Giving Circle Awards: And the Winners Are...

 

The Women of Excellence gave out $45,500 in its first Giving Circle awards program to eight winners this year:

• Mathematics Teaching Classroom Manipulatives will work to improve the preparation of education majors teaching elementary and middle school math. The goal is to break the cycle of those who believe women cannot succeed at mathematics. $2,500.

• Care for the Whole Family provides baby changing tables in the Gallagher Student Center restrooms to better support  student-parents who make up 26 percent of undergraduate college students nationwide. $1,204.

• Women’s Issues in the Workplace Summit and Etiquette Dinner is a half-day education program that addresses the challenges women face in the professional world and culminates in an etiquette dinner with a professional speaker. $4,260.

• Creating Relationships of Justice and Care: Transforming the Sexual Culture at Xavier is an initiative to empower undergraduate students to create a more just and caring sexual culture on campus through the core course Theological Foundations (Theo 111). $9,950.

• Women Who Shaped Modern Physics will create a new physics core course and lab that focuses on women physicists and their areas of research. $10,000.

• 1 in 4 Day: Xavier Students Against Sexual assault will work to address issues of rape and sexual assault on college campuses nationwide by planning a workshop and promotional event in November that includes marketing materials and a speaker. $5,200.

• Interfaith Training on Dialogue and Service for a Religiously Diverse World will address the spiritual needs of students by offering two-day Interfaith Youth Core training sessions. $4,700.

• Celebration of Women in Psychology: A Speaker Series will host three prominent female psychologists next year who will present on women’s issues. $7,705.