Recipients

Award Winners 2010

ENDOWED AWARDS

Louise C. and Earl M. Applegate Award

Jennifer Woodward ($500.)
Ms. Woodward is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science. She will use this funding for travel expenses to the National Archives, which hosts letters of correspondence between the public and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.  Using these documents, she will explore the early (1965-1968) interpretations of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Barlow Family Award

Christina Diamente ($500.)

Ms. Diamente is a graduate student in the Department of Africana Studies. This funding will defray the travel and research costs associated with her work on Alene Lee, an African-American and Cherokee Indian, who worked closely with prominent Beat Generation writers, such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.

Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award

Lissette Acosta-Corneil ($500.)

Ms. Acosta-Corneil is a Ph.D. candidate in the Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies Department. Her funding will support travel expenses to the Dominican Studies Institute in New York City. Her research is centered on women in Hispaniola, the first colony of the Americas.    

The Gloria R. DeSole Fund for IFW

Celia Rouse ($400.)

Ms. Rouse will use her award to attend the annual National Association of Research in Science Teaching conference. Her dissertation topic will address what impacts minority students who participate in the Science and Technology Entry Program (STEP) to pursue science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields and the licensed professions in college.

Ford Foundation IFW Women in Science Fellowship

Nakesha Smith ($1000.)

Ms. Smith will use this award to attend her first major international meeting of the RNA Society. With colleagues, she will present research on bacterial riboswitches, which represent a new target for design of novel antibiotic compounds. Novel antibiotics are needed for the treatment of antibiotic resistant infections, a critical and rapidly growing problem in world-wide medicine.

The Judy L. Genshaft Fund for IFW Scholarship

Katherine Pais ($557.)

Ms. Pais is an undergraduate academic advisor in the University’s Advisement Services Center. Last year, she received the 2009 NACADA Outstanding New Advisor Certificate of Merit. To enhance her knowledge in this area, she will attend this year’s regional National Academic Advising Association conference. One of her conference goals is to learn more about advisement relating to our veteran student population.

The Haynes-Davis Memorial Scholarship

Monica Paulina Cordoba Chaves ($500.)

Ms. Cordoba is pursuing a Masters degree in Social Work. Her interest in social work focuses on creating community-based organizations that provide services to women in need. Her award will be used to defray the cost of academic books for her coursework.

Karen R. Hitchcock New Frontiers Fund

Carolyn Corrado ($500.)

Ms. Corrado will use her IFW funding to support her dissertation research on how “White” high school aged students, who identify with hip hop culture, negotiate “Whiteness.” She is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology.

Joanna Demurat ($500.)

Ms. Demurat is pursuing a Ph.D. in Education Administration. She will use her grant to cover expenses related to field research that is necessary for further analysis of the specific characteristics of private higher education institutions in Poland. 

Michelle DuRoss($500.)

Ms. DuRoss is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History. Her dissertation, entitled, Passion in the Age of Reason: The 1787 divorce case of Isaac and Elizabeth Gouverneur, uses this particular case to explore eighteenth century gender relations. IFW funding will be used for travel expenses to archives in New York City and Florida.

Callen Fishman ($490.)

Ms. Fishman is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology. She will use her award to offset costs associated with her dissertation research. The topic of her study is parents’ motivations for involvement in home-based and school-based activities, as well as their participation in special education planning for an underrepresented population of students.

Jwa Kyum Kim ($500.)

Ms. Kim, a doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare, will use her award to present a research poster at the annual Gerontological Society of America conference. Her research project explores the benefits of evidence-based health promotion programs for grandparent caregivers.

Katherine Kowalski ($500.)

Ms. Kowalski a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs. Her pilot study is entitled, Socially constructed identities and immigrant integration into health systems: A tale of two cities. This is an analysis of immigrant identity formation and integration into health systems in two U.S. cities, is a precursor to successful and robust political and economic participation. 

Melanie Lantz ($500.)

Ms. Lantz will use this award will be used for travel expenses to attend the American Psychological Association’s Annual Conference. At this conference, Ms. Lantz will accept the position of co-chair of Student Affiliates of Seventeen. She will also be assisting in the presentation of research and volunteering at this professional event.

Hsin-Hua Lee ($500.)

Ms. Lee is in her second year of doctoral work in the University’s APA-accredited Ph.D. program in Counseling Psychology in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology. Her award will be used to help offset travel expenses associated with presenting her research findings at several national and international venues. 

Ji Eun Lee ($500.)

Ms. Lee is pursuing a doctorate in the Educational Psychology Program. She will attend the summer 2010 ICPSR program which provides intensive training in the methodologies and statistics of social science research.

Jessica Martin ($500.)

Ms. Martin is currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology. Her dissertation will examine how college students’ personality traits and motivations for drinking predict their alcohol use and problems experienced as a result of alcohol use. Her funding will be used to compensate participants who partake in the study.

Vanessa Panfil ($500.)

Ms. Panfil, a third-year doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice, is working on her comprehensive exam entitled, Socially-situated identities of gay gang- and crime-involved men.  She will use her award for primary data collection.

Lee SeHwa ($500.)

Ms. SeHwa is a third year doctoral student in the Department of Sociology, specializing in the field of gender, migration, and family.  For her dissertation, she will conduct in-depth interviews with international graduate students and their wives, to explore how women’s temporary migration to the United States as student’s wife effects their status and gender relations at home.

Honoring Our Mothers Award

Elizabeth Schilling ($500.)

Ms. Schilling  is a Ph.D. candidate in the field of sociology, with areas of concentration in families and culture. This award will help defray research costs of her dissertation, entitled, Leisure throughout the trajectory of motherhood: A life course approach.

Initiatives For Women Endowment Award

Karolina Sonja Babic ($500.)

Ms. Babic is a student in the Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies Ph.D. program. She is studying the Chilean dance, la cueca sola, which constitutes an interesting part of women’s history in and outside of Chile, yet is a practically unstudied case of unique female political contention. IFW funding will help with travel costs to Chile.

Sarah Niehorster ($550.)

Ms. Niehorster is a doctoral student in the Department of Industrial Organizational Psychology. Her award will be used to attend the conference of the Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology, where she will present three research papers.

Camela Steinke ($650.)

Ms. Steinke is a doctoral candidate in the School of Criminal Justice. Her dissertation, entitled The role of self-esteem in residential treatment centers for youth, aims to better understand the effects youths’ self-esteem has on their progress through residential treatment and their outcomes post-discharge.

The Susan Van Horn-Shipherd '64 Women in Science Scholarship

Fei Liu ($500.)

Ms. Liu will use this scholarship to offset travel and conference expenses to present her scientific research at the RNA Society 2010 Meeting. Ms. Liu is a fourth year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry.  UAlbany Giving Matters article.

The Women in Technology Award

CCI Women in Technology Program ($500.)

Technology Leaders of Today is an initiative of the College of Computing and Information Women in Technology Program to empower and support women studying computing and information. This IFW award will provide partial support for this speaker series which brings role models in the field to campus to talk about the challenges and successes along their paths.

General Awards

Andrew Davies ($300.)

Mr. Davies is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice. His dissertation research focuses on the psychology of rape victimization. In his archival research, he will analyze over 1,000 narrative accounts collected from rape survivors describing their victimization.

Alena Kryukovskaya ($300.)

Ms. Kryukovskaya is currently a graduate student in the Department of Information Studies. She will use her IFW funding to attend her first American Library Association conference. This will enable her to learn about new trends and network with professionals in her field. 

Fujishima Miyo ($450.)

Ms. Miyo is a graduate student in the School of Social Welfare. She will use her funding to attend the Study Abroad in Korea: Culture, Social Welfare and Spiritual Diversity summer course. This program will give Fujishima the opportunity to observe Korean social work techniques and to study spirituality in social work.

Rebecca Ossorio ($400.)

Ms. Ossorio is working towards a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction at the Department of Educational Theory and Practice. Her funding will support travel to the American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting to present her paper entitled, Student emotional response to critical higher education course content.  

Jisung Park ($500.)

Ms. Park is a student in the School of Social Welfare’s doctoral program, whose research interests include gerontology, in particular the positive impact of spirituality on the quality of life among older adults. Her award will be used to attend the Summer Institute in Statistics Workshop at the University of Kansas.

Ráchael Powers ($450.)

Ms. Powers is a doctoral candidate at the School of Criminal Justice. This award will help defray the costs to attend the American Society of Criminology conference, where Ms. Powers will present a paper, entitled Minding the gaps: Exploring the gender and race gap in violent victimization using an intersectional framework.

Loretta Pyles ($450.)

Dr. Pyles is an assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare. The goal of her research project, entitled, Transforming rural Haiti through sustainable grassroots development, is to support the national peasant movement in Haiti, with particular attention to women’s role in the movement.

 Rostati Rostati ($300.)

Ms. Rostati will use her IFW funding to attend and present the research paper, Instructional conversation about digital objects in an EFL online course, at the American Educational Research Association conference.

Lei Wu ($500.)

Ms. Wu will present her paper, Perspectives on employment of the participants in a specific welfare community employment program in Beijing, at the Community Development/ International Association for Community Development Joint Annual International Conference. Her award will help to defray travel costs. 

Award Winners 2009

ENDOWED AWARDS

Louise C. and Earl M. Applegate Award ($500)

Nicole MacFarland
Nicole MacFarland is a doctoral student at the School of Social Welfare. She will present findings of a pilot study on her dissertation research topic, geriatric addictions, at the 2009 Council of Social Work Education Conference.

Barlow Family Award ($500)

Nina Fei Yang
Nina Fei Yang is a graduate student in the Women’s Studies Department M.A. Program. This funding will defray the travel and research costs associated with work on her thesis, “A Comparative Study on Battered Women Who Kill and Legal Responses to them in the United States and China.”

Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award ($500)

Sarah Taylor
Sarah Taylor is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology. Her research is centered on a Mayan village in Yucatan, Mexico where she is examining the social and economic changes occurring since the opening of a nearby archeological zone and the subsequent implementation of a community-based tourism project in 2001.   

Karen R. Hitchcock New Frontiers Fund

Susan Appe
Susan Appe ($500) will use her IFW funding to support preliminary dissertation research on the growing role of women’s organizations as a subset of civil society organizations in developing and transitional countries. This summer, she will conduct on-site research in Ecuador and Colombia.

Binahayati Binahayati
Binahayati Binahayati ($500) is a doctoral student at the School of Social Welfare. Her award will provide travel support to work on her dissertation which is based on inter-organizational relations among Indonesian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) which provide services to victims of domestic violence and human trafficking.

Jill DelTosta
Jill DelTosta ($222) will use IFW funds to attend and present her research, ‘state of the art’ clinical supervision, at the International Interdisciplinary Conference on Clinical Supervision. Ms. DelTosta is a Counseling Psychology doctoral student.

Ilona Flores
Ilona Flores ($500) is currently a Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology. She will use her award to offset costs associated with a year-long field project in Nicaragua.  Her research focuses on the effects of recent anti-abortion legislation on women’s reproductive experience in Nicaragua.

Laura Milanés
Laura Milanés ($500) doctoral student in the department of Sociology, will use this award to attend the Business History Conference. She will present a paper exploring, from a sociological perspective, how business historians have theorized the role of the media (or lack of) on the field of large U.S. corporations in 1980s-2000s. This paper is motivated by and linked to her Master’s thesis on gender and the representation of business leaders in the U.S. press.

Jacqueline Villarrubia-Mendoza
Jacqueline Villarrubia-Mendoza ($1000), a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, will participate in the Latin American Studies Association Congress. She will present a paper entitled,” Exploring Differential Dynamics of Hispanic Residential Incorporation in New Destinations: A Comparison between the Hudson Valley and New York City.” This research focuses on the settlement patterns and residential incorporation of Hispanic immigrants in the Hudson Valley region and how incorporation varies by gender.

Young Ah You
Young Ah You ($500) is currently working on her Ph.D. in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. This IFW award will provide assistance to attend Kansas University Summer Institute in Statistics’ course, “Social Network Dynamics.”

Initiatives For Women Endowment Award

Heidi Bonner
Heidi Bonner ($240) will use this financial assistance to purchase NVivo software to support the analysis of qualitative data from the Project on Policing Neighborhoods. Ms. Bonner is a doctoral student at the School of Criminal Justice.

Jennifer Courtney
Jennifer Courtney ($500) is a Ph.D. student at the School of Social Welfare. Her award will help with costs associated with her doctoral research. Her dissertation goals are to further develop and evaluate an intervention program for family members of veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to enhance empathy and support for their veteran.

The Susan Van Horn-Shipherd '64 Women in Science Scholarship

Melanie Shoup
Melanie Shoup ($500) will use her scholarship to purchase supplies to support her dissertation research and offset travel costs to present findings from her study, “Female Olfactory-Based Mate Choice.”

General Awards

Hillary Closs
Hillary Closs ($500) is an undergraduate majoring in social work. Her goal is to earn a Master’s degree in Social Welfare, once she has completed her current studies. This scholarship will help to defray her undergraduate tuition costs.

Vanessa DeYulius
Vanessa DelYulius ($500) is Master’s student at the School of Public Health. She is currently participating in the PeerCorps internship program in Tanzania, Africa. Her IFW award will be used to support this endeavor.  

Mara Drogan
Mara Drogan ($500) plans on using her IFW award to assist with her doctoral dissertation research at the Legislative Archives, Washington, D.C. and the Mudd Library, Princeton, New Jersey. Ms. Drogan is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History and her dissertation is entitled, “Atoms for Peace, U.S. Foreign Policy, and the Globalization of Nuclear Technology, 1955-1960.”

Cecilia Ferradino
Cecilia Ferradino ($500) is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science. She will use her award for travel costs associated with her dissertation research project, “American Women Veterans, Institutions, and Identity.”

AeLy Park
AeLy Park ($500), a student at the School of Social Welfare’s doctoral program, will attend an ICPSR summer program for additional quantitative training. This instruction will allow her to utilize more sophisticated statistical modeling applications in her dissertation on intergenerational transmission of intimate partner violence.

Miseung Shim
Miseung Shim ($500) is a doctoral candidate at the School of Social Welfare. She will use the award for her travel costs to advance her dissertation research on the effects of organizational culture and climate on public child welfare workers’ retention.

Lei Wu
Lei Wu ($500) will use her IFW funding for project which is tentatively entitled, “Welfare Recipient’s Attitudes toward Their Employment Programs and factors Influencing Their Attitudes.”  Ms. Wu is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Social Welfare.

Award Winners 2008

Presidential Awards (5 at $1,000)

Jeanna Mastrocinque, a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice, will use this funding for travel costs related to her dissertation research. Ms. Mastrocinque’s research addresses crime victims’ experiences in the criminal justice system and strategies for forming better U.S. policing policy.  

Bonghee Oh is a doctoral student in the Department of English. Ms. Oh will use her award to further her doctoral work. Her studies focus on feminist theory and early modern female novelists; the current title of her proposed dissertation is “Homelessness and Strangeness: Orphans and Strangers as Critical Potentialities in Charlotte Lennox, Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Mary Shelley.”

Giza Rodick is currently a fourth-year doctoral student at the School of Criminal Justice. Her dissertation consists of an analytic interpretation of the legal framings of the Right-to-Die movement in the United States between 1906 and 2006. She will use her award to cover travel costs associated with data collection from aid-in-dying organizations located in Denver, CO and Portland, OR.

Jennifer Rosenthal  is pursuing a doctoral degree in Curriculum and Instruction in Science Education at the Department of Educational Theory and Practice. Her funding will support her enrollment in a summer institute entitled, “Discovering Communities: Students, Digital Media and Place-Based Learning.”

Melisa Kiyamu Tsuchiya is a biological anthology graduate student. She will use this award to pay for costs associated with her dissertation research, “Endurance Performance in Peruvian Quechua,” which will test the effects of development in hypoxia as it relates to endurance performance phenotypes of Peruvian Quechua at high altitude. 

Endowed Awards

Louise C. and Earl M. Applegate Award

Jessica Lambert ($700) is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Division of Counseling Psychology. Her award will be used for costs associated with attending a clinical training seminar in Emotion Focused Couples Therapy (EFT). EFT is an empirically supported model of therapy that has been found to be beneficial for couples where one or both partners have trauma history.

Lillian Barlow Award

Jeehon Kim ($1000) will receive funds to cover expenses for attending an advanced statistical course entitled “Latent Trajectory/Growth Curve Analysis,” offered by the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Ms. Kim is a doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare.

Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award ($900) 

Ruth Scipione ($700) will use her awardfor costs related to field work in Mexico. Her dissertation project, “Variation in Spanish and Triqui,” is a pioneering study of an indigenous bilingual community in Sonora, Mexico. Ms. Scipione is a Ph.D. candidate in Spanish Linguistics.

Gloria R. DeSole Fund

Ms. Gladys Santiago-Tosado ($1000) is a Senior Academic Counselor/Instructor in the University’s Educational Opportunity Program. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her award will help defray costs associated with her research, entitled “Learning Social Responsibility in Higher Education: The Experience of One Institution in Puerto Rico.”

Ford Foundation IFW Women in Science Fellowship

Elizabeth Conklin-Ballester ($1000) is a graduate student in the Department of Public Health. This award will help Ms. Conklin-Ballester support expenses related to HIV/AIDS work in the Dominican Republic where she also founded the non-for-profit Community Service Alliance, which helps channel resources to small communities. 

Jennifer Gillen ($1000) is working on Master’s degree in Geological Sciences. Her research focuses on vegetated or “green” roofs which is an emerging technology with the primary objective of retaining precipitation, thus reducing storm water runoff in urban areas and alleviating sewage overflow problems. Her funding will be used for laboratory analysis of samples.

Michelle M. Macaraig ($900) is a doctoral student in the School of Public Health, specializing in Epidemiology. Ms. Macaraig will be working for three months at the Department of Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS at the National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases in Tehran, Islamic Republic of Iran. Her Ford award will help cover travel and living expenses.

Judy L. Genshaft IFW Award

Caitlin McGuire Reid ($500) is the Assistant to the Chair for the Department of Biomedical Sciences and the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health. She is currently enrolled in the Masters of Science degree program in Higher Educational Administration. Her award will be used to attend the Higher Education Conference on Leadership at Drexel University.

Haynes-Davis Memorial Scholarship

Raenelle Love ($500) is an undergraduate seniorpursuing a dual major in Communications and Accounting. Ms. Love will use this award to assist with cost of purchasing textbooks.

Karen R. Hitchcock New Frontiers Fund 

Dana Basnight-Brown ($800) is a graduate student in the doctoral program in Cognitive Psychology. She will use this award to defray the costs of including experimental participants in her doctoral dissertation studies. Her work revolves around the ways in which bilinguals acquire and use their second language and how knowledge of a second language impinges on various representational and pragmatic qualities of the first.

Laura Bunyan ($500) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology. Her award will help her complete her dissertation studies. Her thesis entitled:” Modern Day Mary Poppins: Uncovering the Work of Nannies and the Expectations of Employers,” explores the work experience of live-in nannies and the relationships between these workers and their employers.

Teresa Dangwa ($700) is currently a fellow at the Center for Women in Government and Civil Service. She is working on a certificate in Nonprofit Management and Leadership. This award will help with her research initiatives in Zimbabwe where she will perform a needs assessment on the impact of AIDS on girls, widows and elderly women. 

Natalie Helbig ($500) is a program associate in the Center for Technology in Government and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Public Administration and Policy. This award will be used to purchase atlas.ti software for qualitative coding and analysis in her research.

Erica Hunter ($500) will use this funding to attend the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association to present a paper from her dissertation, “Courtship and the Process of Becoming Engaged.”

Ji Eun Lee ($600) is a Master’s student in the Division of Counseling Psychology, Department of Educational & Counseling Psychology. This scholarship will support travel and research expenses related to attending the 2008 International Counseling Psychology Conference. Her research is entitled, “Facilitating Adoptee Connection to Culture of Origin: The Content and Process for Adoptive Parents.”

Suzanne M. Levine ($500) is working towards a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction in Science and Mathematics at the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, School of Education. This award will enable Ms. Levine to purchase software for her dissertation analysis. In this study, she will perform a mixed methods textual analysis aimed at characterizing the differences between high school and college level science via a science content analysis of textbooks.

Alison Looby ($700) is a third-year doctoral student of clinical psychology with a focus on substance abusing populations. Her award will help cover travel and research expenses to attend this year’s College on Problems of Drug Dependence. Ms. Looby participated in the poster presentation with a session entitled, “Gender Moderates Stereotype Threat in Cannabis Users.”

Christina Muñiz de la Peña ($700) will use her award to present the results of a research project, entitled “Assessing ‘Split’ Alliances Using the System for Observing Family Therapy Alliances in Brief Conjoint Family Therapy,” at the 2008 International Conference of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. This paper will also be submitted for publication inPsychotherapy Research, theSociety for Psychotherapy Research’s international journal.

Jennifer A.L. Newman ($500) is a graduate student in the Department of Anthropology. Her research is an innovative study of Mayan ceramics, within which, she will explore vessel function using cutting-edge analytical techniques rather than stylistic aspects of the pieces. Her award provides funds to purchase camera equipment needed for a visual record of the vessels, since they cannot be removed from their source country.

Basak Ozgenc ($500) is a third-year graduate student in the Department of Sociology. Her award will be used to compensate interview participants in her study entitled, “Intersectionality in the Capital District: Immigrant Women’s Experiences of Race, Gender and Work.”

Kerrin S. Roy ($800) will apply her IFW award to data collection and analysis costs incurred by her dissertation research. Ms. Roy’s scholarly interests examine the social cognitive factors associated with the development of social justice interest and commitment.

Catherine Snyder ($500) is a doctoral student in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, School of Education. Her award will be used for research costs associated with her dissertation, “National Board Support Groups as an Arena for Teacher Transformation.” This study looks at the changes that take place in teachers who pursue National Board certification through formal support groups.

Katerina Tsakiri ($500) is studying the main atmospheric factor for the air pollution in Albany, New York by using principal component analysis. This award will allow Ms. Tsakiri to present the results of her research at the American Mathematical Statistical Conference.

Honoring Our Mothers Fund 

D’Andrea Brooks ($500) is a single mother of three small children. She works as an Education Specialist at the University’s Professional Development Program. Ms. Brooks is currently working on a Master of Science in Education and will apply her award to tuition costs.

Ileana Camelia Lenart ($1000) is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History. Ms. Lenart’s award supports the costs associated with presenting and publishing her research findings. This research supports the reception in Europe of Martha Graham, her company, and her modern choreography during the 1950s. Camelia has found that Europeans were rejecting not only an American challenge to established modes in dance but also a women’s assertion of equal standing in a cultural world virtually monopolized by men.

The Bernice Mosbey Peebles '39 Scholarship Award

Stephanie J. Burkes ($1000) will use her award for tuition and other expenses to pursue her Master’s degree in Curriculum Development and Instructional Technology at Empire State College. Ms. Burkes is currently an instructor in the Department of Computer Training Services for the Professional Development Program. In her application, she noted that she wants to continue teaching, “because I genuinely love teaching and am committed to motivating and encouraging students through my teaching/instruction.”

Initiatives For Women Endowment Award 

Gina Penly Hall ($600) is a Ph.D. student in the School of Criminal Justice where she is investigating the gap between the understanding of offender motivations and traditional explanations for the spatial distribution of crime. This award will help to cover travel expenses to attend the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology where she will be able to disseminate preliminary findings from her dissertation research.

Rachel S. Harris ($500) is an assistant professor of Hebrew Literature and Language in the Department of Judaic Studies. She will use this award to help defray the costs associated with her work on the Hebrew Resource Bank Pedagogy Project.

Jessica M. Nicklin ($500) is a student in the Ph.D. program in Industrial and Organizational Psychology. She has advanced to candidacy and is currently working on her dissertation which examines the self-regulation of task motivation and performance. Ms. Nicklin’s award will provide assistance with attending the annual meeting of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

Kelly O. Secovnie ($800) is a graduate student in the Department of English. This award will complement funding from a Fulbright-Hays fellowship in the Intensive Advanced Yorùbá Group Projects Abroad program. This experience will enhance her dissertation research entitled, “Translating the Transatlantic: West African Literary Approaches to African-American Identity.”

Gargi Shinde ($600) is an adjunct lecturer in the University’s Department of Theatre. This award helps her to defray costs of professional tools for and attendance at the Lincoln Center/Museum of Modern Art Film Festival for the premiere of her film, "Frozen River".  Ms. Shinde is an actress in this film.

General Awards

Corrina C. Duvall ($600) will be using her award to purchase the study package for the Professional Practice in Psychology produced by the Association for Advanced Training in the Behavioral Sciences. This will help her reach goals of completing her doctoral degree in School Psychology and becoming a licensed psychologist in the State of New York.

Award Winner 2007

Presidential Awards (5 at $1,000)

Erica Hutchins is a doctoral student in the Department of Biological Sciences. She will use her award to cover expenses of the First Pan American Congress in Developmental Biology. There she will present her research in a poster session:Drosophila Homer is required for retinal apoptosis.

Georgia Kioukis is a doctoral student in Educational Administration and Policy Studies. She will use her award to fund dissertation research on the implementation of No Child Left Behind's Supplemental Educational Services provision.

Ingrid Rodriguez is an advanced doctoral student in the Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology Program. She will use this award to fund conference attendance and participation in a symposium, Multicultural Training Needs and Experiences of Doctoral Students: Does One Size Fit All?, and to present a paper on cultural, personal, and workplace variables that affect Puerto Rican women.

April Roggio is an advanced doctoral student in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. She will use this award to fund coursework. Her research focuses on the system dynamics field of study and links community sustainability with the use of advanced statistical tools.

Natalya Topilina is a doctoral student in the Department of Chemistry. To advance her biochemical research, she will use the award to defray the costs of attendance and participation at the annual meeting of the Protein Society.

Endowed Awards

Louise C. and Earl M. Applegate Award ($1000)

Karen Himmelfarb is a graduate student in the Department of Geography and Planning. She will present a paper on the social justice implications of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. This award will help fund her travel and expenses to the Second Global Conference on Economic Geography in Beijing, China.

Lillian Barlow Award ($800)

Laura Chestnut is a graduate student seeking a dual Master's degree in Special Education and Literacy plus multiple teaching certifications. She will use this award for travel costs during her internship in an Albany area school.

Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award ($900) 

Karen Tejada, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology, will use her award for her dissertation project on Salvadoran political organizations in Washington, D.C. This funding will defray the travel and research costs.

Gloria R. DeSole Fund ($600)

Crystal Campbell is pursuing her Master’s degree in the Department of Africana Studies. She will use this award for travel costs to present her research at the Annual National Council of Black Studies. Her paper is titled, Sculpting a Pan-African Culture in the Art of Negritude: A Model for African Artists.

Anne Gustin Scholarship for Women in Law and Government ($900) 

Christina Miller is a graduate student working toward a Graduate Certificate in Public Management/Public Policy at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. She will use her award to cover tuition expenses.

Ford Foundation IFW Women in Science Fellowship ($1100) 

Asanté Shipp-Hilts, a graduate student in the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, will use her award for travel costs for her Master's field placement in Haiti. Her research on Haitian female sex workers focuses on data collection and analysis procedures for the Foundation for Reproductive Health and Family Education.

Haynes-Davis Memorial Scholarship ($900)

Millah Musungu is an international doctoral student in Education Psychology with a focus on Research and Evaluation. This award will help her defray costs to support her scholarship.

Karen R. Hitchcock New Frontiers Fund 

Laura Deihl ($2000) is a doctoral student in the Department of Education & Counseling Psychology. She will use the award to support her dissertation research on the work experiences of residential counseling paraprofessionals.

Minjeong Kim ($1900) is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology. Her dissertation relates to Filipina international marriage migrants in South Korean rural communities. She will use her funding for transcription costs related to her research.

Melisa Kiyamu Tsuchiya ($2000) is an international doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology. She will use this award to finance the travel and program costs of a summer anthropology expedition. This is related to the study of high altitude populations in Spiti, a Tibetan borderland.

Rene Wilson ($1500) is currently working on a doctoral degree in Education Administration in the Department of Education Administration and Policy Studies. She will use her award to defray travel and research expenses. Her research focus is understanding parents and teachers perceptions of parent involvement in students' education.

Honoring Our Mothers Fund ($1000) 

Candi Griffin is the Director of the Liberty Partnerships Rising Stars Program on the downtown campus. She will use this award to enroll in a GRE preparation course to begin her work toward a Ph.D. in psychology.

Initiatives For Women Endowment Award 

Christy Duffy-Paiement ($800) is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Educational & Counseling Psychology. She will use her award to fund research costs related to her work on eating disorders and the role of athletics in self-esteem and self-confidence in females.

Zara St. Croix ($1100) is a graduate student in the Department of Health Policy Management and Behavior. She will use her award to make a video for Haitian populations vulnerable to HIV. This is to introduce programs and services available from the Foundation for Reproductive Health and Family Education.

Yumi Suzuki ($1900) is a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice. This award will help fund a graduate certificate course on victimology and victim assistance at the Tokiwa International Victimology Institute in Japan. Her research interest is female sexual victimization and treatment in the criminal justice system.

The Susan Van Horn-Shipherd '64 Women in Science Scholarship ($1000)

Halimah Mohamed-Mohamed Jorge is currently working on her Ph.D. in the Department of Chemistry. Her research is in tuberculosis. She will use her award to attend the 47th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Women in Technology ($500) 

Alexis Wichowski is a first-year doctoral student in the Informatics Department of the College of Computing and Information. Her research relates to technology and political deliberation in groups. She will use her award to help defray costs related to her research.

Special Awards

Secretarial/Clerical Council Award ($700) 

Gale Butler is a staff member in the Office of Academic Support Services and an undergraduate student with Sociology as her major. This award will help defray educational expenses.

General Awards

Jessica Martin ($1000) is a doctoral student in Counseling Psychology. She will present her research on alchohol-related addictive behaviors at a Scientific Conference on Counseling Psychology at the Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. She will use her award for travel costs associated with attending this conference.

Orpha Ongiti ($1000) is an international doctoral student in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies. She will use her award to fund research expenses related to her investigation on policies and practices to increase female participation in doctoral level mathematical sciences.

Rachel Rappaport ($500) is a first-year graduate student in the Department of Political Science. She will use her award to support her research in a comparison of the likelihood of violence of Tamil versus Palestinian minorities in Asia and the Middle East respectively.

Award Winners 2006

Presidential Awards (5 at $1,000)

Yuhui Chen is a full-time doctoral student in the Information Science Program at the College of Computing and Information. She will use her award to fund attendance at the three-day Jacob Nielsen Usability in Practice workshop.

Christine Englebrecht is a PhD. Student in the School of Criminal Justice. She will use her award to fund dissertation research. Her study analyzes victim participation in the criminal justice system.

Ryang Hui Kim is a graduate student in the School of Criminal Justice. Her research focuses on gender differences in the development of delinquent behavior. Her award will cover expenses to attend the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology where she will present her research paper.

JoAnne Malatesta is an advanced doctoral student working on a dissertation study that focuses on Internet use patterns among sex offenders. IFW funds will help support attendance at the summer program of the Michigan University Institute for Social Research.

Triparna Vasavada is a doctoral student in the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. She will present two papers at the International Society of Third Sector Research entitled Partnership Between Government and the Third Sector for Disaster Response in India: Lessons to Learn and Navigating the dynamics of Cross-sector Partnership: A Gender-based Analysis. Her award will cover conference-related expenses.

Endowed Awards

Louise C. and Earl M. Applegate Award ($900)
Mary Van Ullen is the Business Bibliographer at the University Libraries. She team teaches China in the Post-Utopian Age in the Department of Geography and Planning. She will use this award to help defray travel costs for a student study tour to the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta regions of China.

Lillian Barlow Award ($500)
Charmaine Cadeau is a poet and scholar working on a Ph.D. in English. Her award will be used to defer costs for the annual Associated Writing Program Conference.

Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award ($500) 
Maria Lopez, a doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare, will use her award for dissertation research expenses. Her study involves a comprehensive community assessment to identify diabetes-specific behaviors among a sample population of underprivileged Latinos in Amsterdam, New York.

Gloria R. DeSole Fund ($500)
Judith Torel is a graduate student in the Department of Cultural Anthropology. She will use this award to conduct preliminary research for her dissertation on contemporary Americans, exercise, and spirituality.

Ford Foundation IFW Women in Science Fellowship
Sohini Bose ($700) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences. Funds from this award will cover covers associated with her poster presentation at the 2006 Yeast Genetics and Molecular Biology Meeting at Princeton University.

Cassandra Kelly ($1000), a graduate student in the Department of Biomedical Sciences, will use her award for research-based expenses. Her project, entitled Generation and Characterization of Unique Antibodies Specific for Anthrax Toxins, evaluates therapeutics against anthrax intoxication.

Jennifer Lind ($500) is working on a Masters in the Forensic Molecular Biology program. Ms. Lind will use this award to fund costs associated with a summer internship in which she will research mini short tandem repeats and single nucleotide repeat utilities in analyzing degraded samples.

Grace Ngugi ($500) has just completed her first year of graduate work with the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. She is interested in reproductive heath and will use her award to fund coursework and supplies.

Jessica Werder ($900) is a graduate student in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior. She will apply her award to costs associated with completing an internship at the National Women's Health Network in Washington, D.C.

Judy L. Genshaft IFW Award ($1000)
Gladys Santiago-Tosado is a Senior Academic Advisor/Instructor for the University's Office of Academic Support Services. She will use this award to support dissertation research on the learning of social responsibility at Puerto Rican universities.

Haynes-Davis Memorial Scholarship ($900)
Norma Malfatti is a graduate student at the Nelson A. Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy. Her concentration is in welfare policy, nonprofit and public policy, and civic engagement. This award will help her defray summer education expenses.

Karen R. Hitchcock New Frontiers Fund 
Xiaolei Chen ($1000) is a second year Ph.D. student in Public Administration and will use her award to cover research costs. Her study, entitled Beyond the Snail: Understanding the Pace of Women's Progress as State Policy Leaders, investigates the factors contributing to the under representation of women as state policy leaders.

Ying Du ($500) is a fourth year doctoral student in Educational Psychology and Methodology. She will use this award to support her dissertation project entitled, Assessing Students with Limited English Proficiency: The Validity of the Language Assessment Battery-revised (LAB-R).

Nina Esaki ($500) is enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the School of Social Welfare. Her award will cover costs associated with her dissertation which investigates Rapid Repeat Births (RRB) among women at risk of child maltreatment.

Kristin Harris ($700) is currently working on a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology. She will use her award to fund research costs. In her proposed study she examines decision making strategies.

Deneen Hatmaker ($600) is a Ph.D. student in the School of Public Administration and Policy. Her award will support travel costs associated with her doctoral work, which examines how interpersonal interactions influence the way women view themselves within engineering.

Thely Lopes ($600) is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Her award will fund expenses to present her research, Shifting Identities in Brazilian Restaurants in New York City, at the 2006 Latin American Studies Association Congress.

Na'ama Nagar ($800) is a doctoral student in the Department of Political Science. Her award will be used to purchase an extensive dataset on terrorist acts and organizations from Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Center.

Jessica Nicklin ($500) is a doctoral student in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Ms. Nicklin will use this award for travel expenses and registration to attend the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychologists 21 st Annual Conference.

Xiaolei Wang ($700) is a doctoral candidate in Educational Psychology and Methodology. She will use her award for research expenses associated with her dissertation research on gender identity and interpersonal problem solving.

Yue Zhou ($700) is a third-year doctoral student in the Department of Sociology. She will present two research papers,Predictors of Old-age Support Attitudes in Rural China and Migration and the Well-being of the Elderly in Rural China, at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America. Her award will support travel and conference registration costs.

Honoring Our Mothers Fund ($600) 
Susanne Stein is a doctoral student in the Department of History, with a concentration in African history. She will use this award to fund coursework in learning French which she will need for her research. She is investigating North African women and divorce policies.

Initiatives For Women Endowment Award 
Amy Hart ($1000) is the producer/director of broadcast programs at the School of Public Health . This award will fund costs associated with producing a documentary, Water First. This project will be filmed in Africa and address global water issues.

Dr. Patricia de Santana Pinho ($500) is a faculty member of the Department of Latin American, Caribbean and U.S. Latino Studies. Her award will be used for translating her book, Reinventions of Africa in Bahia, from Portuguese to English.

Shirley J. Jones Opportunity Fund ($700) 
Krista Damann is a Counseling Psychology graduate student working on her dissertation entitled, The Relationship Between Multiracial Identity and Psychological Variables. Her award will fund research materials and Web site design instruction.

Physicians' Endowment Fund for Initiatives For Women ($500) 
Rose Destin is undergraduate majoring in biology. After she completes her bachelor’s degree, she will attend medical school to become a gynecologist. Ms. Destin will use this award to cover costs for the Medical College Admissions Test and the American Medical College processing fee.

The Susan Van Horn-Shipherd '64 Women in Science Scholarship ($700) 
Vynessa Gilbertson is an undergraduate student majoring in Biology. Her award will help to fulfill an independent undergraduate research project with Dr. Rabi Musah and Denise McKeon.

The Women in Technology Award ($500) 
Celia Rouse is a graduate student in Information Studies at the College of Computing and Information. She will use her award for living expenses while completing an internship program at the New York State Department of Tax and Finance.

Special Awards

Secretarial/Clerical Council Award ($700) 
Madelyn Seidou-Bakari is an Administrative Assistant for the Liberty Partnerships Rising Stars Program, Center for Women in Government & Civil Society. She is a returning student at Hudson Valley Community College, where she is working on an A.S. degree in Individual Studies. Her award will help to defray childcare costs while she is attending classes.

General Awards

Sharla Aiken ($300) is pursuing a Master of Business Administration with a concentration in Human Resource Information Systems. She will use her award to cover the cost of the Professional in Human Resources Certification Examination.

Heidi Borofsky ($500) is currently completing a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and will pursue a Masters Degree in Guidance and Counseling. Her award will support costs associated with books and other educational materials.

Eileen Bosso ($500) is currently working on a Masters in Public Health with a concentration on epidemiology. She will use her award for costs incurred for an internship in the Kenyan Parliament, with an emphasis on studying HIV/AIDS legislation.

Martha McCaffrey ($800) is working on a dual Masters in Special Education and Literacy. Ms. McCaffrey will use this award to defray costs of childcare while completing an internship.

Kelly Maynes ($500) is an undergraduate majoring in psychology. She will use her IFW award to attend GRE preparation classes. Her goals include earning a Masters and PhD in Clinical Psychology.

Jennifer Ann Newman ($500) is a working towards a Ph.D. in Anthropology. Her scholarly interests are in ancient Maya of Mesoamerica with a focus on ceramics, artwork, and writing. IFW funding will help Ms. Newman defray costs associated with a research site visit to Blue Creek, Belize.

Ana Maria Perez Paulino ($500) is an undergraduate student majoring in anthropology. Her plans include study abroad to Spain. She will use this award to fund registration and travel expenses.

Barbara Rio ($700) is the Assistant Chair of Undergraduate Program/Director of Undergraduate Field Education in the School of Social Welfare. Her award will be used for travel expenses on a student service learning trip to Rwanda.

Linda Spokane ($600) is a graduate student in the Department of Health Policy, Management and Behavior. This award supports research costs associated with falls prevention among older adults.

Rebecca Swenson ($500) is a doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology. This award supports her research initiative, women’s sexually-related behaviors emerging during adulthood.

Kim Williams ($600) is a very involved undergraduate majoring in Biology. She will uses her award help defray academic expenses.

Award Winners 2005

Presidential Awards (5 at $1,000)

Tricia Barbagallo
Tricia Barbagallo is pursuing a doctoral degree from the Department of History. She will use this award for costs associated with her research on paupers in colonial Albany, New York.

Elizabeth K. Brown
Elizabeth K. Brown, a doctoral candidate in the School of Criminal Justice, will use this award to fund dissertation research materials, including books and computer software. Her thesis focuses on public opinion and the politics of crime control in New York.

Carmen Caamaño
P.h.D student, Carmen Caamaño will use this award to cover research costs associated with her dissertation, "Contending Subjectivities: Costa Rican Migrants Solidarity Networks, Social Capital and the Construction of Governmentality in Transnational Spaces."

Tiffany Fuse
A Ph.D. student in Clinical Psychology, Tiffany Fuse, will use this award to support research costs associated with her dissertation, "Psychophysiological Response to Sexual Assault Related Imagery in Sexual Assault Survivors With and Without a History of Tonic Immobility."

Katerina Passa
Katerina Passa, a doctoral student in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, will use this award to fund research costs for her dissertation, "Research on Using Propensity Score Methods to assess Social and Behavioral Effects of Character Education Programs: A Middle School Application." 

Endowed Awards

Louise C. and Earl M. Applegate Award ($1000)
Kristen Dams-O'Connor
A Ph.D. student in Counseling Psychology, Kristen Dams-O’Connor will use this award to cover the cost of tuition for Spanish language classes for mental health professionals and other costs associated with attending an immersion program in Guatemala.

Lillian Barlow Award ($500)
Kathleen A. McDonald
A Ph.D. candidate in English, Kathleen A. McDonald will use this award to fund travel costs to the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston to complete her dissertation research.

Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award ($500) plus $300 in general funds
Liz Espinoza
Liz Espinoza, a graduate student in Latin American and Caribbean Studies will use this award to cover research costs associated with her Master’s thesis on transnational Peruvian migration.

Gloria R. DeSole Fund ($1000)
Monette Fils
Monette Fils, a graduate student in the Department of Educational Administration and Policy Studies' Certificate of Advanced Study program, Ms. Fils will use this award to fund research costs associated with her thesis on the politics of education in Haiti.

Ford Foundation IFW Women in Science Fellowship
Elizabeth Albert --$500
A Master's degree student in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Elizabeth Albert is working on a thesis entitled, "Depleted Uranium in Sediments of Patroon Reservoir: Solid Phase Speciation and Implications for Uranium Transport Processes." She will use this award to purchase polishing materials and for the use of the RPI microprobe.

Jessica Blair -- $700
Jessica Blair, a graduate student enrolled in the Forensic Molecular Biology program, will use this award to cover costs associated with attending the annual forensic sciences conference in New Orleans.

Jamie Hoey -- $700
Jaime Hoey, a graduate student in Forensic Molecular Biology will use this award for travel costs associated with the annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences in New Orleans.

Amanda Keller -- $700
Amanda L. Keller is working on a Masters in the Forensic Molecular Biology program. Ms. Keller will use this award to fund costs associated with attending the annual conference of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Maria Orsino --$700
Maria Orsino, a graduate student on the Department of Biological Sciences, will use this award to cover costs related to attending a conference entitled, “21st Century Crime- 21st Century Forensic Science.”

Samantha Walters --$700
Samantha Walters, a student in the Masters of Science program in Forensic Molecular Biology, will use this award to fund costs associated with attending the 57th annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.

Judy L. Genshaft IFW Award ($500)
Joy D. Ewing
A university employee, Ms. Ewing will use this award to cover tuition costs associated with completing a Master of Science degree in Educational Administration and Policy Studies.

Haynes-Davis Memorial Scholarship ($700)
Latasha Cardona
Latasha Cardona is working towards a Bachelor's degree in Business, with a concentration in Accounting. She will use this award to help defray the costs of a laptop.

Karen R. Hitchcock New Frontiers Fund (2 @ $1,000)
Lisa Sacco
Lisa Sacco, a Ph.D. student in the School of Criminal Justice, will use this award to support her dissertation project “Counterterrorism Policy and Practice: What Has Changed Since 2001 and Understanding the Relationship Between Risk Assessment and Preparedness.”

Maria Tcherni
Maria Tcherni, a first year Ph.D. student in the School of Criminal Justice, is researching cultural and deterrent effects of domestic violence laws in the United States. She will use this award to cover living and child care expenses.

Honoring Our Mothers Fund
Corrina C. Duvall --$500
Corrina C. Duvall, a fourth year doctoral student interested in equity for women and students from ethnic and linguistic minority backgrounds, will use this award to cover child care services.

Diane Lynn Gusa -- $925
A doctoral student in Curriculum and Education, will use this award to purchase software, equipment, and research travel for her research, “The Experiential Actuality of Place and Its Influences on Women’s Persistence: Overcoming the Barriers of Poverty.”

Initiatives For Women Endowment Award ($900) 
Nan Mullenneaux
Nan Mullenneaux, a Ph.D. candidate in American History, will use this award to fund travel and equipment costs associated with her dissertation research, “Walking Ladies: The Development of Identity, Agency, and Community in Antebellum American Women in the Arts.”

Physicians' Endowment Fund for Initiatives For Women ($700) plus $900 in general funds
Asanté Shipp-Hilts
Asanté Shipp-Hilts, an undergraduate student majoring in human biology, will use this award to fund costs associated with attending an eight-week MCAT preparation course.

Special Awards

The IFW Fine Art Scholarship Award ($400)
La'Trice Ewing
Art major, La’Trice Ewing, will use this award to purchase photography equipment needed to create a portfolio for admission to graduate school.

Secretarial/Clerical Council Award ($500) plus $350 in general funds
D'Andrea L. Brooks
D'Andrea L. Brooks, an Administrative Assistant for the Computer Training Services unit of the Professional Development Program at Rockefeller College, is pursuing a Bachelor of Science degree from Empire State College. She will use this award to cover costs associated with attending a Women's Studies Residency. 

General Awards

H. Catherine Bailey --$600
H. Catherine Bailey is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Criminal Justice. Her award will be used to cover research costs associated with a survey of corrections policy interest groups in New York State and to attend the 2005 American Society of Criminology Conference.

Marie L. Balfour --$500
A doctoral candidate in the School of Criminal Justice, Marie L. Balfour will use this award to purchase research materials on the evolution of the Japanese Yakuza's (mafia) cultural image over the later half of the 20th Century.

Kerri Clancy --$700
A junior in the School of Business, Kerri Clancy will use this award to fund an LSAT review course. This will bring her closer to fulfilling her dream of becoming a lawyer.

Sheila Gaddy -- $770
Sheila M. Gaddy, a returning undergraduate student in Africana Studies, will use this award to cover the cost of books and fees related to her pursuit of a Bachelor’s degree.

Ellen Hauschen --$1000
Ellen Hauschen, a Criminal Justice major, will use this award to help defray tuition costs related to attending summer school classes.

Carrie Hong -- $500
A doctoral student in the Department of Reading, Carrie E. Hong, will use this award to cover travel costs and conference registration fees to present relevant papers on her dissertation research entitled, “Learning Other Cultures’ Ways of Knowing: Literacy and Subjectivity in an ESL Classroom.”

Catherine Mosher -- $500
A doctoral student in Clinical Psychology, Catherine Mosher will use this award to fund research costs associated with her dissertation which addresses discriminatory attitudes toward women with cancer.

Stephanie Pleasure -- $710
An undergraduate student majoring in Business Management and Communications, Stephanie will use this award for books and other costs related to her pursuit of a Bachelor’s degree.

Crystal Rion -- $610
Crystal Rion, a Ph.D. student in the Educational Administration and Policy Studies Department, will use this award to fund travel costs to attend the annual Association for the Study of Higher Education conference this fall.

Crystal Rogers --$900
A doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare, Crystal Rogers, will use this award for her dissertation research which focuses on the stress and coping of pregnant women with Sickle Cell Disease.

Natalie Jay-Short --$500
Natalie Jay-Short, an undergraduate working towards a Bachelor's degree in Community and Human Services, will use this award to cover costs to attend a course entitled “International Treatment of Women of Color in Criminal Justice.”

Jessica Strolin --$1000
Jessica Strolin, a doctoral student in the School of Social Welfare, will use this award to cover costs associated with attending ICPSR summer quantitative methodology workshops.

Justine Tedesco -- $500
A Master’s degree student in the School of Social Welfare, Justine Tedesco will use this award to purchase Open Book scanning software and other assistance technology.

Katherine Turner -- $1000
Katherine Turner is an undergraduate majoring in psychology. Ms. Turner will use this award for books and other costs related to her pursuit of a Bachelor’s degree.

Myla Valor -- $1000
Myla Valor, a doctoral student in the School of Criminal Justice, is currently working on her comprehensive exams focusing on the evolution and impact of sex offender and registration laws. She will use this award to defray costs associated with acquiring a laptop and software.

Evelyn Williams -- $500
Evelyn Williams, a Ph.D. student in the School of Social Welfare, will use this award to fund research to complete her doctoral work. The study she is undertaking examines the influences of identity and career choice on the professionalization experiences of African American, social welfare graduate students.

Rachel Zitomer --$500
A doctoral candidate in the English Department, Rachel Zitomer, will use this award to fund registration costs to attend the International Women’s Writing Guild summer conference. 

Award Winners 2004

Presidential Awards (2 at $2,500)

Debernee Pugh
A Ph.D. candidate and graduate student in Criminal Justice, Debernee Pugh will use this award to cover the cost of equipment, supplies and conference fees associated with her research on sexual victimization and incarceration experiences among adult male inmates.

Ilene Rutten
Ilene Redlin Rutten's dissertation research in the Reading Department will focus on preparing educators who will teach in urban elementary schools. She will use this award for research and preparation costs.

Endowed Awards

Louise C. And Earl M. Applegate Award ($500) plus $1,000 in general funds
Ana Ameal
Ana Ameal, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures will use this award to support her dissertation project “Framing Intimacy in Service Interactions,” an analysis of the evolution of support bonds between a seamstress and her female clients.

Lillian Barlow Award ($500) plus $250 in general funds
Maryna Bazlevych
Maryna Bazlevych, a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, will use this award for travel and computer expenses that will further her efforts to conduct on-site dissertation research on changing gender roles in the Ukraine.

Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award ($500) plus $500 in general funds
Triparna Vasavada
Triparna Vasavada, a Ph.D. student and teaching assistant in Public Administration, will use this award to support her dissertation research on gender and the dynamics of cross-sector partnerships. Her project has potential implications for women’s leadership in Indian non-governmental organizations.

Gloria R. DeSole Fund for IFW ($1,000)
Edwina Smith
Edwina Wokie Smith a third year student in Communications will use this award to defray the cost of tuition books and fees associated with her pursuit of a Bachelor’s degree.

Ford Foundation IFW Women in Science Fellowship ($1,000)
Elizabeth Albert
Elizabeth Albert, a graduate student in Geology, will use this award for an Electron Microbe Training Course and use of RPI’s Electron Microprobe.

Judy L. Genshaft IFW Award ($500)
Christina Sebastian
Christina Sebastian, Director of Development for the School of Education will use this award to attend a CASE conference on major gift cultivation and solicitation, an important professional development opportunity that will also benefit the University’s development efforts.

Anne Gustin Scholarship for Women in Law and Government ($1000)
Min Xie
A Ph.D. candidate in the School of Criminal Justice, Min Xie will use this award for a week long training seminar at the Survey Research Center in Michigan. The seminar will further her efforts to research barriers to reporting domestic abuse among women victims.

Haynes-Davis Memorial Scholarship ($1,000)
Alfrieda Walker
Sociology major Alfrieda Walker will use this award for books and other costs related to her pursuit of a Bachelor’s degree.

Honoring Our Mothers Fund ($500) plus $500 in general funds
Yinxia Cao
Yinxia Cao, a Ph.D. candidate in Educational Administration and Policy Studies and a Master's student in the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, will use this award for costs related to her dissertation and thesis research on graduate employment in China.

Initiatives For Women Endowment Award ($500) plus $500 in general funds
Xiaolei Chen
Xiaolei Chen, a graduate student in Latin American and Caribbean Studies will use this award to cover the cost of on-site research on manquiladora networks and women’s labor migration in Mexico.

Shirley J. Jones Opportunity Fund ($500) plus $250 in general funds
Selket Lewis
Selket Lewis, a Master’s/ Ph.D. candidate in Counseling Psychology will use this award to cover the costs of preparing for her upcoming Alcohol Substance Abuse Counselor Exam.

Named Awards

Secretarial/Clerical Council Award ($500)
Dee Dee Mrak
Dee Dee Mrak, a part-time graduate student of Science in Information Science and a library employee will use this award to cover some of the tuition costs of her enrollment in the library program.

General Awards

Dana Basnight-Brown --$1,000
Dana Basnight-Brown, a graduate student in the Department of Psychology's Cognitive Psychology program, will use this award to compensate participants in her study of bi-lingual memory.

Jennifer Bryant--$750
Jennifer Bryant, a Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice, will use this award to cover travel costs associated with her dissertation research on border vigilantism in the American South West.

Angie Chung--$1,000
A faculty member in Sociology, Angie Chung will use this award to fund a pilot research study on marriage, family and culture among sons and daughters in Asian immigrant families. The award will cover travel costs.

Paula Costello--$700
Paula Costello, a Ph.D. student in the School of Education, will use this award to support her participation in the Critical Discourse Analysis Conference at Indiana University. She will also present a paper on the subject of social identification and child development.

Kelly Delos--$1,000
Undergraduate Accounting major Kelly Delos will use this award for computer equipment that will be essential to her successful completion of the Accounting program. She hopes to eventually pursue a Mater’s degree in the field of Forensic Accounting.

Susanne Diamond--$1,000
Susanne Diamond, a graduate student in Women’s Studies will use this award for travel and Internet resources related to her pursuit of a Master’s Degree. The student faces a challenging commute, and this funding will allow her to remain in the program on a full-time basis.

Ellen Donovan--$1,000
Ellen Donovan, a member of the University’s Corporate and Foundation Relations Office, will use this award to attend a CASE conference in San Francisco, California that will address topics in the field of Corporate and Foundation Relations.

Christine Franco--$500
Christine Franco, a Master's student in the College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Psychology, Clinical Psychology program, will use this award for travel and other costs related to her thesis research on the effects of gambling on the female heart rate and stress levels.

Theresa Gecewicz--$1,000
Theresa Gecewicz, a senior majoring in Spanish and Social Welfare, will use this award to attend a language study in Ecuador . She hopes to apply what she learns to her Human Service studies.

Shari Goldberg--$600
Shari Goldberg a Ph.D. candidate in English, will use this award to hire an instructor for a specialized course that takes a collaborative approach to reading and comprehending German from primary source texts. This course will enhance her dissertation research in the area of Feminist Studies.

Ashley Heilmann--$600
Ashley Heilmann, an undergraduate student majoring in Linguistics and Communication will use this award to for a project that compared the speech patterns of male athletes to those of female athletes. The study will involve an audio workshop and data collection and may lead to new theories concerning language use and gender.

Abbe Herzig--$1,000
Abbe Herzig, an Assistant Professor in Educational Theory and Practice, with use this award to fund travel expenses related to her project “Facilitating the Success of Women and Students of Color in Graduate Mathematics.” Her award will also cover the costs of collecting data through focus groups conducted at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Marlene Lee--$1,500
Marlene Lee, a doctoral and Master’s candidate in Clinical Psychology will use this award to cover the research costs for her dissertation on gender differences in gambling, entitled “Games People Play.” Through her research, she hopes to advance the current understanding of gambling addiction, particularly among women.

Carolyn Levy--$1,500
Carolyn Levy a Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice, will use this award to support her research for her dissertation on the involuntary dropping of students from high schools. The award will cover the cost of primary investigation, including a mail survey.

Faryal Mehtab--$1,000
Faryal Mehtab, a Master’s candidate in Educational Psychology will use this award to pay tuition for two summer classes that will advance her plans for a degree.

Millah Musungu--$1,000
Millah Musungu, a second year Master’s candidate in the Educational Psychology program will use this award to cover tuition for her last semester in the program.

Leigh Nakama--$1,500
Leigh Nakama, a Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice will use this award to fund her comprehensive research project on school violence.

Orpha Ongiti--$1,200
Orpha Kemunto Ongiti, a Ph.D. student in Educational Administration and Policy Studies, will use this award to purchase a laptop, printer and textbooks, to be used in her dissertation research on gender equity in technical and vocational training in higher education.

Lauren Parr-Campola--$1,000
Lauren Parr-Campola, a Master’s student in History, will use this award to pay a portion of the travel and tuition costs associated with her internship at the Kentucky Historical Society.

Cheryl Savini--$500
Cheryl Savini, a staff member from the Office of Sponsored Programs, will use this award to defray the costs of registration and tuition for two classes toward a Bachelor’s degree.

Marianne Simon--$500
Marianne Simon, a graduate student and Ph.D. candidate in Educational and Counseling Psychology will use this award to cover the costs of research and surveys conducted in conjunction with her dissertation on “The Classification of the Emotionally Disturbed Within Schools.”

Amy Smith--$750
Amy Smith, a Ph.D. student in Public Administration and Policy will use this award to cover travel costs associated with her dissertation research on misconduct in the U.S. Securities industry.

Renee Sturm--$500
Renee C. Sturm, a graduate student in Public Affairs and Policy will use this award to help defray the costs of tuition and books associated with her pursuit of a Master’s degree in Public Policy.

Lisa V. Trubitt--$750
Lisa Trubitt, Assistant to the Chief Information Officer for Policy and Communications, Assistant Director of Extended Learning and Ph. D. candidate in the Criminal Justice Program, will use this award to cover the costs of a software package and training seminar that will greatly enhance her dissertation work.

Jessica Zacher--$500
Jessica Zacher, a graduate student in the Master of Science in Information Science and Policy will use this award for living expenses associated with her Summer internship at the Museum of Natural History and attendance at the annual SAA Conference.

Award Winners 2003

Presidential Awards (2 at $2,500) 

Jennifer Hays
A Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, Jennifer Hays is researching the impact of formal education on the San people of South Africa. Ms. Hays will use this award for on-site childcare for her infant daughter, for travel to the field site, and for books and photocopying.

Tamara L. Smith
A Ph.D. student in Sociology, Tamara Smith will use this award to defray participant recruitment and participation expenses, and transcribing costs. Her dissertation research focuses on the role of adult granddaughters in caring for frail grandparents.

Endowed Awards 

Louise C. and Earl M. Applegate Award ($500)
Catherine E. Mosher
A doctoral candidate in Psychology, Catherine Mosher focuses her thesis on the psychological adjustment of adult children of women with breast cancer. She will use this award towards administrative expenses associated with participant research.

Lillian Barlow Award ($500) plus $500 in general funds
Lorraine I. Hogan
Lorraine Hogan’s Ph.D. dissertation research in Criminal Justice is on parent/caregiver participation in juvenile treatment services. She will use this award for transcription services for audio taped interviews with parents of youths in residential treatment.

Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award ($500)
Carmen Caamaño 
Carmen Caamaño’s Ph.D. dissertation in Latin American and Caribbean Studies will focus on cultural changes and labor migration of Costa Ricans to the United States. She will use this award to meet travel and equipment needs.

Gloria R. DeSole Fund for IFW ($1,000)
Tisha Y. Lewis
Tisha Lewis is a Ph.D. student in the School of Education Reading Department, pursuing research in a family literacy project using computer technology. She will use this award for equipment expenses.

Judy L. Genshaft Fund for IFW Scholarship ($600) plus $400 in general funds
Chisato Tada
Chisato Tada is a professional staff member in the International Education Office of International Student Services. She will use this award towards attendance at NAFSA, the national professional conference for international educators.

Haynes-Davis Memorial Scholarship ($500) plus $500 in general funds
Susan Brent
A single parent in her senior year pursuing a bachelor’s degree, Susan Brent will use this award to defray tuition and living expenses for her final semester.

Honoring Our Mother Award ($500) plus $300 in general funds
Cara Richards
Cara Richards is a first-year Masters of Public Policy student concentrating on the development of countries with conflict, focusing on comparing the USAID programs in Serbia, Georgia and Kazakhstan. She will use this grant for supplies, transportation and childcare.

Initiatives for Women Endowment Award ($500) plus $500 in general funds
Maia Boswell
An assistant professor in Women’s Studies, Maia Boswell is researching and writing a book on the environmental contamination of breast milk. She will use this award towards childcare cost to allow her to continue her work during the summer months.

Shirley J. Jones Opportunity Award ($500) plus $500 in general funds
Sherida Lavell Johnson
A Ph.D. graduate student in Chemistry, Sherida Lavell Johnson will use this award to defray research expenses for her study of total synthesis of the natural product lentinic acid isolated from the shiitake mushroom.

Bernice Mosbey Peebles ’39 Scholarship Award ($1,000)
Jennifer Jeffers
Jennifer Jeffers is pursuing a BA in History and Art, and plans to get a masters degree in teaching. She will use this award to buy books and supplies, and to pay for daycare costs.

Susan Van Horn-Shipherd ’64 Women in Science Scholarship ($500) plus the Physician's Endowment Award ($200)
Aura Melissa Urquia
Aura Melissa Urquia is a pre-health undergraduate student. She will use this award towards the cost of tuition, fees and the MCAT exam to prepare her for medical school.

Named Awards

IFW Fine Art Award ($550)
LaTrice C. Ewing
A first-year Art student, LaTrice Ewing will use this award to purchase a computer to help her in her studies.

David and Gladys Groudine Award ($250) plus $250 in general funds
Brenda N. Shannon
A Ph.D. student in the department of Educational Administration & Policy Studies, Brenda Shannon’s dissertation research focuses on factors that influence successful academic and educational outcomes for African Americans. She will use this award to defray costs of tuition and research.

Secretarial-Clerical Council IFW Award ($500) plus $500 in general funds
D’Andrea Brooks
On the faculty for the Research Foundation of UAlbany, and a matriculated student at Empire State College, D’Andrea Brooks will use this grant for childcare costs to enable her to attend summer classes.

Women and Technology Award ($500) plus $500 in general funds
Katherine E. Caiazza
Katherine Caiazza is a graduate student pursuing a dual degree in History and Information Science and Policy. She is the graduate editorial assistant for American Archivist. She will use this award for registration and travel expenses for professional workshops in digitization and mark-up languages.

General Awards

Gina M. Aguayo--$500
A Ph.D. student in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, Gina Aguayo is working on dissertation research on women’s self-efficacy for nontraditional occupations. She will use this award towards administrative costs associated with her research.

Sydney K. Allen--$500
A library professional in technical services, Sydney Allen will use this award to attend an intensive metal smithing and jewelry course.

Donna Berger--$1,000
A nontraditional Ph.D. student in Educational Administration and Policy Studies, Donna Berger plans to use this award towards research-related expenses in her study of a holistic self-management program for college students.

Shing sun Chiu--$500
Shing sun Chiu is a mother with two small children completing undergraduate study in an Information Science Policy major. She will use the award towards living expenses.

Charlene Christie--$500
A fourth year Ph.D. candidate in Social/Personality Psychology, Ms. Christie will use this award for two weeks of intensive training with scholars in her research area.

Melinda Denham--$500
Melinda Denham is a Ph.D. student in the Anthropology Department. She will use this award towards transcription costs for interviews with women who use donated eggs to try to become mothers.

Angelina X. Díaz-Myers, Ph.D.--$750
Angelina Díaz-Myers, a professional staff psychologist at the University Counseling Center, will use this award to cover partial costs of registration for Licensure for Psychology, and exam and study materials.

Mia V. Gallo--$1,000
A non-traditional, returning Ph.D. student in Anthropology, Mia Gallo will use this award for tuition, books and research materials for her research in the relationship between PCB and other toxicant levels and growth among adolescents.

Jessica Garrity--$1,000
Ms. Garrity, a second year graduate student in the Women’s Studies Department, will use this award to purchase equipment for her thesis project film about transsexuals in sports, specifically the Gay Games.

Elaine A. Hills--$700
A Ph.D. student in Anthropology, Ms. Hills will use this award towards costs for a conference workshop she will conduct in Tempe, Arizona on participatory action research.

Jennifer M. Jensen--$1,000
A second year assistant professor of political science, Jennifer Jensen will use this award towards participation in courses at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research. Her focus will be on event history analysis and survey research.

Amy Kelley--$500
A Ph.D. student in the Mathematics Department, Amy Kelley will use this award for attendance at the Joint Mathematical Meetings in Phoenix, Arizona.

Megan M. Kelly--$700
Megan Kelly, a Ph.D. student in the Clinical Psychology Program, will use this award to fund research costs in her study of sex differences in the development of anxiety via observational learning.

Pamela D. Lehman--$1,000
Ms. Lehman, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, will use this award towards remuneration of participants and employment of graduate students for her dissertation research on therapeutic process with working class and poor women.

Jacqueline M. Lendrum--$1,000
A mother, farmer and Ph.D. student in the School of Public Health, Ms. Lendrum will use this award for research supplies and childcare this summer as she continues her research to distinguish between human and bovine sources of fecal contamination in water supplies.

Maria Lopez--$750
Maria Lopez is a Ph.D. student in the School of Public Health, concentrating on Behavioral Sciences. She will use this award for research-related supplies and expenses in her comprehensive community assessment of diabetes among Latinos in Amsterdam, NY.

Tatiana Patrone--$1,000
A Ph.D, student in the Philosophy Department, Ms. Patrone will use this award for a laptop computer and printer to help in her dissertation case study on political liberalism in Kant’s political philosophy.

Terrylynn Pearlman--$1,500
Terrylynn Pearlman is a Ph.D. student in the School of Criminal Justice. She will use this award to fund the costs of interviewing and surveys in her research on public opinion regarding hate crimes and related legislation.

Librada Pimentel-Brown--$500
A full-time university staff member, Ms. Pimentel-Brown will use this award for expenses in completing her undergraduate degree. She hopes to pursue graduate studies in career or academic counseling.

Crystal A. Rogers--$600
Ms. Rogers is a Ph.D. student in the School of Social Welfare. She will use this award to fund research, travel and equipment costs associated with her dissertation research on resiliency and coping among people living with sickle cell disease.

Jennifer M. Rudolph--$1,500
An assistant professor in the History Department, Ms. Rudolph will use this award to cover course release expenses while she revises her manuscript, “Negotiating Power and Navigating Change in Qing China,” for publication to meet tenure requirements.

Helene Scheck--$750
Ms. Scheck is an assistant professor in the English Department specializing in medieval women, who will use this award to purchase a digital camera and manuscript microfilm. Her project is an image database on early medieval material culture and an edition of a Carolingian women’s letter book.

Lola Schelling--$500
An undergraduate with a dual major in business administration (MIS) and information science and policy, Lola Schelling will use this award to fund application fees and expenses for an Operation Crossroads Africa summer program.

Dikla Shmueli--$500
A second year Ph.D. student in the Social-Personality Psychology program, Dikla Shmueli is focusing her dissertation on gender discrimination and variations in perceptions of injustice. She will use this award to defray research and travel costs.

Lori Sykes--$800
A Ph.D. candidate in Sociology, Ms. Sykes will use this award to travel to two professional conferences, the Association of Black Sociologists and the American Sociological Association annual meetings, both in Atlanta, Georgia.

Kathleen K. Thornton--$600
A University lecturer and Director of the Undergraduate English Advisement Office, Kathleen Thornton will use this award towards expenses for the College English Association conference. She will deliver her paper, “Shakespeare’s Sense of Justice: the Unbalanced Scales.”

Tracy West--$500
Tracy West is a part-time master’s student in Urban and Regional Planning who hopes to become a full-time student this fall. She will use this award for textbooks.

Award Winners 2002

Presidential Awards (2 at $2,500) 

Johnna Christian
A Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice, Johnna Christian's dissertation will study the effects of incarceration on communities focusing on two in New York City. Ms. Christian will use this award for travel and research related expenses of her dissertation.

Jennifer Lemak
In the History doctoral program, Jennifer Lemak will use this award to study and preserve the history of the African American Community on Rapp Road in Albany. Ms. Lemak will use this award to cover interview expenses and materials for her study.

"Support Her Dream" Award ($2,500)

Laurie Buell
An undergraduate English major, Ms. Buell will use this award to help defray the costs of her tuition and bills to complete her degree in August.

Endowed Awards 

Louise C. and Earl M. Applegate Award ($600)
Jessica Coats Child
A Ph.D. student in the department of Anthropology, Ms. Child will use this award to study ancient Maya civilization at a site in Guatemala. She will use this award to fund her travel and research materials for her study.

Lillian Barlow Award ($1,000)
Asani Halima Seawell
A Clinical Psychology graduate student, Ms. Seawell is studying the effects of systemic lupus erthematosus on African American and Hispanic women. Ms. Seawell will use this award to fund her master's thesis.

Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award ($1,000)
Gayle Sulik
A doctoral candidate in Sociology, Ms. Sulik is studying the gendered characteristics of breast cancer. She will use this award to defray the cost of her research.

Gloria R. DeSole Fund for IFW ($1,000) 
Deborah Woeckner Saavedra 
A doctoral candidate in the U.S. Latino Cultural Studies program, Ms. Woeckner Saavedra will use this award to help her fund the research and travel costs associated with her doctoral dissertation.

Judy L. Genshaft Fund for IFW Scholarship ($500) 
Carol Anne Germain 
A reference librarian in University Libraries and a Ph.D. student in Information Science, Ms. Germain will use this award to cover registration fees for the ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute.

Haynes-Davis Memorial Scholarship ($1,000) 
Shamona Ahmed 
A graduate student in Physics, Ms. Ahmed will use this award to assist her master's thesis and to help her pay for hospital bills that will be incurred with the birth of her child.

Honoring Our Mothers Award ($500) 
Mia Gallo 
A single mother of four and a doctoral student in Anthropology, Ms. Gallo will use this award to help pay for tuition costs and costs of research materials for her study of Northern Native American health and child growth and development.

Initiatives For Women Endowment Award ($500) 
Lani Jones 
An assistant professor in the School of Social Welfare, Ms. Jones is studying the impact of cultural, social, and psychological factors on Blacks caring for aging family members. Ms. Jones will use this award to begin to fund her research.

Bernice Mosbey Peebles '39 Scholarship Award ($1,000) 
Marnelle Dukes-Perkins 
A graduate student in the master's level of study in Special Education, Ms. Dukes-Perkins is also a mother of three. She will use this award to cover the costs of childcare to make it possible for her to finish the program.

Physician's Endowment Fund for IFW ($500) 
Kathleen Lazare
An undergraduate student in biology, Ms. Lazare will use this award to cover MCAT Prep course and MCAT exam expenses.

Susan VanHorn-Shipherd '64 Women in Science Scholarship ($500) 
Jennifer Argentieri
An undergraduate biology major, Ms. Argentieri will use this award to help defray the cost of MCAT, text books, and fees.

Named Awards

Ann Gustin Scholarship for Women in Law and Government ($500) 
Molly Guptill 
A master's student in American History, Ms. Molly Guptill is studying legal history as presented through the writings of Author Cheney Train. Ms. Guptill will use this award to cover travel expenses to Princeton for her thesis.

Secretarial-Clerical Council IFW Award ($500) 
Mandi Jo Moran 
After having her studies undergraduate studies previously interrupted, Ms. Moran will be returning to school to obtain her bachelor's degree in Journalism. She will use her award to help defray the costs of her tuition and her bills.

Women and Technology Award ($500)
Nicole Blair 
A student in the Information Science and Policy Department, Ms. Blair will use this award to help her purchase a new computer.

General Awards

1. Margaret Ballantine - ($1,000) 
A doctoral candidate in the School of Social Welfare, Ms. Ballantine is planning research on the decision-making processes of abused women. Ms. Ballantine will use this award for travel and research related expenses of her dissertation.

2. Sunita Bose - ($1,000) 
A Ph.D. student in Sociology, Ms. Bose will use this award to help fund her dissertation research on male child preference in India.

3. Audrey Choh - ($500) 
As an international doctoral student in biological anthropology, Ms. Choh will use this award to help defray the costs of tuition and books.

4. Cathy A Cioffi - ($500) 
A laboratory coordinator in the Department of Chemistry, Ms. Cioffi will use this award to cover the cost of travel and accommodations to attend the American Chemical Society national meeting.

5. Stephanie Coon - ($500) 
A student in the BA/MA Program in Public Policy, Ms. Coon will use her award to defray the cost of summer study.

6. Lisa Easterly-Klaas - ($500) 
A doctoral candidate in the School of Social Welfare, Ms. Easterly-Klaas will use this award to support her doctoral dissertation research.

7. Michelle Friedman - ($500) 
A graduate student in Counseling Psychology, Ms. Friedman will use this award to defray the cost of finishing her dissertation and her presentation to the American Psychological Association conference in Chicago.

8. Monica Gabriel - ($500) 
A Ph.D. student in Educational Theory and Practice, Ms. Gabriel will use this award to defray the costs of tuition, books and travel expenses for the spring and summer 2002 sessions.

9. Gloria Guptill - ($500) 
A pre-med student, Ms. Gloria Guptill will use this award to cover the cost of the MCAT preparatory course and supplies.

10. Angela Guptill - ($500) 
A doctoral student in the Education Administration and Policy Studies, Ms. Angela Guptill will use this award to defray the costs of her doctoral research.

11. LaToya Jackson - ($750) 
A staff member in the Research Foundation, Ms. Jackson will use her award to defray the cost of a personal computer.

12. Marie Sheila Jeannot - ($500) 
A Ph.D. candidate in French Studies, Ms. Jeannot will use this award to defray the costs of her dissertation research.

13. Bandana Kar - ($600) 
A master's student in Geography and Planning, Ms. Kar will use this award to cover travel and supply expenses for her master's thesis on the costal cities of southern Florida.

14. Naomi Lewis - ($500)
A staff member of the University Art Museum, Ms. Lewis will use this award to fund the two-day conference titled "Off the Wall and Online: Providing Web Access to Cultural Collections."

15. Vanessa-Larae Machado - ($200) 
A full-time graduate student in the Reading Ph.D. program and research assistant for the Center for English Learning and Achievement, Ms. Machado will use this award to support the costs of her research.

16. Kirstin McClaid-Cook - ($600) 
A master's student in Geography and Planning, Ms. McClaid-Cook will use this award to defray the cost of travel and accommodations to Brazil to work on her thesis.

17. Erin McCloskey - ($500) 
A doctoral student in the Reading Department, Ms. McCloskey will use this award to help cover the costs of her dissertation thesis.

18. Amy Merolla - ($750) 
An undergraduate student in Information Science and Policy, Ms. Merolla will use this award to defray the cost of tuition and books.

19. Pamela Ray- ($750) 
A professional employee in University Libraries, Ms. Ray is also in her second year of nursing school. Ms. Ray will use this award to defray the cost of her tuition.

20. Talin Saroukhanian - ($800) 
A doctoral student in Political Science, Ms. Saroukhania will use this award to help cover her expenses to begin her dissertation research at the World Bank.

21. Mary Kay Skrabalak - ($750) 
A lecturer for UNI100 and a member of the support staff in Academic Support Services, Ms. Skrabalak will use this award to cover expenses in attending the Annual National Conference on First-Year Experience in Atlanta, Georgia.

22. Miriam Weber - ($800)
A doctoral candidate in Clinical Psychology, Ms. Weber will use this award to support her dissertation research on cognitive changes associated with aging and dementia. She will use the award to cover research materials and testing costs.

23. Tyleia Williams - ($700) 
A graduate student in the School of Social Welfare, Ms. Williams will use this award to cover childcare costs and tuition for her independent study project.

24. Siqi Zhang - ($500) 
A double major in Business and Japanese, Siqi Zhang intends to study abroad in Japan. Ms. Zhang will use this award to defray the expense of studying at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.

Award Winners 2001

Presidential Awards (2 at $2500) 

Elizabeth Burnworth
A Ph.D. student in Sociology, Elizabeth Burnworth's dissertation will study civic engagement, volunteerism, and activism around breast cancer in the United States. Ms. Burnworth will use this award for travel and research related expenses of her dissertation.

Laurie Keefer
In the doctoral program in Clinical Psychology, Laurie Keefer is studying the psychological and psychophysical symptoms of the perimenopausal phase of women's lives and the use of non-drug alternatives to Hormone Replacement Therapy. Ms. Keefer will use this award to cover interview expenses and materials for her study.

Endowed Awards 

Lillian Barlow Award ($800)
Shirlee Dufort 
A single mother of two college-aged children, Shirlee Dufort has just finished her B.A. degree and continues study for an M.A. in English this fall. Ms. Dufort will use this award to attend the New York State Writer's Institute this summer.

Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award ($1000)
Limarie Nieves-Rosa 
A student in the Ph.D. program in Sociology, Limarie Nieves-Rosa's dissertation research explores the effects of welfare policy changes on the lives of poor women in her native Puerto Rico. This award covers some of the research related costs of Ms. Nieves-Rosa's dissertation.

Gloria R. DeSole Fund for IFW ($1000) 
Joyce Keyes 
A Ph.D. student in Public Administration with a reading disability, Joyce Keyes will use this award to help cover the cost of a tape recorder and paid readers.

Judy L. Genshaft Fund for IFW Scholarship ($500) 
Linda Scoville 
An Academic Advisor in the University Advisement Services Center, Linda Scoville will use this award to attend the 2001 Conference of Northeast Association of Pre-Law Advisors.

Haynes-Davis Memorial Scholarship ($1000) 
Natalya Grigoryants 
A Master's Level student from Russia in Economics, Natalya Grigoryants will use this award to help defray the costs of her tuition and books.

Initiatives For Women Endowment Award ($500) 
Shai Brown 
An African-American who works in Residential Life as a Dutch Quadrangle coordinator, Shai Brown will use this award to attend a course offered by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

The Bernice Mosbey Peebles '39 Scholarship Award ($1000) 
Chrislene Adams 
A Masters of Science student in Special Education, Chrislene Admas is a single mother of four children and is returning to school at a non-traditional age. This award, designated for a woman of color, will cover the cost of childcare while Ms. Adams finishes her degree.

Physician's Endowment Fund for IFW ($500) 
Liana Rodriguez 
An undergraduate student majoring in Chemistry, Liana Rodrigues will use this award to help cover the cost of an MCAT preparation course.

Susan VanHorn-Shipherd '64 Women in Science Scholarship ($500) 
Suzanne Levine 
An undergraduate student majoring in physics and mathematics. Suzanne Levine will use this award to help defray the costs of summer coursework.

Named Awards

Patrick Foti Award in Memory of R. Thomas Fleming ($500) 
Claudine Lochard 
A Ph.D. student in Counseling Psychology and the daughter of Haitian immigrants, Claudine Lochard will use this award to support the costs related to her dissertation research on the career planning decisions of adolescents with sickle-cell anemia.

David and Gladys Groudine Award ($500) 
Deborah McManama 
A D.A. student in the Humanistic Studies program studying English and Educational Administration, Deborah Mc Manama is a single mother of three daughters. Ms. McManama will use this award to help to defray the costs of tuition and books.

Ann Gustin Scholarship for Women in Law and Government ($500) 
Alla Reyfman 
An undergraduate student in the University's accelerated 3+3 Law Program with Albany Law School, Alla Reyfeman will use this award to help defray the costs of tuition and books.

Secretarial-Clerical Council IFW Award ($500) 
Librada Pimentel 
An Office Administrator for the Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies since 1984, Librada Pimental is completing her bachelor's degree through Empire State College. Ms. Pimental will use this award to help defray the costs of her tuition and books.

The Kathleen A. Turek IFW Technology Award ($500)
Rachel Pocino 
An undergraduate student majoring in computer science and mathematics, Rachel Pocino will use this award to help defray the costs of her tuition and books.

General Awards

1. Dalia Abdel-Hady - $300 
A Ph.D. student in Sociology Dalia Abdel-Hady's dissertation research studies Lebanese immigrant communities in the U.S., Canada, and France. Ms. Abdel-Hady will use this award for research related expenses.

2. Carol Anderson - ($1000) 
A librarian in the University Libraries since 1980, Carol Anderson has returned to school to earn a second master's degree in Educational Psychology. Ms. Anderson will use this award to help defray the costs of tuition and related expenses.

3. Center for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC) ($500) 
This award will partially support the publication of the CELAC's teaching aid booklet, Teaching Puerto Rican Women's History.

4. Dolores Cimini ($500) 
Currently the Director of Middle Earth Peer Assistance Program, Dr. Dolores Cimini has worked at the Counseling Center since 1989. Dr. Cimini, who is visually impaired, will use this award to help cover the cost of a portable, talking note-taking device.

5. Stephanie Cour ($500) 
A Ph.D. student in Public Administration, Stephanie Cour is studying the nonprofit sector's use of family-work policies. Ms. Cour will use this award toward the costs involved with dissertation research.

6. Melinda Denham ($300) 
A Ph.D. student in Anthropology, Melinda Denham is studying the experiences of recipients of donor egg in vitro fertilization. Ms. Denham will use this award toward the costs involved with dissertation research.

7. Sara Di Donato ($800) 
An M.F.A. student studying painting, Sara Di Donato has returned to school at a non-traditional age. Her most recent work explores the 1950's and 1960's commercial representations of the Definition of "feminine." Ms. Di Donato will use this award to prepare high quality slidedocumentation of her artwork. This award was funded by a gift from 1981 alumnus Roanne Kulakoff.

8. Marla Frazer ($370) 
A Ph.D. student in Curriculum and Instruction and a single mother of one son, Marla Frazer will use this award to cover the costs of attending the International Society for Humor Studies Conference.

9. Patricia Gonzales ($400) 
A Ph.D. student in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Patricia Gonzales is studying the effects of stereotype threat on the academic performance of young Latino women. Ms. Gonzales will use this award toward the costs involved with dissertation research.

10. Jennifer Gunsaullus ($500) 
A Ph.D. student in Sociology, Jennifer Gunsaullus is studying sexual education organizations and society's view of female sexuality. Ms. Gunsaullus will use this award to help defray the cost of attending the Summer Institute on Sexuality, Society, and Health.

11. Melissa Henneman ($800) 
An undergraduate Biology major, Melissa Henneman is also a Student Assistant in Residential Life and a Peer Mentor in Project Renaissance. Ms. Henneman will use this award to help pay for a summer field ecology course at the Huyck Preserve.

12. LaRae Jome ($300) 
An Assistant Professor in Counseling Psychology, Dr. LaRae Jome studies how gender and gender roles influence the career choices of men and women. Dr. Jome will use this award to help cover the costs of a research project called Women Web Entrepreneurs.

13. Heather Laube ($750) 
A Ph.D. student in Sociology, Heather Laube's dissertation research will investigate the conflicts feminist academic sociologists confront as they attempt to balance their professional goals with their political ideals. Ms. Laube will use this award toward the costs involved with dissertation research.

14. Shealeen Meany ($500) 
A Ph.D. student in English, Shealeen Meany will use this award to supplement her summer income while she prepares her dissertation prospectus.

15. Candace Merbler ($900)
Candace Merbler has worked at the University Libraries for 21 years and is currently a reference support associate. Ms Merbler will use this award to help cover the costs of attending the Institute for Information Literacy '01 run by the Association of College and Research Libraries.

16. Jane Muthumbi ($1000) 
A Ph.D. student from Kenya studying Political Science, Jane Muthumbi is examining the role of religious groups in United Nations international conferences. Ms Muthumbi will use this award to help pay for tuition next year.

17. Lori Burns Sykes ($1000) 
A Ph.D. student in Sociology, Lori Burns Skyes will use this award to help cover travel and lodging for the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. Ms. Sykes will deliver her paper, "Wealth Inequality Among and Between Asian, Black, Hispanic and White Women."

18. Women's Resource Center (WRC) - ($300) 
Run mostly by student volunteers, the Women's Resource Center offers students a gathering place, book and video library, plus training and programming throughout the academic year. The Center will use this award to help pay for some of next year's programming.

19. Kristen Wallingford ($500) 
A Ph.D. student in Sociology, Kristen Wallingford's dissertation research studies the role of gender and sexuality in entrepreneurial activity. Ms. Wallingford will use this award for research related expenses.

20. Yoshiko Yamada - ($1300) 
A Ph.D. student in Social Welfare, Yoshhiko Yamada's dissertation research studies formal home care workers who work with frail elderly populations. Ms. Yamada will use this award to cover research related expenses.

Award Winners 2000

Presidential Awards (5 at $1,000 each)

Belle Gironda 
Assistant Director of Instructional Development in the University's Center for Excellence and Teaching and a published multimedia poet, Dr. Gironda is also a single mother of two children who recently completed her Ph.D. in English at the University. The award will cover airfare to England to present a paper at Incubation: The TrAce International Conference on Writing and the Internet, at Trent -Nottingham University. She will also give a poetry reading in London, right before the conference, on July 4, as part of the Subvoicive reading series in London.

Grace Mose 
A Kenyan student in the D.A. program in Humanistic Studies program. Her primary field of study is women's studies; her secondary field is anthropology. Her dissertation research is on Female Genital Mutilation practices of the Kisii community of Kenya. This award will cover travel expenses and research materials for this project. Not only is this Ms. Mose's dissertation research, she will use this research to develop an eradication and intervention strategy to present to the Kenyan government.

Librada Pimentel-Brown 
Office Administrator for the Department of Latin American and Caribbean Studies since 1984, Ms Pimentel-Brown has a strong record of professional success and university service. Now that her daughter has completed her undergraduate degree, Ms Pimentel-Brown has returned to school at Empire State College with plans to change careers in higher education. Her degree will be in Educational Studies. The award will help cover tuition and related expenses.

Judy Postmus 
A PhD student in Social Welfare, Ms Postmus' dissertation research focuses on the effects of welfare reform on victims of domestic violence. She is examining why domestic violence victims on welfare choose not to identify themselves as such and not to seek additional assistance that is available to them. This award will support her dissertation research.

Sarah Sobieraj 
A former Vista volunteer and a current Ph.D. Student in Sociology, Ms Sobieraj has an excellent academic record. Her research focuses on how voluntary associations and their volunteers utilize national campaigns to maximize their effectiveness and create lasting social change. Ms. Sobieraj will use this award for travel related expenses of her dissertation research.

Endowed Gifts

The Lillian Barlow Initiatives For Women Award ($500) 
Jenny Wistedt 
MFA student studying painting. Her paintings address the female body and how it is perceived - not only by others, but also by women themselves. This award will cover the cost of materials for her MFA thesis project.

The Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta-Belen IFW Feminist Research Award ($500) 
Harry Ann Pearce 
A Ph.D. student in Sociology who is also a single mother and a returning student. Her dissertation research studies the relationship between mainstream American corporations and the gay and lesbian community, made visible in the form of a gay consumer marketplace. This award supports the costs of her research.

The Gloria R. DeSole Fund for IFW ($500) 
Stephanie Madnick 
A staff member of the Department of Residential Life and a Ph.D. student in History. Ms Madnick is doing research is on the local history of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community in Albany, focusing on politics and the shaping of public policy as it related to this community. This award will help to fund the cost of oral history narratives on community leaders.

The Judy L. Genshaft IFW Award ($500 + $500 from the General Fund) 
Maritza Martinez 
Assistant Dean of the Office of Academic Support Services/Educational Opportunities Program. Ms. Martinez is a Latina and the head of household with three children. She has a stellar professional reputation on campus and a strong record of university service. Ms. Martinez will use her award toward the costs of a two-week managerial training course at Harvard in June 2001.

The Bernice Mosbey Peebles '39 Scholarship Award ($500) 
Tamara Stovall 
An African-American undergraduate junior majoring in history. Ms Stovall was recently admitted into the highly competitive undergraduate Teacher Education program. She will use this award for tuition and related expenses.

The Susan VanHorn-Shipherd '64 Women in Science Scholarship ($500) 
Karin Ford 
A single mother of four children, Ms Ford returned to school and is majoring in Biology. She is planning on a career as a science teacher. Ms Ford will use her award for summer school tuition and childcare.

Named Awards

The IFW Fine Art Scholarship Award ($500) 
Jessica Morrison 
An undergraduate art student studying printmaking. She is planning to be an art teacher. She will use this award for materials for her summer and fall art classes.

Patrick A. Foti Award in Memory of R. Thomas Flemming ($500) 
Sarah McClean 
A Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice. Ms McClean's dissertation research studies the judicial decisions in the processing or adjudication of misdemeanor domestic violence cases, mainly how the judge's personal opinions, prejudices and orientation affect the decisions made on the bench. This award supports costs related to this research.

The Gladys and David Groudine IFW Award ($500) 
Constance Spohn 
Director of the University's Two-Year College Development Center and Ed.D. student in Educational Administration. She is a non-traditionally aged graduate student who has worked at the University since 1992. This award will help to defray research-related expenses of her dissertation.

Anne Gustin Scholarship for Women in Law and Government ($250 + $250 from the General Fund) 
Rochelle Haynes 
African-American undergraduate, majoring in political science, and minoring in English and history. She plans to go to law school and then on to a career in public service and political office. Her campus service record includes Director of Women Empowerment for Excellence and mentor in the Leadership Development Institute. Ms. Haynes will use this award to for a LSAT prep course.

John S. Levato Award in Memory of Jennine O'Reilly-Conway '88 ($500) 
Kimberly McClive 
Ph.D. student in Social/Personality Psychology program, studying how emotional vulnerability impacts people's intentions to reduce their exposure to health risks like sexually transmitted diseases. Ms. McClive is an older graduate student who was able to realize her long-term dream of doctoral study after separating from her former husband. She has developed a repetitive strain injury in her hands, an injury that is impeding her progress in her Ph.D. program. This award will help her purchase voice recognition software and a laptop computer.

John S. Levato Award in Memory of Lai Wah Kui '97 ($500) 
Wendy Gobeil-St. Pierre 
A Ph.D. student in Social Welfare who is completing her dissertation from a distance; she had to return home to Maine for family responsibilities. Her dissertation research studies the verbal and nonverbal interactions between people with Alzheimer's disease and their family and friends. She hopes to correct misconceptions about the cognitive awareness of those with the disease and to provide better communication methods for their caregivers. This award will support the costs of this research.

The Secretarial-Clerical Council IFW Award ($250 + $250 from the General Fund) 
Marina Taylor
Senior Administrative Assistant in the Professional Development Program and a undergraduate majoring in Sociology. A woman of color, Ms. Taylor has returned to school at a non-traditional age to complete her bachelor's degree. She has worked at the University since 1985, when she started as a keyboard specialist. This award will help Ms. Taylor purchase a personal computer for her class assignments.

The Lena Tucker IFW Memorial Award ($500) 
Ozioma Egwuonwu 
Undergraduate woman of color born in Nigeria. She is pursuing double majors in English and Communication. Ultimately she is planning to pursue a career in a law-related field. This award will help cover the cost of an LSAT preparation course.

General Awards

Nancy Belowich-Negron ($500) 
Director of Disabled Students Services and Chair of the Campus Affiliate of National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI).. This award will help send two women from this campus to the next NCBI Empowerment Retreat for Women.

Judeen Byrne ($500) 
A graduate student in the Master of Public Administration program. She is returning to school after raising three daughters and moving her family according to the structure of her former husband's military career. She finished her bachelor's degree in 1999 and began the M.P.A. program at a nontraditional age. Ms. Byrne will use this award towards tuition for a summer class.

Elizabeth Campisi ($500) 
A Ph.D. student in Anthropology. Her dissertation research is an extension of the experience she had working for the Justice Department's Community Relations Service at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She will study the Cuban rafters, the balseros, their experiences in the camps and their adjustment to the U.S. culture.

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning ($900)
This award supports the initial development of the Ariadne Project, an initiative designed to enhance and strengthen the community of University women interested in and involved with information technologies.

Tracy Chance ($500) 
An African-American undergraduate student who is in the combined "3+3" program with Albany Law School. She was also in the first class of students to participate in Project Renaissance. She will use this award for tuition and related expenses.

Michele Guzman ($500) 
A Ph.D. student in Counseling. A Latina with an excellent academic record, she is studying how ethnic identity and cultural scripts may play a role in the attitude Mexican-Americans have toward education. She will use this award toward the costs involved with dissertation research.

Jennifer Hays ($500) 
A Ph.D. student in Anthropology who is studying the indigenous people of Southern Africa, the San, in the education systems of that region. She will apply this award toward airfare to Namibia.

Danielle Kassow ($200) 
A Ph.D. student in the Division of Educational Psychology and Methodology. Her dissertation research, The Development Patterns of Young Girls' Body Image and Its Relationship to the Media, explores societal standards for female "thinness" and "beauty." She will use this award for research-related materials.

Jennifer Keys ($500) 
A Ph.D. student in Sociology. Her dissertation research is on the "feeling rules" which govern the abortion process for women who choose to terminate a pregnancy. She will use this award to defray summer living expenses normally covered by a summer job while she completes research on a full time basis.

Kristen Knutson ($500) 
A Ph.D. student in Anthropology. An excellent student who, before beginning her graduate work at Albany, worked as a secretary to the Chair of a Neurobiology and Physiology Department. She will use this award for tuition and books.

Julia Monokova ($500) 
An international Ph.D. student in Public Administration from Ukraine. Her dissertation research examines the intersection of public policy and organizational theory. She will use this award toward the cost of her data sets.

Julie Osland ($355) 
A fourth year Ph.D. student in Social Psychology, she will be presenting a poster presentation of her research, "Anger, Hostility, and Gender Roles: Exploring Links to Attachment and Sexual Coercion," at the American Psychological Society Conference in June. This award will pay for her airfare to the conference.

Josephine Ravida ($500) 
On the support staff as a Secretary I in Human Resources Management for 9 years, Ms. Ravida is pursuing a B.S. degree in Psychology, after 33 years of government service. Funding will help her purchase a personal computer to complete her class assignments.

Rosann Santos ($500) 
A Ph.D. student in History and a Latina. Her dissertation research studies gender and education, and imperialism in Cuba during the first U.S. occupation (1898-1902). She will use this award towards housing expenses during her research trip to Cuba.

Edie Watson ($500) 
A graduate student working on the M.S. program in Special Education and the M.S. program in Reading. An excellent student with 4.0 GPA, she will use this award for tuition and related expenses.

Support Her Dreams Award

Katea Dale 
A 25-year-old graduate student working on two master's programs in Special Education and Reading, Ms Dale is also the legal guardian of her five youngest siblings and head of a household of seven. In appreciation of Ms Dale's determination and sacrifice, and in celebration of Ms Dale's success in keeping her family together, this special IFW Support Her Dreams Award supports Katea's dreams of finishing her studies and becoming a teacher.

Award Winner 1999

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.

Award Winners 1998

Presidential Awards ($1,000 each)

Corel Brown 
Ph.D. student in English. Financial assistance to spend the summer finishing her novel, The Unsayable, a multigenerational story about incest. By writing about three generations of incest, Ms Brown hopes to show "…how something so horrible happens again-again-again."

Center for Latino, Latina American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC) 
Edna Acosta-Belen, accepting 
Financial assistance for publishing Internationalizing Women’s Studies: Cross-Cultural Perspectives for Gender Research and Teaching, a volume of selected papers from the major conference activities of the University’s 1995-98 Ford Foundation project, Internationalizing Women’s Studies.

Jennifer Clunie 
M.A. student in History. Financial support to complete research on a history of the grassroots abortion rights activists (individuals and organizations) in New York State who campaigned from 1962 to 1973 to legalize abortion. 
"This award provides both financial and emotional support and encouragement to conduct research on a movement by, for, and about women."

Jamie Evans 
Undergraduate Sociology major, premed student and woman of color who demonstrates outstanding academic talent. Financial support for summer classes needed to complete major and premed requirements.
"I sincerely thank the IFW awards committee for giving me this rare opportunity to financially support my educational goals. It is already a difficult task trying to maintain my individuality as a student being a young woman, and also a woman of color. The IFW awards committee has recognized my academic talents as a student in this position and thus has helped to advance me one step closer toward achieving my aspirations."

Yang Shen 
Ph.D. student in Sociology. Research on empowering women through neighborhood social services and individual resources: a case study in Shanghai. Funds go toward interview costs and travel.

Named Awards

The Lillian Barlow Initiatives For Women Award ($500) 
Tanya Manning 
Ph.D. student in Education and R.A. for CELA. African American, non-traditional age student. Will run a two to three month seminar for high school and college women on writing and performance. She is linking teaching literacy to her own interest in performance art, with a focus on women and empowerment.
"This award has allowed me to make come true my envisionment of working with and for women."

The Kathleen A. Turek Initiatives For Women Award ($500) 
Tina Tarquinio 
Computer Science and Applied Mathematics major, interested in combining computer science and law interests. For tuition for extra summer courses.

The Susan Van Horn Shipherd ’64 Women in Science Scholarship ($250) 
Karin Kemp 
Undergraduate woman of color majoring in English and Biology and planning for a career in medicine. Financial assistance for summer school.

The Secretarial/Clerical Council Initiatives For Women Award ($250) 
Deborah Coppola 
Support staff member of the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center and working mother returning to school at a non-traditional age. Financial support to complete an Associates degree at Hudson Valley Community College.

The Initiatives For Women Fine Art Scholarship ($500) 
Anna Socha 
Undergraduate, non-traditional age student. Costs to set up an exhibit of her photos from the Fourth World United Nations Conference on Women (Beijing) at Borders Books and Music.
"This award will enable me to share a glimpse into the magic of women’s involvement in making changes globally, by working on the grassroots level."

The Jennine O’Reilly-Conway ’88 Award($500) 
Lisa Easterly 
Ph.D. student in Social Welfare. Single mother returning to school at a non-traditional age. Financial assistance to complete her degree and work with affirmative businesses who employ people with disabilities.

The Gloria R. DeSole Fund for Initiatives For Women ($500) 
Angelina Diaz 
Assistant Director of Middle Earth Peer Assistance Program at the University’s Counseling Center and a Ph.D. student in Counseling Psychology. Financial support for dissertation research on the relationship between cultural identity and HIV risk among Latina women.
"This award is immensely important to me as a Latina woman because, not only is it assisting me to attain my doctorate, but it also makes contributions to the dearth of HIV/AIDS prevention research on women."

The Anne Gustin Scholarship for Women in Law and Government ($250) 
Jennifer Cordes 
Undergraduate Sociology major in the 3+3 Law Program with Albany Law School and a member of the 1997 ECAC Championship Field Hockey Team. Financial support for a woman demonstrating outstanding academic and athletic accomplishment.

The University at Albany Women’s Association, "University Women’s Award" ($500 each) 
Althea Bartley 
Student in M.S. program in Biometrics and Statistics in the School of Public Health. African American woman out of school two years between University at Albany B.S. and graduate school. Also helps out with projects at the Center for Minority Health.

Kathleen Vedder 
Returning woman student and single mother. Currently in advanced study in MSW program. High G.P.A. while raising three teenagers. Previously worked in Head Start before coming to University at Albany and wants to eventually work in pediatric oncology. Funds needed for basic living expenses.

The Bernice Mosbey Peebles ’39 Scholarship Award ($500) 
Nikki Josephs 
Undergraduate woman of color majoring in history and beginning the teacher education program in Fall 1998 in order to prepare for a career teaching social studies in urban education.

The Gladys and David Groudine Award ($250) 
Keiko Miwa 
Ph.D. student in Educational Administration and Policy Studies. To support her dissertation research. She is looking at non-government and government organizations relations in primary education in Bangladesh.

Initiatives For Women Awards

Laura Castillo ($500) 
Ed.D. student in Educational Administration and Policy Studies. Financial support for dissertation research on the relationship between Feminist Popular Education and the political activism and empowerment of women in the Dominican Republic.
"I wouldn’t have had the opportunity to do international research without this award. It helps me to realize my research goals."

Stacey Dawes ($600) 
M.S. student in Reading. Financial support to finish degree which will allow her to teach as an English Language Arts/Reading instructor.

Jesse Epstein ($200) 
M.F.A. student in Studio Art, for art supplies. 
"This funding allows me to continue supporting my education and career as a woman artist, resolving questions and creating dialogue between our physical and spiritual presence."

Patricia Gonzales ($300) 
Ph.D. student in Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Remuneration of research subjects for a research project on the effects of "stereotype threat" on test performance of Latino students.
"Because Latino subjects are difficult to find, this funding allows me to complete my project and complete my Master’s degree."

Marcia Hernandez ($500) 
Ph.D. student in Sociology. Funding for equipment to study the effects of an instructor’s race and gender on students’ tolerance and acceptance of information, and belief in the competency of the instructor.

Miehyeon Kim ($1,000) 
Ph.D. student in English. The funds will be used for research on American minority women writers as a Ph.D. dissertation.

Crystal Moore ($500) 
Ph.D. student in Social Welfare. A prior IFW award recipient whose research under that 1996 grant produced a published article. For dissertation work on the roles of family and religion in end-of-life medical decision-making among the elderly, an issue that is especially salient to mothers and daughters who often bear the responsibility of caregiving.
"The IFW program has enabled me to successfully pursue a line of meaningful research, an essential activity in realizing my goal of becoming an academic in the field of social welfare. My first publication was made possible through the generosity of IFW, and I am indeed grateful for the program’s continued support."

Tessie Petion ($450) 
Undergraduate Business major, concentrating in MSI. Eventually wants to be a doctor. Prior Spellman Award winner. Funds toward Kaplan MCAT review preparation.
"Because I got a late start in my preparation for medical school, the Kaplan course will make it easier for me to gain entrance into medical
school."

Lea Pickard ($600) 
Ph.D. student in Anthropology. For travel to Mexico to do fieldwork for thesis on Mexican women’s involvement in the abortion debates.

Bonnie Spanier ($500) 
Associate Professor of Women’s Studies. To travel and tape interviews about grassroots activism to eradicate breast cancer.
"This award encourages me to pursue a long-range project on science and feminist activism."

E. Michele Staley ($500) 
Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice. Funds go toward surveying criminal justice decision makers on the treatment of women and men offenders in child abuse cases. Funding will help offset copying and postage expenses for the mail survey to be used in her dissertation research.
"This award is a wonderful honor. Especially from such a worthwhile organization."

Rebecca Stanley ($900) 
Coordinator of Distance Education, Professional Development Program at Rockefeller College. Disabled staff member. Funds are for full-time attendant to come with her to a conference and summer course on Quality of Life for the Disabled in Copenhagen. She has funding, but needs car rental and registration fee for attendant.

Nalani White ($500) 
Ph.D. student in Counseling Psychology. Needs to pay fees to make use of privately registered questionnaire for her thesis work on ethnic identity and academic self-sufficiency.

Pamela Wiener ($600) 
Ph.D. student in Social Welfare. Seeks subject fees for a study of grandparents as surrogate parents to their grandchildren. Sample will be taken from not-for-profit support groups in Florida, where she lives.

Patricia Willis ($500) 
D.A. in Humanistic Studies student, with a focus on Women’s Studies and Public Policy. Funding will allow her to take more credits. Has a research interest in the effects of the Women’s Movement on flight attendant organizing in the 1970’s.

Women Organized for Radical Difference (WORD) ($250) 
Elizabeth Burnworth, accepting 
Wants to sponsor sexual assault awareness workshop utilizing peer education to be made available to residence hall advisors and course instructors, especially about acquaintance rape.

Award Winners 1997

Presidential Awards ($1,000 each)

Shakira Franco 
M.S. student in Epidemiology. Financial support to help finish thesis project which analyzes Prenatal Care and Assistance Programs data in an attempt to assess racial and ethnic differences on the risk of HIV on pregnant and postpartum women and differences in the proportion of HIV counseling and testing services they receive.

Hermas Rodriguez-Perez 
M.A. student in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Travel to El Salvador to study the reintegration to civilian life of women "guerrillas" in El Salvador after a ten-year civil war.

Marlene Sarjeant 
Ph.D. student in Ecology. Financial support to hire a student research assistant for her project on the status of the Karner butterfly, and developing population models for its management.

Mary Sullivan
M.A./C.A.S. student in Public History. Funding to replace failed computer equipment after VESID computer hard drive crashed.

Jennine O'Reilly Conway Award ($520) 

Olga Sharoichenko 
Ph.D. student in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences. Increase financial support to help pay for international student medical insurance for her and her son. Ms Sharoichenko is also the recipient of an IFW Award.

University at Albany's Women's Association Award ($500 each) 

Kathy Black 
Ph.D. student in Social Welfare. Woman returning to school at a non-traditional age. Financial support to complete research on gender differences in communications with hospitalized elderly patients.

Deborah Woeckner Saavedra
Master's student in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Financial assistance to register for additional classes.

Fine Art Scholarship Award ($500) 

Tracy Straight Freed 
Undergraduate student in Fine Arts. Funds for books and printmaking material.

Bernice Mosbey Peebles '39 Scholarship Award ($500) 

Celinda Vanichpong 
Undergraduate student in Spanish; accepted into the School of Education. Travel to Spain for Fall 1997 semester.

Anne Gustin Scholarship for Women in Law and Government ($500) 

Caron Jacobson 
Ph.D. student in Criminal Justice. Financial support for research materials to study rape crisis centers in the eastern block countries.

Award Winners 1996

Presidential Awards ($1,000 each)

Xiomara Davila Diaz 
Undergraduate premed/biology major. Financial support for woman of color asked to represent Puerto Rico in track and field in upcoming international games.

Nancy Forand 
Ph.D. student in Anthropology. For purchase of laptop computer for dissertation research which involved fieldwork in Mexico on gender relations in Indian communities.

Claudia Heyer 
Undergraduate English major. Single mother of four young children. Financial support for summer child care.

Thirteenth Moon 
Feminist literary magazine through English department. For purchase of laser printer and scanner.

Bao-Zhu Yang
Ph.D. student in Biometry and Statistics. Woman with disability. For purchase of computer for home use.

Jennine O'Reilly Conway Award ($500)

Elizabeth Feldman 
MSW student. Financial assistance to complete her degree and work with at-risk and adjudicated adolescent population.

General Awards

Carolynn Akpan ($800) 
Training Program Coordinator for the Special Education Program in Educational Psychology and Statistics. For survey research on women of color entering special education.

Barbara Lewis Carman ($1,000) 
Ph.D. student in Biology. Woman returning to school at a nontraditional age and single parent with financial need.

M. Dolores Cimini ($800) 
Director of Middle Earth Peer Assistance Program. Woman with disability in need of computer equipment to accommodate her disability.

Lorraine Cummings ($700) 
Undergraduate student in English. Woman returning to school at a nontraditional age and who demonstrates outstanding academic accomplishments.

Carrie Curley ($500) 
MFA student. For materials for Master's thesis exhibit which focuses on women's bodies and pregnancy.

Lynne Davidson ($400) 
MSW student. Woman with disability who plans to work with others with disabilities.

Nancy Fisher ($750) 
Ph.D. student in Sociology. Pursue content analysis of self-help books on incest.

Emily Gonzalez ($750) 
Ph.D. student in Psychology. For supplies and compensation of research subjects for dissertation on psychological resilience in the children of socio-economically disadvantaged mothers diagnosed with an affective or anxiety disorder.

Carolyn Hamilton ($500) 
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions. Woman of color returning to school at a nontraditional age. Tuition assistance for work toward
Ed.D. in Educational Administration and Policy Studies.

Lynn Hassan ($300) 
MFA student. For materials for Master's thesis exhibit making reference to the human figure and human psyche.

Dawn Knight-Thomas ($600) 
MSW student. To purchase textbooks and articles to set up own non-profit organization for African American and Latino youth who have been in long-term foster care.

Andrea Meldrum Sopko ($500) 
Ph.D. student in Counseling Psychology. Remuneration for research subjects for a project on women with eating disorders and how their social
expectations are related to body image.

Crystal Moore ($650) 
Ph.D. student in Social Welfare. Remuneration for research subjects for project on factors determining who completes advance health care directives on end-of-life decisions.

Kausiki Mukhopadhyay ($1,000) 
Ph.D. student in Sociology. Travel to India for research on women running their own business or working in service sector with a focus on characteristics allowing them to move out of family subordination.

Ellen Nolan ($500) 
Senior Clerk, Registrar's Office. Financial support for undergraduate Anthropology major.

Jan Marie Olson ($350) 
Ph.D. student in Anthropology. Travel to Guatemala for research to revisit original research site.

Andrea Purcigliotti ($500) 
Undergraduate in Fine Arts. To purchase art supplies.

Suzanne Rancourt ($400) 
Ph.D. student in Educational Psychology and Statistics. To publish her poetry and other creative writing.

Secretarial-Clerical Council ($500) 
Honorarium for a guest speaker at annual S/CC workshop.

Joane Ternier ($500) 
Undergraduate English major. Single mother, woman of color. Financial support for child care.

Suzannah Tieman ($500) 
Senior Research Associate in Biology. Woman with disability. Funds to hire graduate student lab assistant.