Our Crowdfunding Groups
Thank you so much again for your support of the WINS crowdfunding campaign! Because of you, we were able to reach 145% of our fundraising goal – WOW! We are planning to put this funding towards expanding WINS and providing additional aid and programming for our students. Your support has been overwhelming and we remain grateful for our wonderful WINS community, family, and friends!
Here’s what we have been up to - WINS students have been busy studying and taking finals this week. As the school year is finishing up, our office is preparing to see an amazing group of WINS seniors off at graduation. We’ve also completed selection and extended offers to our largest new class of WINS students who we look forward to meeting this summer during orientation.
As our way of thanking you, our students will be reaching out this summer to make phone calls, write notes, send videos, and connect with our donors. If you selected one of these perks when you made your gift, please keep an eye out for more correspondence from us in the coming months.
Thank you all again for helping further the mission of Women in Natural Sciences!
Elizabeth Morgan
Director, WINS Program
Thank you for your support of the Women in Natural Sciences Program! Below is a video some of our WINS students made yesterday to thank you and gear up for the last week of our campaign.
Hook'em!
Thank you so much for your support of Women in Natural Sciences! Below is a week two campaign update video made by some of our WINS students.
Thanks again and Hook 'Em!
Our sincerest thank you for your support of the WINS program! Fun Fact: Dr. Rudin received her bachelor's degree and Ph.D in mathematics from UT Austin in 1944 and 1949 respectively. She became one of the world's leading set-theoretic topologists, and she was the first person awarded the Grace Chisholm Young Professorship in 1981!
For your generosity, you will you will receive a handwritten thank you note from a WINS student. Fun Fact: Dr. Herzenberg is a physicist who investigated "moon materials," and she has authored two books about the history of women in science. Her first book, "Women Scientists from Antiquity to the Present" features over 2500 women in science from the past 6,000 years, and it has greatly contributed to more research about the history of women in science!
For a gift of $100 or more, you will receive the previously mentioned perk and a thank you video from our WINS students. Fun Fact: Dr. Villa-Komaroff is a molecular biologist who pioneered recombinant DNA techniques in the 1970's. Her research produced insulin from bacteria, helping the treatment of diabetes!
For a gift of $250 or more, you will receive the previously mentioned perks plus a thank you call from a WINS student. Fun Fact: Dr. Hurd is a neuroscientist researching the effects of drugs on brain development. Her research was featured on the cover of Time Magazine in May 25, 2015!
For your generosity, you will receive the previously mentioned perks and recognition on the WINS website. Fun Fact: Dr. Wong-Staal is a molecular biologist and virologist, and in 1985 she became the first researcher to clone HIV. Her work has led to HIV blood tests and genetic mapping of the virus. She was also named the Institute for Scientific Information's top woman scientist of the 1980s!
For a gift of $1,000 or more, you will receive all previously mentioned perks plus an invitation to a fall WINS Welcome Event. Fun Fact: Dr. Ochoa is a physicist and engineer, and she has flown to space four separate times. She is the current director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, and it was announced earlier this year that Dr. Ochoa will be inducted into the US Astronaut Hall of Fame!
For a gift of $2,000 or more, you will receive all previously mentioned perks plus an exclusive meet and greet with WINS staff and a small group of WINS students. Fun Fact: Dr. Johnson is a mathematician and physicist who started her work at NASA as a "computer" by making and reviewing calculations. She went on to work with the Space Task Group, calculating orbital flight paths, trajectory analysis, and other research. Her work with NASA helped send John Glenn and other astronauts into space. Katherine Johnson's (as well as Mary Jackson's and Dorothy Vaughn's) work with NASA is depicted in the book and film Hidden Figures!
For a gift of $12,000 or more, you will receive the previously mentioned perks plus a WINS student scholarship named in your honor. Fun Fact: Marie Curie was a chemist and physicist, and she is known for her extensive work with radioactive materials. In fact, Marie Curie's notebooks will remain radioactive for another 1500 years! In 1903, Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she was awarded a second Nobel Prize in 1911. She is currently the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes.
