Women's Impact Network Announces Grant Recipients

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The Women’s Impact Network (WIN) is pleased to announce its second year of grant awardees. In 2018 WIN members raised over $255,000 and received 21 grant proposals. The applicants represented faculty, staff, and students, submitting proposals ranging from student and faculty support, research, diversity and inclusion, conferences, leadership, and innovation and entrepreneurship. WIN is excited to award seven grants this year and invites you to celebrate the awardees at a special WPI community event:

“Elevating Women in STEM” at 3 pm, Saturday, April 28 at Rubin Campus Center, Odeum, featuring keynote address “The Age of the Entrepreneur” by Jodi Gernon ’86, Director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School.  

2018 winning proposals:

  • Institutionalizing the WIN Women's Writers Colony at WPI

    PRINCIPAL AUTHOR: PATRICIA STAPLETON

    Assistant Professor, Social Science & Policy Studies

    CO-AUTHOR: NATALIE FARNY

    Assistant Teaching Professor, Biology & Biotechnology
  • It’s On Us

    PRINCIPAL AUTHOR: CHERISE GALASSO

    Associate Athletic Director; Head Women’s Basketball Coach; Senior Women’s Administrator, Physical Education, Recreation, and Athletics

    CO-AUTHOR: BRIAN KELLEY

    Adviser - Student Athlete Advisory Committee; Head Men’s Soccer Coach, Physical Education, Recreation, and Athletics

    CO-AUTHOR: WHITNEY GOLDSTEIN

    Adviser - Student Athlete Advisory Committee; Head Softball Coach, Physical Education, Recreation, and Athletics
  • Supporting Women in Data Science via the Women in Data Science Symposium: Fostering Diversity, Community, Mentorship, Outreach and Global Impact all in one!

    PRINCIPAL AUTHOR: MELANIE JUTRAS

    Graduate Student, Data Science

    CO-AUTHOR: ELKE RUNDENSTEINER

    Professor, Computer Science; Director, Data Science Program

    CO-AUTHOR: FATEMEH EMDAD

    Associate Teaching Professor, Computer Science

    CO-AUTHOR: CAITLIN KUHLMAN

    Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science

    CO-AUTHOR: CANSU SEN

    Ph.D. Candidate, Computer Science
  • Supporting WPI Women Faculty Researchers

    PRINCIPAL AUTHOR: DIANE STRONG

    Professor, Foisie School of Business

    CO-AUTHOR: ELEANOR LOIACONO

    Professor, Foisie School of Business

    CO-AUTHOR: ELKE RUNDENSTEINER

    Professor, Computer Science; Director, Data Science Program

    CO-AUTHOR: PAMELA WEATHERS

    Professor, Biology & Biotechnology
  • WIN Summer Experience Grant

    PRINCIPAL AUTHOR: HEIDI MORTON

    Career Counselor, Career Development Center

    CO-AUTHOR: CAITLIN DONLAN

    Assistant Director, Student Activities
  • WIN Women's Young Investigator Fellowship: Providing WPI Students and Faculty with Mentorship and Research Conference Opportunities

    PRINCIPAL AUTHOR: ERIN OTTMAR

    Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Psychology, Social Science & Policy Studies

    CO-AUTHOR: EMILY DOUGLAS

    Professor and Department Head, Social Science & Policy Studies

    CO-AUTHOR: AVERY HARRISON

    Research Assistant, Learning Sciences & Technologies

    CO-AUTHOR: TAYLYN HULSE

    Research Assistant, Learning Sciences & Technologies

    CO-AUTHOR: MARIA DAIGLE

    Undergraduate Student, Psychology
  • WRAMP: Women's Research and Mentorship Program-Expanded

    PRINCIPAL AUTHOR: SUZANNE SONTGERATH

    Director of Pre-Collegiate Outreach Programs, Enrollment Management

    CO-AUTHOR: KATHERINE CHEN

    Executive Director of the STEM Education Center, Academic Affairs

    CO-AUTHOR: TIFFINY BUTLER

    Assistant Teaching Professor, Biomedical Engineering