Women's Impact Network Announces 2024 Grant Recipients
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AdvancementThe 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 |