Anita Borg Scholarships Winners 2006

This year's Anita Borg Scholarship winners
4/07/2006 06:31:00 AM

by April Yu and Jennifer Bostrom, University Programs

It's that time of year when we happily announce the winners of the 2006 Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship. We're awarding 19 $10,000 scholarships to these outstanding young women -- graduate and undergraduate students who are completing degrees in computer science and related fields -- with our congratulations:

Brianna Bethel, University of Colorado - Boulder
G. Ayorkor Mills - Tettey, Carnegie Mellon University
Gillian Rachael Hayes, Georgia Institute of Technology
Himabindu Pucha, Purdue University

Karen Fullam, University of Texas at Austin
Kristen Walcott, University of Virginia
Kristina Chodorow, New York University
Laura Rouse, Georgia Institute of Technology
Marta Magdalena Luczynska, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Megan Olsen, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Michele Banko, University of Washington
Neven Abou Gazala, University of Pittsburgh
Parisa Michelle Tabriz, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Rebecca Nancy Nesson, Harvard University
Shana Kay Watters, University of Minnesota
Sharmishtaa Seshamani, Johns Hopkins University
Soumi Sinha, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Tracy Westeyn, Georgia Institute of Technology
Vinithra Varadharajan, Carnegie Mellon University
And we also recognize these 28 highly qualified finalists, who will receive $1,000 awards from us:

Alicia Avelon Permell, Michigan Tech University
Anagha Mudigonda, Polytechnic University New York
Anna Tikhonova, University of California, Davis
Annie (Hsin-Wen) Liu, University of Washington
Ashima Kapur, Carnegie Mellon University
Cindy Rubio Gonzalez, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Delphine Nain, Georgia Institute of Technology
Divya Arora, Princeton University
Emily Grace Christiansen, University of Minnesota-Morris
Emily Shen, Stanford University
Erika Chin, University of Virginia
Eva Mok, University of California, Berkeley
Evelyn Mintarno, Stanford University
Gina Upperman, Rice University
Hayley Nicole Iben, University of California, Berkeley
Jiayue He, Princeton University
Jing Chen, University of Pennsylvania
Laureen Lam, San Jose State University
Lingyun Zhang, University of California, San Diego
Lu Xiao, Pennsylvania State University
Meeta Sharma Gupta, Harvard University
Moushumi Sharmin, Marquette University
Neha Rungta, Brigham Young University
Rachel Weinstein, Stanford University
Sunny Consolvo, University of Washington
Tanya Lee Ann Crenshaw, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Valerie Hajdik, Texas A&M University
Xiaonan Zhao, Northwestern University