Annual Awards for Women in Science and Medicine
Click Quick Link on right side of this page for info on various awards and deadlines.

RAISE Project Dedicated to Recognizing the Achievements of Women in Science and Medicine, the goal of the RAISE project is to increase the status of women in science and medicine through enhanced recognition and rewards. A national award clearinghouse has been created to facilitate nomination of women for appropriate achievement awards in science, engineering, and medicine. 

Want to know how many women receive NIH funds? The average size of their grants?
NIH has created a website on the involvement of women in its various grant
programs! see:
Sex/Gender in the Biomedical Science Workforce
http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/policy/sex_gender/q_a.htm

Equitable Rewards and Recognition for Women The Association for Women in Science (AWIS) has been awarded a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation for a new project: "Advancing Ways of Awarding Recognition in Disciplinary Societies (AWARDS)." AWARDS is designed to create a sustainable framework for assuring progress towards more equitable rewards and recognition for women and members of underrepresented groups in a wide range of scientific communities. To read more about the project, visit www.awis.org. [AWIS Washington Wire Aug. 2009 issue II]

Women Receive Almost a Third of The Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers President Obama named this year's recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), touted in the press release as "the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on young professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers." The winners are selected by nine federal departments and agencies and receive up to five years of grant funding. Thirty-one women will be amongst the 100 who are to receive this highly coveted award at a White House ceremony in the fall. [AWIS Washington Wire Aug. 2009 issue II]

Evaluating Science or Evaluating Gender? On the surface it seems women are receiving awards at increasing rates due to women-only awards. However, women are 65 percent less likely to win an award if the reviewing committee chair is a man. Between 1997 and 2009 the American Physical Society gave out 464 individual awards that were first reviewed by a committee. Only 20 awards were given to women physicists. Women don't get the prize [posted June 24, 2009]

Apply for AAUW Fellowships, Grants and Schlorships Know a woman who needs funding for graduate school? Is there a girl-serving project in your area looking for resources? It's application time for AAUW's fellowships and grants. Applications for all programs, including those posted on AAUW's branch and state Local Scholarship Clearinghouse pilot program, are available. Deadlines and eligibility requirements for all programs are posted on the AAUW  website.  [posted Oct. 2, 2009]

P.E.O. Scholar Awards (PSA) was established in 1991 to provide substantial awards to women of the United States and Canada who are pursuing advanced degrees or are engaged in advanced study and research at an accredited institution.

2004 Was a Record Year in the Number of Women Awarded Nobel Prizes. In 2004 three women (including Linda Buck, who received her Ph.D. from UT Southwestern) were awarded Nobel prizes in separate categories: Physiology or Medicine, Literature, and Peace.  Between 1901 and 2003 only 11 women were awarded out 494 prizes in Physics, Chemistry, and Physiology or Medicine (~2%).  When the Nobel Prizes in Literature and Peace are included the numbers are little better at 31 out of 705 (~4%).  In his Opening Address of 2004 Awards Ceremony, Professor Bengt Samuelsson talked about the historic paucity of awards going to women.  Link to the opening address: http://nobelprize.org/award_ceremonies/ceremony_sthlm/speeches/opening-2004.html  posted: December 2004