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Support Future Female Scientists by Investing in the WINS Program

$17,504
145%
Raised toward our $12,000 Goal
97 Donors
Project has ended
Project ended on April 22, at 09:00 AM CDT
Project Owners

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
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$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!

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$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!

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$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!

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$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!

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$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!

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$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!

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$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!

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$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.

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