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The Women’s Impact Network (WIN) is pleased to announce its most recent cycle of grant awardees. In 2024, WIN will award over $150,000, funding 11 of 17 grant proposals. The applicants represented faculty, staff, students, and alumnae, submitting proposals ranging from student and faculty support, to research, diversity and inclusion, conferences, leadership, and innovation and entrepreneurship. WIN invites you to celebrate the awardees at a special WPI community event on Saturday, March 23, 2024. More details and the registration form can be found here.

The grant recipients will be awarded at 10:00 a.m. in the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center of the Innovation Studio. This portion of the event will also include a panel discussion featuring WPI staff and alumnae, focused on the Art of Advocacy.

2024 Winning Proposals

Francesca Bernardi	Assistant Professor - Mathematical Sciences	Girls Talk Math at WPI: Expanding a free math and media camp to engage local girls and non-binary high school students
Stephen McCauley	Associate Professor of Teaching, Department of Integrative and Global Studies	Intersectional AI: An Artist-in-Residence Series Exploring the Social Implications of Emerging Technologies
Leithsa Dimanche	Student, Class of 2024	National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), National Annual Convention
Catherine Whittington	Faculty- Assistant Professor - Biomedical Engineering	Providing Wraparound Support for Extended Research and Professional Development Experiences for WPI LSAMP Scholars
Colleen Shaver	Staff, Director Robotics Research Center	Robotics is for Everyone
Elitumaini Swai	Alumna, Class of 2023	Sayanssi Ambassadors - Global STEM Outreach Opportunity for WPI Women in STEM
Andrea Arnold	Faculty- Assistant Professor Mathematical Sciences	Sonia Kovalevsky Day: Mathematics Outreach Initiative for Middle School Girls
Tsitsi Masvawure	Faculty- Assistant Professor - Interdisciplinary & Global Studies	Supporting Menstrual Wellbeing and the Use of Sustainable Menstrual Products at WPI
Elke Rundensteiner	Faculty - The William Smith Dean’s Professor in Computer Science	Supporting Women in Data Science via the Women in Data Science Symposium: Foster- ing Diversity, Community, Mentorship, Outreach and Global Impact all in one!
Elizabeth DiLoreto	Graduate Research Assistant- Biology and Biotechnology	Women in STEM Book Club
Nicole Anterni	Director of Sponsorship & Events, Pre-Collegiate Outreach Programs	Worcester Women in STEM Pathways Initiative

People

Francesca Bernardi

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

I am an applied mathematician working in the fields of small-scale fluid mechanics and microfluidics. My research includes both mathematical modeling and physical experiments. In particular, I am interested in particle and solute transport in small-scale systems, such as municipa [...]

Stephen McCauley

Associate Professor of Teaching & Department Head,

Department of Integrative and Global Studies - DIGS

Stephen McCauley is a geographer whose work focuses on exploring how cities change and how urban futures can be inclusive, green and resilient. His broad substantive interests include climate change preparedness, urban resilience, energy system innovation, community participation [...]

Catherine Whittington

Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering

My research focuses on combining bio-instructive biomaterials with cells to design 3D tissue-engineered platforms for regenerative medicine, disease modeling, improved predictability of therapeutic outcomes, and as translatable technologies for clinic and industry. Projects aim t [...]

Andrea Arnold

Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences

My research focuses on inverse problems and uncertainty quantification, incorporating elements of applied and computational mathematics, statistics, and scientific computing. Broadly speaking, inverse problems involve finding the unknown causes of observed effects, and uncertain [...]

Tsitsi Masvawure

Assistant Professor,

Department of Integrative and Global Studies - DIGS

I am a medical anthropologist, global health researcher and feminist scholar, whose research focuses on issues of gender, sexuality and health. I am primarily interested in the HIV pandemic and have conducted research on HIV prevention and treatment in various countries in Africa [...]