Four Women Begin Semester On Two-Year Luce Awards

8-20-97
University Park, Pa. -- Two undergraduates and two graduates in the Women in the Sciences and Engineering Institute at Penn State will begin their studies this fall on two-year awards, which they won last spring in the first year of competition for the Penn State WISE Clare Boothe Luce Program.

More than 140 women in science and engineering at Penn State competed for the awards, which include tuition, fees and a living stipend, and are part of the national Clare Boothe Luce Program "to encourage women to enter, study, graduate, and teach" in science and engineering.

Undergraduate scholarship winners are Kristina Renee Mann and Monica I. Woodward, who are both University Scholars.

Mann, who is from Canton, Ohio, will be a senior in chemical engineering this fall and plans to go to graduate school and pursue a career in chemical engineering and design in pharmaceuticals.

Woodward from Newark, Del. will be a junior in material science and engineering this fall with an option in polymer science and a minors in chemistry, Spanish and geography. She plans to go to graduate school in either materials science or biomedical engineering.

Graduate students receiving fellowships are Amanda Marie Dumin and Michaeleen L. Pacholski, both of State College.

Dumin is a doctoral student in ecology with a B.S. degree in wildlife biology from the University of Montana and an M.S. degree in zoology from the University of Arkansas. Her current research is focused on the influence of habitat disturbance on forest bird and salamander communities.

Pacholski is a doctoral student in chemistry with a B.S. degree in chemistry from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her current research project is "Molecular Imaging of Cells and Combinatorial Library Analysis Using Time-of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry."

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Contact: Katie Rung, WISE Institute (814) 865-3342; Email: exg1@psu.edu