In honor of Women’s History Month, we are celebrating by highlighting unique scholarships for women. One way to honor past achievements of women is to take advantage of opportunities awarded for your future, which would not be available to you today without their hard work!
- Priscilla Carney Jones Scholarship: Open to female-identifying undergrads majoring in chemistry, Award: $1,500, Deadline: May 1st
Contact: wcc@acs.org - NWSA Graduate Scholarship: Open to female-identifying students who are NWSA members, Award: $1,000, Deadline: May 1st
- Concrete Rose Scholarship Award: Open to female-identifying BIPOC undergrads, Award: $800, Deadline: May 24th, Contact: support@theglobalscholarship.org
- Out To Innovate Scholarship for LGBTQ+ STEM Students: Open to LGBTQ+ undergrad/grad students pursuing a degree in STEM, Award: $5,000, Deadline: June 10th, Contact: scholarships@noglstp.org
We are also highlighting the contributions women have made in STEM in honor of Women's History Month. The Nobel Prize and the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel have been awarded to women 65 times between 1901 and 2023.
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2023, For discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.
- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023, For experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022, Carolyn R. Bertozzi: For the development of click chemistry and bioorthogonal chemistry.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020, Emmanuelle Charpentier: For the development of a method for genome editing.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020, Jennifer A. Doudna: For the development of a method for genome editing.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2018, Frances H. Arnold: For the directed evolution of enzymes.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009, Ada E. Yonath: For studies of the structure and function of the ribosome.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1964, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin: For her determinations by X-ray techniques of the structures of important biochemical substances.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1935, Irène Joliot-Curie: In recognition of their synthesis of new radioactive elements.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911, Marie Curie, née Sklodowska: In recognition of her services to the advancement of chemistry by the discovery of the elements radium and polonium, by the isolation of radium and the study of the nature and compounds of this remarkable element.