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Anonymous
$250
Apr 21, 2017
Sumaya
Saati
Undisclosed Amount
Apr 21, 2017
Rachel
Obimah
$25
Apr 21, 2017
Marsh
Reardon
$50
Apr 21, 2017
Lesley
riley
$20
Apr 21, 2017
Jyesha
Alexander
$17
Apr 21, 2017
Julia
Serna
$150
Apr 21, 2017
Judy
Ramsey
Undisclosed Amount
Apr 21, 2017
Anonymous
$100
Apr 21, 2017
elizabeth
Morgan
$100
Apr 21, 2017
Deborah
Blackburn
Undisclosed Amount
Apr 21, 2017
Amy
Beebe
Undisclosed Amount
Apr 21, 2017
Adiba
Oiyshi
Undisclosed Amount
Apr 21, 2017
kathleen walsh
In Honor of Sammie Walsh and the other WINS girls
$250
Apr 21, 2017
Rahul
Sreenivasan
$100
Apr 20, 2017
Anonymous
$100
Apr 20, 2017
Alexis
Vu
$5
Apr 20, 2017
Dan
Smith
$100
Apr 20, 2017
Uma
Vaidyanathan
$10
Apr 20, 2017
Lucia
Guerrero
$5
Apr 20, 2017
Megan
North
Undisclosed Amount
Apr 20, 2017
Jeff
Biehle
$100
Apr 19, 2017
Peter
Tsan
$250
Apr 19, 2017
Anonymous
$500
Apr 19, 2017
Natasha Viteri
In Honor of WINS for life
$25
Apr 17, 2017
$25
Mary Ellen Rudin
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!
$50
Caroline Herzenberg
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!
$100
Lydia Villa-Komaroff
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!
$250
Yasmin Hurd
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!
$500
Flossie Wong-Staal
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!
$1,000
Ellen Ochoa
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!
$2,000
Katherine Johnson
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!
$12,000
Marie Curie
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.