 | Among this year's YUWO scholarship winners were: (seated, from left) Pornwadee Graves, Dorothy Mack, April Bowe, (standing, from left) Gui Ying Wu, Susan Farricielli, YUWO chair Michaela Hauser-Wagner, Larisa Masiarova, Susan Jackson-Mack, Debra Catalano Falvey, Hillary Marino, Maria Alma and Francine Donji. |
The Yale University Women's Organization (YUWO) has awarded 16 scholarships totaling $17,500 to Yale-affiliated women for use in the 2004-2005 academic year.
The scholarships are awarded annually to female Yale affiliates whose formal educations have been interrupted or delayed and who wish to resume their studies or to enhance or change careers.
Two women were given special scholarships. Susan Farricelli, who is studying computer aided design at Paradigm in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, received the Gustave and Carol Lynn Sirot Award. Susan Jackson-Mack, now studying for a Master of Social Work degree at Springfield College, won the Magee Fenn Award, which honors the late wife of John Fenn, clinical professor of surgery (gastroenterology), who was a longtime YUWO member.
The other recipients, their fields of study and the schools they are attending are: Maria Alma, nursing, Bridgeport Hospital Nursing School; Brenda Bearce, nursing, Windham Vocational Tech School; April Bowe, accounting, Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU): Francine Dondji, business management, Thomson Education Direct; Debra Catalano Falvey, information and library science, SCSU; Patricia Fugal, M.S. in research and statistics, SCSU; Pornwadee Graves, accounting and taxation, Quinnipiac University; Yvonne Hammonds, social work, SCSU; Tara Jacqueline Harris, pre-med, Yale University Special Students Program; Dorothy Mack, pre-nursing, Gateway Community College; Hillary Marino, associate of science, Clarkson University; Larisa Masiarova, clinical exercise physiology, SCSU; Dana Volstorff, nursing, Yale School of Nursing; and Gui Ying Wu, marriage and family therapy, SCSU.
For applications or information on 2005-2006 scholarships, contact Michaela Hauser-Wagner, YUWO Scholarship Committee chair, at (203) 272-1842. Additional information can be found on the YUWO website at www.yale.edu/yuwo/scholarships.html.
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