The Association for Women Faculty

Awards

Marisa Menchola for her poster: Development and evaluation of educational
material on Alzheimer?s disease: A pilot study with Hispanic elderly

Jordan Stein for her poster: Post 9/11 Effects On Criminal Prison Sentencing

Each student won an award of $200 and was publicly acknowledged at the Graduate Student Research Showcase this past homecoming weekend. These two posters were chosen from posters across all disciplines.Thank you to the AWF Graduate Student Subcommittee who organized AWF participation in this event, graduate students: Kali Van Campen, Jessica Whitehead. Also, thank you to the AWF faculty judges who participated: Jarita Holbrook, Malcah Yeager and Geta LeSeur.

Olga Lucia Cuellar-Gomez, MA candidate, Latin American Studies,Colombian Coffee Produced by Women: Marketing Strategy and Local Empowerment. Society for Applied Anthropology.

Margaret Wilder, Assistant professor, Latin American Studies, New Geographies of Climate Change and Environmental Governance on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Institutions, Environmental Organizations, and Local Communities in the Binational Colorado River and Delta Region, Assocation of American Geographers

Anna Ochoa O'Leary, Adjunct lecturer, Mexican American Studies and Research Cente, Mujeres en el Cruce: Mapping Family Separation/Reunification at the Intersection of Migrant Mobility and Border
Enforcement, American Anthropological Society

Thank you to the AWF travel grant award committee: Beth Alpert Nakhai and
Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante for their time and effort to coordinate these
awards.

Beth Mitchneck, Associate Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences