Educ. Foundation

Text Box: environment for girls has improved. (Adapted from comments by Barbara Paulson, AAUW Oregon State EF Chair.) Established in 1989, the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award honors an individual, project, organization, or institution for outstanding contributions to equity and education for women and girls. The award is given for a broad range of activities including classroom teaching, educational and research contributions, and legal and legislative work in equity for women and girls. While the award focuses on education, the recipient need not be an educator.

Text Box: Nominations must be postmarked by November 1, 2008. The awardee will be notified by April 2009. The award includes an honorarium of $5,000 plus travel expenses to attend the AAUW National Convention. The awardee must personally accept the award at the Foundation Night banquet. The Ophelia Project, Penn State Erie received the 2007 Eleanor Roosevelt Fund Award. For questions or how to make a contribution to the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund, please call 202/728-7602 or e-mail foundation@aauw.org

Text Box: Twenty years ago, AAUW members created the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund so that AAUW could research and take action on important issues that affect women and girls. The resulting research, How Schools Shortchange Girls, exposed unintended bias against girls in the classroom and its negative effect on their academic achievement. With that report, AAUW created a national dialogue and recommended actions to stop practices that discriminate against our daughters. Did AAUW make a difference with that report? Absolutely! Because of AAUW's research and action, the school

By Education Foundation Chair Jan Rounds

donjan@peak.org

2008 Marks the 20th Anniversary of the Eleanor Roosevelt Fund!

2008 AAUW Senior Woman of the Year Recognition Award

Text Box: Each year OSU selects a graduating woman student to receive the AAUW Senior Woman Recognition Award at the Student Recognition and Awards Event in May. She receives a keepsake and a one year membership in AAUW. This year the recipient is Lori Chen. Lori is from Clackamas and is graduating in only three years with a 4.00 cumulative OSU grade point average in Human Development &

Text Box: Family Science with a minor in Mandarin Chinese. Last summer Lori participated in a study abroad program in Angers, France. She had two rigorous and intense internships involving children. One was as a Child Protective Worker’s Aide with the Department of Human Services, and the second was at an orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Her internships became life changing experiences that solidified her interests in international

Text Box: adoption work with a long-term goal of opening her own orphanage in a place where the world really needs it. In addition to children Lori lists tennis as a passion. Lori is a Waldo Cummings Award winner this year as well as a Drucilla Shepard Smith Award winner and will attend graduate school next year. AAUW congratulates Lori on her achievement!