100 Inspiring Women in STEM Awards

“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