Dear Fellowship and Grant Alumnae:
We would love to hear about your accomplishments and activities since receiving an AAUW award! Please take a few minutes to let us know about your ongoing research, recent publications, conference and meeting presentations, academic or professional promotions documentaries, or other work.
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Also, please visit AAUW's Directory of Fellowship and Grant Recipients to meet recent recipients who have pursued their dream of obtaining a graduate degree or making an impact in their community with an AAUW fellowship or grant. Contact the Educational Foundation at 202/728-7602 or foundation@aauw.org to reach an award recipient.
ALUMNAE SPOTLIGHT
Lillian Karambu Ringera, a 2003–04 International Fellow, received her doctorate in human communication studies from the University of Denver. She founded International Peace Initiatives, an NGO dedicated to supporting African grassroots leaders and movements that mitigate the effects of war, poverty, and disease. In 2007, she ran for Parliament in Kenya, vying to represent North Imenti, a constituency that has never had a woman representative or even had a woman run for the office. Ringera faced enormous challenges, including threats of violence, but she finished in sixth place out of 16 candidates and vows to continue to fight in future elections.
In 2005, AAUW member Claire Passantino was awarded a two-year Community Action Grant to implement her Let’s Read Math project, which helps children explore mathematical ideas through children’s literature and fun, math-related activities. Since that time, the project has continued to flourish and has reached 12,000 children with math education activities. In 2008, Passantino received the Susan Nensteil Humanitarian Award from AAUW of Pennsylvania for her Let’s Read Math program and its work to increase children’s excitement about math concepts. 
Thanks to funding received through the Selected Professions Fellowship program in 2006–07, Gayle Hagler has completed her doctoral thesis in the field of environmental engineering. Her research focused on air pollution and the effect that human technology is having on the natural environment. To study these effects, she conducted field research on the Greenland Ice Sheet, measuring particulate matter in the air and snow. Hagler has accepted a position with the Environmental Protection Agency and will be working as an environmental engineer in the Air Pollution Prevention and Control Division.
Furaha Mramba, a 2005–06 International Fellow, earned her doctorate in entomology from Kansas State University and returned to her home country of Tanzania, where she currently works for the Ministry of Livestock. She also organizes groups of women and girls and teaches them to raise cattle, because the milk is vital for the health of the women’s families.
Sara Norvell, a 1997 Career Development Grant recipient, was awarded a full scholarship to Wisconsin Medical School and is now in her final year of residency in anesthesiology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Norvell, who was a single parent and was working as a nurse when she received her grant, credits the award with giving her the support she needed to achieve her goal of becoming a doctor.
Read additional stories about fellowship and grant awardees in the AAUW Dialog blog series, Following the Fellows
