“Supporting women STEM students and researchers is not only an essential part of America’s strategy to out-innovate, out-educate, and out-build the rest of the world; it is also important to women themselves.”
— The Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House
The INSIGHT Into Diversity 100 Inspiring Women in STEM Award honors women who work to make a difference in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). While women who work in these fields enjoy significant opportunities to engage in new discoveries and innovations, they are rarely recognized for their hard work and dedication.
Through this award, we acknowledge these women who inspire and encourage a new generation of young women to consider careers in STEM, through mentoring, teaching, research, and successful programs and initiatives.
2015 Inspiring Women in STEM Award recipients
Jennifer Adam, PhD — Washington State University
Amy C. Anderson, PhD — University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy
Ann Anderson, PhD — Union College
Nada Marie Anid, PhD — New York Institute of Technology
Julie Beckstead, PhD — Gonzaga University
Holly Bevsek, PhD — The Citadel Military College
Canan Bilen-Green, PhD, CQE — North Dakota State University
Susan Blaser — Metropolitan Community College, Business & Technology Campus
Cynthia Brossman — Boston University
Evelyn Brown, PhD — East Carolina University
Maya Byfield, PhD — Seminole State College of Florida
Janey Camp, PhD, PE, GISP — Vanderbilt University
Mary Carroll, PhD — Union College
Shraddha Chaplot — Cisco Systems, Inc.
Marie-Francoise Chesselet, MD, PhD — David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Lily Claiborne, PhD — Vanderbilt University
Sarah Codd, PhD — Montana State University
Anita E. Csoma, PhD — ConocoPhillips Co.
Winny Dong, PhD — California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Kelly Doran, PhD — San Diego State University
Anne Douglass, PhD — NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Delores M. Etter, PhD — Southern Methodist University
Silvia Figueira, PhD — Santa Clara University
Krishna Foster, PhD — California State University, Los Angeles
Ana Cristina Fulladolsa Palma, PhD — University of Wisconsin–Madison
Gail Gasparich, PhD — Towson University
Judith Gasson, PhD — David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Isabel Gauthier, PhD — Vanderbilt University
Sara Giordano, PhD — San Diego State University
Victoria Greene, PhD — Vanderbilt University
Laura Guertin, PhD — Penn State Brandywine
Julia H. Haggerty, PhD — Montana State University
Meredith Hastings, PhD — Brown University
Christy Haynes, PhD — Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, University of Minnesota
Rachelle Heller, PhD — The George Washington University
Eunha Hoh, PhD — San Diego State University
Kelly Holley-Bockelmann, PhD — Vanderbilt University
Tracey Holloway, PhD — University of Wisconsin-Madison, Earth Science Women’s Network
Anne Hornickel — University of Minnesota
Helen Hu, PhD — Westminster College, Salt Lake City
Maria V. Kalevitch, PhD — Robert Morris University
Tanja Karp, PhD — Texas Tech University
Bernine Khan, PhD — University of Texas at Dallas
Rebecca Klaper, PhD — Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Anna Krylov, PhD — University of Southern California
Tracey Lanham — Fisher School of Technology, Hodges University
Sarah B. Lee, PhD — Mississippi State University
Nina Leonhardt — Suffolk County Community College
Gloria Liu — Oakton Community College
Shirley Malcom, PhD — American Association for the Advancement of Science
Elaine Maldonado — Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY
Alycia Marshall, PhD — Anne Arundel Community College
Kelsey C. Martin, PhD, MD — David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Aileen Marty, MD — Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Maja Matarić, PhD — University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering
Ebony McGee, PhD — Vanderbilt University
Lea Vacca Michel, PhD — Rochester Institute of Technology
Emily Miller, PhD — Association of American Universities
Urbashi Mitra, PhD — University of Southern California
Mahnaz Moallem, PhD — University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Amy Moll, PhD — Boise State University
Loretta A. Moore, PhD — Jackson State University
Elise Morgan, PhD — Boston University
Sherie L. Morrison, PhD — David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Crystal Morton, PhD — Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis
Cindy Moss, PhD — Discovery Education
Clare Muhoro, PhD — Towson University
Catherine J. Murphy, PhD, FRSC, NAS — Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
J. Renee Navarro, MD, PharmD — University of California, San Francisco
Alecia Nero, MD — University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Gayla Orr, PhD — Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jessica Oster, PhD — Vanderbilt University
Jenny Ostos, PhD — John Jay Science and Engineering Academy
Linda Ott, PhD — Michigan Technological University
Kelli Palmer, PhD — University of Texas at Dallas
Madeline Palmer — STEMpowered, Inc.
Karen R. Pearson, PhD — Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY
Erin C. Pettit, PhD — University of Alaska Fairbanks
Amelia Phillips, PhD — Highline College
Logeswari Ponnusamy, DVM, MVSc — Texas Tech University, The Institute of Environmental and Human Health
Angelia Reid-Griffin, PhD — University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Anne M. Robertson, PhD — University of Pittsburgh
Deborah M. Settoon, PE — Shell
Tolou Shokuhfar, PhD — University of Illinois at Chicago
Anahita Sidhwa — Brookhaven College
Besma Smida, PhD — Purdue University Calumet
Pamela Spencer, PhD, DABT — The Dow Chemical Company
Louise Stark, PhD — University of the Pacific
Jennifer Switkes, PhD — California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Aimée Tomlinson, PhD — University of North Georgia
Lori Troxel, PhD, PE, FASCE — Vanderbilt University
Tommie Yvette Turner, PhD — Harris-Stowe State University
Janet Walkow, PhD — The University of Texas at Austin
Mei Wei, PhD — University of Connecticut
Anita C. White, PhD — Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Holly Wichman, PhD — University of Idaho
Quing Zhu, PhD — University of Connecticut
Jennifer L. Zirnheld, PhD — University at Buffalo, SUNY
