2005 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Winners Announced
PALO ALTO, Calif. and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 8,
2005 – The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and Google Inc.
today announced the winners of the 2005 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship.
The Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship was established to honor the
legacy of Anita Borg and her efforts to encourage women to pursue careers
in computer science and technology. The award is a $10,000 scholarship
for outstanding female undergraduate and graduate students completing
their degrees in computer science and related fields.
"Anita would be proud to see these young, talented women rewarded for their dedication
and achievement," said Dr. Telle Whitney, President and CEO of the Anita Borg
Institute. "Together with Google's support, we will continue to honor Anita's
vision of finding exceptional women in computer science and technology."
"It is an honor to team up with the institute and continue Anita's efforts to
support and encourage women in computer science and technology," said Alan Eustace,
Vice President of Engineering & Research, Google. "Google was itself born of
college research and we look forward to the achievements of these outstanding
young women."
For the 2005-2006 academic year, the institute received 115 applications
from students at 80 different universities across the country. Eligible
students must be going into their final year of study at a US university
or college. Selection criteria includes academic performance, letters
of recommendation, answers to short essay questions and interviews with
members of the review committee. After three rounds of review, the committee
selected 23 finalists, who were then interviewed by phone.
We are pleased to award ten $10,000 scholarships to the following students:
Shiri Azenkot, Pomona College
Lucia Ballard, Brown University
Preethi Bhat, Carnegie Mellon University
Barbara Engelhardt, University of California at Berkeley
Susan Hohenberger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ariadna Font Llitjós, Carnegie Mellon University
Moriah McClanahan, Brigham Young University
Kristine Nagel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Nithya Ramanathan, University of California at Los Angeles
Jenny Yuen, University of Washington
$1,000 awards will go to the 13 other finalists:
F. Zeynep Altinbas, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Himani Apte, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Caitlin Holman, University of California at Santa Barbara
Esther Iserovich, New York University
Agnes Lo, Stanford University
Emily Navarro, University of California at Irvine
Irene Ong, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Bo Pang, Cornell University
Karolina Sarnowska, Mississippi State University
Gwendolyn Stockman, Carnegie Mellon University
Stefanie Tomko, Carnegie Mellon University
Julie Tung, Stanford University
Julie Zhuo, Stanford University
All 23 scholars were invited to Mountain View to meet each other, tour
Google and participate in a workshop on educational and career issues
of women in computer science. The day will also include discussions with
Google engineers and executives, representatives from the Anita Borg
Institute for Women and Technology and former scholarship winners.
About Anita Borg:
Though Dr. Borg lost her battle with cancer in April 2003, the technology
industry continues to support her vision for a future where women's voices,
ideas and spirits influence how and why technology is developed. Anita
sought to revolutionize the way we think about technology and devoted
much of her adult life to dismantling barriers that keep women and minorities
from entering computing and technology fields.
In 1987, seeing only a handful of women at a systems conference, she
started a modest email list-an "online community" before the term even
existed-and called it Systers. Today Systers has 3,000 members from all
over the world. In 1994, Anita co-founded the Grace Hopper Celebration
of Women in Computing Conference to bring the research and career interests
of women in computing to the forefront. And In 1997, Anita founded the
Institute for Women and Technology to further increase women's impact
on technology and the positive impact of technology on women. Today her
legacy lives on through the lives she touched and the Anita Borg Institute
for Women and Technology. For more information see: www.anitaborg.org.
