Initiatives for Women Hosts 4th Awards
A leading official of the Ford Foundation
who has published extensively on access for women and minorities into higher
education and the impact of women’s studies will be the featured guest
when Initiatives For Women (IFW)hosts its Fourth Annual Awards Dinner on Wednesday,
Nov. 5 at 5:30 p.m. at Wolfert’s Roost Country Club on Van Rensselaer Boulevard
in Albany.
A "Conversation with Alison
R. Bernstein” and President Hitchcock will highlight the dinner. Bernstein
is the Foundation’s vice president of its education, media arts and culture
program. An expert also on community college transfer issues and American Indian
affairs, she is the author of American Indians and World War II: Towards a New
Era in Indian Affairs.
Tickets for the event are $60, with
patron and sponsor tickets, which include a private reception with the keynote
speakers, $150 and $100, respectively.
IFW has awarded grants of varying
dollar amounts for past four years to assist students, faculty and programs
at Albany. Gloria DeSole, senior advisor to the President for affirmative action
and employment planning and chair of the Initiatives for Women Steering Committee,
said, “The opportunity to make a significant difference in the lives of
women whose dreams need support is a privilege.”
Presidential Awards of $1,000
each this year go to:
- Shakira Franco, M.S. student
in Epidemiology, to help finish thesis project analyzing prenatal care and
assistance programs data to assess racial and ethnic differences of HIV-risk
to pregnant women and differences in the proportion of HIV counseling and
testing services they receive.
- Hermas Rodriguez-Perez, M.A. student
in Latin American & Caribbean studies, to travel to El Salvador to study
the reintegration to civilian life of women “guerrillas” after a
ten-year civil war.
- Marlene Sarjeant, Ph.D. student
in ecology, to hire a student research assistant for her project on the status
of the Karner Blue butterfly.
- Mary Sullivan, M.A./C.A.S. student
in public history, to replace failed computer equipment.
Other awards, of varying amounts,
went to:
- Sherry Baird, of the Academic
Affairs staff, to enroll in a GRE course and apply for GRE exam.
- Mary Galvin, part-time faculty
member in Women’s studies, for reprint fees to publish her first book.
- Anne Remondi Imhoff, Ph.D. student
in counseling psychology, to conduct research on working adults to determine
whether the degree of match between interests and occupational type, together
with the degree of match between central issues and job issues, predicts levels
of job satisfaction overall.
- Institute for Research on Women,
a program to promote research and scholarship on women and gender, publish
a newsletter and create a homepage on the Web.
- Deborah LaFond, Donald Juedes,
and Rosemary Hennessy, joint effort of University Libraries and departments
of English and Women’s Studies, to purchase videos to create a series,
“Seeing Women Transnationally.”
- Dawn McCaffrey, a Ph.D. student
in sociology, to purchase qualitative data analysis software for her dissertation
on understanding the process through which victims of traumatic life events
become activists in social movements that address the type of trauma they
experienced.
- Jeannine Morell, Office of Human
Resources Management staffer, to enroll in an independent study course. Michelle
Napierski-Prancl, Ph.D. student in sociology, to purchase computer equipment
to assist with her research project on the work experiences of women employed
as maids at a residential cleaning service firm.
- Dana Rosenstreich, M.P.P. student
in public affairs and policy, to reimburse travel expenses to interview county
civil service workers in New York and understand the impact of welfare reform,
especially on women clients.
- Sreeroopa Sarkar, Ph.D. student
in educational psychology and statistics, to travel to Calcutta, India, to
conduct preliminary work identifying social stressors that make young females
in that country vulnerable to mental health problems and the coping mechanisms
for responding to those stressors.
- Olga Sharoichenko, Ph.D. student,
to help pay for international student medical insurance for her and her son.
- Deborah White, Ph.D. student in
sociology, to hire a research assistant to code and enter research data concerning
women in politics, especially women who ran for Congress.
Special Named Awards:
- Jennine O’Reilly Conway Award ($520): Olga Sharoichenko
(for same purpose as above). Fine Art Scholarship Award ($500): Tracy
Straight Freed, undergraduate in fine arts, for books and printmaking material.
- Anne Gustin Scholarship for Women in Law and Government
($500): Caron Jacobson, Ph.D. student in criminal justice, for research
materials to study rape crisis centers in Eastern Bloc countries.
- University at Albany’s Women’s Association Award
($500 each): Kathy Black, Ph.D. student in social welfare, to complete research
on
gender differences in communications with hospitalized elderly patients; and
Deborah Woeckner-Saavedra, masters student in Latin
American & Caribbean studies, to register for additional classes.
- Bernice Mosbey Peebles ‘39 Scholarship Award ($500):
Celinda Vanichpong, undergraduate in Spanish, to travel to Spain for Fall
1997
semester.
