{"id":17,"date":"2012-04-20T15:04:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T19:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newwww.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=17"},"modified":"2022-08-15T11:20:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T15:20:38","slug":"two-earn-luce-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/two-earn-luce-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Earn Luce Scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/LaurenErica.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/06\/LaurenErica.jpg\" alt=\"Luce Scholarship winners Lauren Wierenga and Erica Dominic\" width=\"250\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a>Class of 2013 members\u00a0<strong>Lauren Wierenga\u00a0<\/strong>(left) and\u00a0<strong>Erica Dominic<\/strong>\u00a0have been selected to receive prestigious Clare Boothe Luce Scholarships for Women in Science and Engineering. The scholarships will cover tuition for each quarter they are enrolled on campus during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years.<\/p>\n<p>Erica Dominic, from Farmington Hills, Mich., is pursuing a double major in mathematics and English. She is a teaching assistant for a calculus class and works at the College\u2019s Math and Physics Academic Resource Center as a math peer consultant. Through the College\u2019s Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service-Learning, she tutors elementary and middle school students in math. During summer 2010, Erica participated in a math Research Experience for Undergraduates at Michigan State University. During the upcoming fall and winter terms, she\u2019ll study at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Wierenga, from Grand Rapids, is pursuing a biology major and math minor with a concentration in biophysics. She is co-leader of Kalamazoo\u2019s student organization Sisters in Science, and is a member of the Women\u2019s Ultimate Frisbee team. During summer 2010, she interned at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Md. This summer, she will intern for nine weeks in the Princeton University molecular biology department. In the fall, she will attend Kalamazoo\u2019s Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s University in Budapest, Hungary. E\u00f6tv\u00f6s is Hungary\u2019s premier science and liberal arts university.<\/p>\n<p>The Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) program is funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hluce.org\/\">Henry Luce Foundation<\/a>. Since its first grants in 1989, CBL has become the single most significant source of private support for women in science, mathematics and engineering. Thus far, the program has supported more than 1,500 women.<\/p>\n<p>Clare Boothe Luce was a playwright, journalist, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, and the first woman elected to Congress from Connecticut. In her bequest establishing this program, she sought \u201cto encourage women to enter, study, graduate, and teach\u201d in science, mathematics and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Kalamazoo College was invited to apply by the Henry Luce Foundation, and was selected to receive the scholarships based on evidence of its strength in science and engineering, and of its commitment to Mrs. Luce\u2019s vision of increasing the representation of women in these areas. Three Kalamazoo students received CBL scholarships in 2002, and three more in 2003. Additionally, Associate Professor of Mathematics\u00a0<strong>Michele Intermont<\/strong>\u00a0received a Clare Boothe Luce scholarship during her graduate school days at University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Ind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class of 2013 members\u00a0Lauren Wierenga\u00a0(left) and\u00a0Erica Dominic\u00a0have been selected to receive prestigious Clare Boothe Luce Scholarships for Women in Science and Engineering. The scholarships will cover tuition for each quarter they are enrolled on campus during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years. Erica Dominic, from Farmington Hills, Mich., is pursuing a double major in mathematics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[30,52,51,29,24,38],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students","tag-awards","tag-biology","tag-math","tag-scholarships","tag-sciences","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>Two Earn Luce Scholarships - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Class of 2013 members\u00a0Lauren Wierenga\u00a0(left) and\u00a0Erica Dominic\u00a0have been selected to receive prestigious Clare Boothe Luce Scholarships for Women in\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\r\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/two-earn-luce-scholarships\/\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\r\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Two Earn Luce Scholarships - 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The scholarships will cover tuition for each quarter they are enrolled on campus during the 2011-12 and 2012-13 academic years.<\/p>\n<p>Erica Dominic, from Farmington Hills, Mich., is pursuing a double major in mathematics and English. She is a teaching assistant for a calculus class and works at the College\u2019s Math and Physics Academic Resource Center as a math peer consultant. Through the College\u2019s Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service-Learning, she tutors elementary and middle school students in math. During summer 2010, Erica participated in a math Research Experience for Undergraduates at Michigan State University. During the upcoming fall and winter terms, she\u2019ll study at the University of Aberdeen, in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>Lauren Wierenga, from Grand Rapids, is pursuing a biology major and math minor with a concentration in biophysics. She is co-leader of Kalamazoo\u2019s student organization Sisters in Science, and is a member of the Women\u2019s Ultimate Frisbee team. During summer 2010, she interned at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Md. This summer, she will intern for nine weeks in the Princeton University molecular biology department. In the fall, she will attend Kalamazoo\u2019s Budapest Semester in Cognitive Science at E\u00f6tv\u00f6s University in Budapest, Hungary. E\u00f6tv\u00f6s is Hungary\u2019s premier science and liberal arts university.<\/p>\n<p>The Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) program is funded by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hluce.org\/\">Henry Luce Foundation<\/a>. Since its first grants in 1989, CBL has become the single most significant source of private support for women in science, mathematics and engineering. Thus far, the program has supported more than 1,500 women.<\/p>\n<p>Clare Boothe Luce was a playwright, journalist, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, and the first woman elected to Congress from Connecticut. In her bequest establishing this program, she sought \u201cto encourage women to enter, study, graduate, and teach\u201d in science, mathematics and engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Kalamazoo College was invited to apply by the Henry Luce Foundation, and was selected to receive the scholarships based on evidence of its strength in science and engineering, and of its commitment to Mrs. Luce\u2019s vision of increasing the representation of women in these areas. Three Kalamazoo students received CBL scholarships in 2002, and three more in 2003. Additionally, Associate Professor of Mathematics\u00a0<strong>Michele Intermont<\/strong>\u00a0received a Clare Boothe Luce scholarship during her graduate school days at University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Ind.<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18015,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/18015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}