Community Action Grant recipient, has big ideas about math. She wants to ch … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, The AAUW Community, Community Action Grant, fellowships and grants, mathematics

Meet Rachel Sternberg: Historian, Associate Professor, Author

mandytoomey wrote 2 months ago: Rachel Sternberg’s research about social attitudes and moral sensibilities related to misery in anci … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, American Fellowship, Grants & Awards, Fellowships and Awards, Pity and Power in Ancient Athens; Traegdy Offstage: Suf, greel, Classics, Rachel Stenberg, Fellows

Meet Leslie Walker: Pediatrician and Adolescent Medicine Specialist

mandytoomey wrote 2 months ago: A few nights ago I watched the film Chop Shop, about a homeless boy living in New York City and just … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women's Health, adolescent, chop shop, Seattle Children's Hospital, Selected Professions, Selected Professions Fellow, Woodson High School Clinic

Project Profile: Sisters Empowering Sisters1 comment

mandytoomey wrote 2 months ago: On August 27, after a three-week delay, Chris Brown’s sentence for his felony assault conviction was … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Mentor, Community Action Grants, Domestic Violence, Project Profile

Meet Marie Elena Reyes: Founder of the Frida Kahlo Institute

mandytoomey wrote 3 months ago: Marie Elena Reyes, 2001–02 Community Action Grant recipient, excelled in math throughout her early a … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Students and Educational Issues, Community Action Grant, Engineering, Frida Kahlo Institute, Frontera Grrls, Latina, Leadership Development, mathematics

Project Profile: Huntington Museum of Art's "Year of Women"

mandytoomey wrote 3 months ago: As Huntington Museum of Art Director Margaret Mary Lane explained, the Community Action Grant projec … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Art, Project Profiles, women artists

Meet Casandra Rauser: Research Development Officer and Biologist

mandytoomey wrote 4 months ago: For Casandra Rauser, 2004–05 American Fellow, life is all about the adventure. In 1996, after her se … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Educational Programs, Grants and Awards, American Fellow, Casandra Rauser, Fellowship, Costa Rica, enviromental education, University of California

Meet Dianne Braden: High School Journalism and Technology Teacher

mandytoomey wrote 4 months ago: It has been a year since I left teaching, and hearing the story of retired high school teacher Diann … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, STEM, technology, media, fellowships and grants, Teaching, Eleanor Roosevelt Teaching Fellow

Meet Luana Maroja: Evolutionary Biology Specialist

mandytoomey wrote 5 months ago: Ever wonder how kids whose moms are biologists pass the time? According to Luana Maroja, 2007–08 Ame … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Educational Programs, STEM, Grants and Awards, american fellowships, Luana Maroja, Biology, Evolution, Rio de Janeiro

Meet Kathleen Wood Laurila

mandytoomey wrote 5 months ago: 1988–89 Career Development Grant recipient Kathleen Wood Laurila started breaking through barriers a … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, women and work, Work, Career Development Grants, gender barrier

Meet Soamarat Vilaiyuk: Pediatric Rheumatologist

mandytoomey wrote 5 months ago: Soamarat Vilaiyuk, a 2005–06 International Fellow, was first inspired to pursue training in pediatri … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, international fellowships, fellowships, Medicine

Meet Angela Lindner and Jessica Strate Beach: Environmental Engineers

mandytoomey wrote 6 months ago: While 1997–98 Selected Professions Fellow Angela Lindner had never experienced sexism during her und … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, sex discrimination, women and work, STEM, Mentor, Selected Professions Fellow, Engineering, Engineers without borders, Environmental Engineering

Meet Gail Reimer: Founding Director of the Jewish Women's Archive

mandytoomey wrote 6 months ago: Growing up, Gail Reimer, a 1984–85 American Fellow, knew she was going to have to do something more … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, Women's History Month, Education, Women's History, American Fellowship, film, Blog, Jewish Women's Archive, Jewish Comedians

Meet Robin Blaetz: Women's Avant-Garde Cinema Researcher

mandytoomey wrote 7 months ago: After graduating with a bachelor of arts in English and French, 2004–05 American Fellow Robin Blaetz … more →

Tags: women and work, sexism, American Fellowship, Grants & Awards, fellowships and grants, Grants and Awards, film, French, francophile

Meet Carol Tang: Paleontologist and Research Associate1 comment

mandytoomey wrote 7 months ago: Carol Tang strains the mud from the bottom of Puente Orosco stream looking for live Mexipyrgus snail … more →

Tags: Fellowships, Grants and Awards, fellowships, Grants & Awards, fellowships and grants, Grants and Awards, paleontologist, California Academy of Sciences, Altered State: Climate Change in California