Presidential
Awards ($1,000 each)
Maureen Lynch
Ph.D. student in School Psychology, single mother and returning
student. For interview transcribing costs for her study of lesbian,
gay, and bisexual high school students for an article in the School
Psychology Review.
Rosann Santos
Ph.D. student in History. For airfare and housing to attend the
Third International Women's Studies workshops at the University
of Havana, where she also plans to get detailed archival information
to study gender and education in Cuba.
Catherine Stanford
Ph.D. student in Anthropology, returning student dealing with a
physical illness. Pay for living costs associated with doing dissertation
fieldwork in Nicaragua, studying the impact of the Sandinista revolution
on families.
Women's Resource Center
To revitalize the Women's Resource Center in Dutch Quad by expanding
their library and developing awareness programs.
University Police Department
Send two officers for Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) training in
Richmond, Virginia. One officer will receive basic training and
the other will learn advanced techniques.
Named Awards
The Lillian Barlow Initiatives For Women Award ($500)
Rebecca Rogers
Ph.D. student in Reading. Support for research on literacy in mother-daughter
dyad, focussing on interactions of race, class, and gender.
The Gloria R. DeSole Fund for Initiatives For Women
($500)
Andrea Smith-Hunter
Ph.D. student in Organizational Studies. Cover costs of photocopying
and mailing questionnaires for dissertation research on the economic
success of women small business owners in upstate New York, comparing
white women and women of color in the personal service industry.
The Francine Frank Initiatives For Women Award ($565)
Erika Muse
Ph.D. student in Anthropology. Cover expenses while in Boston studying
Chinese Christian churches.
The Gladys and David Groudine Award ($500)
Keiko Miwa
Ph.D. student in Educational Administration and Policy Studies.
Field research in Bangladesh studying and evaluating the NGO government
project on Basic Education for Hard to Research Children. Cover
cost of travel to different project sites.
The Anne Gustin Scholarship for Women in Law and
Government ($500)
Cassandra Allison
Masters student of Library Science who already has an M.A. in Criminal
Justice and B.A. in Philosophy from the University at Albany. She
plans to continue on in law school. For cost of summer course.
The John S. Levato Award in Memory of Jennine O'Reilly-Conway
'88 ($500)
Jennifer Keys
Ph.D. student in Sociology. Expenses related to dissertation on
the "feeling rules" that govern women's abortion decisions.
She will do in-depth interviews with women and needs a transcribing
machine and qualitative analysis software.
The Secretarial/Clerical Council Initiatives For
Women Award ($250 + $550 from General Fund)
Doriane Brown
Secretary for Public Administration and Policy and part-time, returning
student in that department's Masters degree program. Funds cover
half the cost of a new computer.
The Lena Tucker Initiatives For Women Award ($500)
Addie Ann Elizabeth Jenne
Undergraduate Political Science major whose goals are to practice
criminal law and pursue a career in politics. Funding to help cover
the costs of taking the LSAT and applying to law schools.
The Susan Van Horn Shipherd ’64 Women in Science
Scholarship ($500)
Amma Agyemang
Undergraduate student majoring in Chemistry/pre-health. An African-American
woman born in Ghana, hoping to have a career in tropical medicine
and public health. Funds cover part of tuition for summer courses.
Initiatives For Women Awards
Ana Almonte ($350)
B.A./M.A. student in Spanish, and a returning student who surmounted
a poor previous undergraduate record to go on to be the first woman
in her family to obtain an undergraduate degree. For books, fees
and general tuition expenses.
Jinsook Choi ($750)
Ph.D. student in Anthropology. Plans to take a course in Guatemala
on the K'iche' Maya language in preparation for her dissertation
work.
Jeannette Corredor ($500)
Ph.D. student in Counseling Psychology. Puerto Rican woman who is
the first in her family to do graduate work. Funds supported her
attendance at American Counseling Association's World Conference
in San Diego in April 1999, where she presented a workshop, Counseling
the Latino Client.
Lara Gordon ($250)
Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology. Costs of photocopying and
mailing a survey questionnaire for her dissertation on the type,
frequency, and outcomes of education about disabilities programming
in public elementary schools.
Haley Woodside Jiron ($400)
Ph.D. student in Reading. For research on elementary school teaching
as women's work and particularly how women understand their jobs
in an era of legislative mandates on how reading will be taught.
Stacey Kolomer ($800)
Ph.D. student in Social Welfare. Interview costs for dissertation
research on the effect of religion on grandmother caregivers to
grandchildren in New York City and Dutchess County.
Erin Krivitski ($650)
Ph.D. student in Education and Counseling Psychology. For interviewing
children in a study comparing deaf and hearing-impaired children
on nonverbal skills.
Fonda Marie Lloyd ($500)
M.B.A. student in MSI and single mother returning to school. For
additional tutoring in statistics and additional childcare needed
to work on group projects.
B. Ruth Quinn ($500)
M.S.W. student and single mother. Tuition and living expenses.
13th Moon ($250)
Feminist literary journal. Workshops to advertise the journal.
Patricia Willis ($250)
D.A. in Humanistic Studies and M.A. student in Women's Studies.
Travel to two archives to do research on flight attendants' union,
as part of research on feminism and labor unions.
Sandra Winn-Wood ($500)
D.A. in Humanistic Studies with focus on Intercultural Communication
and Education. Costs of transcribing interviews, needed since she
has carpal tunnel syndrome. She is using ethnographic methods to
study democratic participation techniques in a pre-kindergarten
to eighth grade
alternative school.
Yi Yang ($500)
Employee of Wadsworth Center and student enrolled in Masters' in
Public Health program. She is a former doctor from Tianjin now working
as a laboratory technician and studying breast cancer. For tuition
for summer course at the University of Michigan on cancer epidemiology.
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