The Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship, established by Google in 2004, honors Dr. Anita Borg, a computer science pioneer who dedicated her life to changing the way we think about diversity and technology. Now in its seventh year, her namesake scholarship continues to support under and post-graduate women completing degrees in computer science and related areas, recognizing and encouraging the next generation of technical leaders and role models. This year, we’re awarding 62 scholars and finalists in the U.S., 17 in Canada and 91 in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. In addition to receiving academic scholarships, all of our winners will be invited to participate in all-expenses-paid networking retreats featuring workshops, speakers, panelists, breakout sessions and social activities at Google offices. See below for a full list of winners and the institution they currently attend. In the coming months, we’ll be announcing winners for the Australia and New Zealand Scholarships. And we’ve introduced some other big changes for 2010: for the first time, we’re awarding Anita Borg Scholarships to students in Sub-Saharan Africa and to high school seniors in the U.S. Later this year, we plan to introduce the first-ever Anita Borg Scholarship in Asia. For more information on the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship and other Google scholarship opportunities, visit our scholarships page . Congratulations, 2010 Scholars and Finalists! U.S. Scholars Aditi Goyal , Stanford University Adrienne Felt , University of California-Berkeley Angela Oguna , University of Kansas Main Campus Anna Molosky , Carnegie Mellon University* Bonnie Kirkpatrick , University of California-Berkeley Boya Xie , East Carolina University Carla Villoria , Texas A & M University Carrine Johnson , Massachusetts Institute of Technology* Daniela Rosner , University of California-Berkeley Erika DeBenedictis , California Institute of Technology* Fan Zhang , Massachusetts Institute of Technology Floraine Grabler , University of California-Berkeley Jill Woelfer , University of Washington Karthika Periyathambi , Stanford University Kristi Morton , University of Washington Kyle Rector , Oregon State University Lauren Stephens , Massachusetts Institute of Technology* Lydia Chilton , University of Washington Madeline Smith , Ithaca College Maithilee Kunda , Georgia Institute of Technology Micol Marchetti-Bowick , Stanford University Moira Burke , Carnegie Mellon University Nalini Vasudevan , Columbia University in the City of New York Natasha Nesiba , New Mexico State University* Samantha Ainsley , Columbia University in the City of New York Sheri Williamson , George Mason University Shilpa Nadimpall i, Tufts University Sneha Popley , Texas Christian University Svitlana Volkova , Kansas State University Therese Avitabile , Brown University Valeria Fedyk , Stanford University* Victoria Nneji , Columbia University in the City of New York* *High school senior — planned matriculation at university listed U.S. Finalists Adriana Lopez , New York University Anne Neilsen , University of Nebraska - Lincoln Cassandra Helms , Colorado State University Christina Brandt , Cornell University Emily Shen , Massachusetts Institute of Technology Esha Nerurkar , University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Farzana Rahman , Marquette University Jana Zujovic , Northwestern University Jessie Li , Massachusetts Institute of Technology Juliet Bernstein , University of Washington Lirida Kercelli , Carnegie Mellon University Marayam Ramezani , DePaul University Maryam Aziz , Montclair State University Michal Rabani , Massachusetts Institute of Technology Michelle Burroughs , Carnegie Mellon University Minlan Yu , Princeton University Miray Kas , Carnegie Mellon University Natalie Yudin , Rice University Pallavi Yerramilli , University of Pennsylvania Rachael Harding , Carnegie Mellon University Rachelle Fuhrer , University of California, San Diego Razieh Nokhbeh Zaeem , University of Texas at Austin Riddhi Mittal , Stanford University Sanjana Prasain , University of Washington Sonia Haiduc , Wayne State University Wei Chen , Carnegie Mellon University Yang Shan , Carnegie Mellon University Yi Gu , University of Memphis Yinian Qi , Purdue University Main Campus Zeinab Abbassi , Columbia University in the City of New York Canada Scholars Allaa Hilal , University Of Waterloo Barbara Macdonald , University Of Waterloo Dana Jansens , Carleton University Ioana Burcea , University Of Toronto Michelle Annett , University Of Alberta Canada Finalists Audrey Corbeil Therrien , University Of Sherbrooke Constance Adsett , Dalhousie University Inmar Givoni , University Of Toronto Jasmina Vasiljevic , Ryerson University Jennifer Woodcock , University Of Victoria Jignasa Shah , Dalhousie University Margareta Ackerman , University Of Waterloo Nazish Bhatti , Concordia University Phillipa Gill , University Of Toronto Rachel Zhang , Queen’s University Veronica Irvine , University Of Victoria Yanyan Zhuan g, University Of Victoria Europe, Middle East and Africa Scholars Adi Shklarsh , Tel Aviv University, Israel Alexandra Jimborean , Université Louis Pasteur Strasbourg, France Andrea Francke , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Arlette van Wissen , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Birgit Schmidt , Graz University of Technology, Austria Christina Pöpper , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Christine Zarges , Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany Ekaterina Shutova , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Elena Tretyak , Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Estrella Eisenberg , Bar-Ilan University, Israel Hilary Finucan e, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Hind Saddiki , Al Akhawayn University, Morocco Irina Makhalova , Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, Russia Katayoun Farrahi , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Lavinia Basaraba , Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Limor Leibovich , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Maria Francesca O’ Connor , Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Maria-Camilla Fiazza , University of Verona, Italy Melanie Ganz , University of Copenhagen, Denmark Monika Schubert , Graz University of Technology, Austria Nina Kargapolova , Novosibirsk State University, Russia Ntombikayise Banda , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Nuzhah Gooda Sahib , Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom Oana Tifrea , Free University of Bozen · Bolzano, Italy Pinar Yanardag , Bogazici University, Turkey Ruzica Piskac , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Samreen Anjum , Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar, Qatar Silvian Gitau , University of Cape Town, South Africa Sinini Ncube , Rhodes University, South Africa Sus Lundgren , Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Susanne Pfeifer , University of Oxford, United Kingdom Tatiana Starikovskaya , Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia Yael Amsterdamer , Tel Aviv University, Israel Europe, Middle East and Africa Finalists Afsaneh Asaei , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Aia Hassouneh , Birzeit University, Palestinian Territories Alissa Cooper , University of Oxford, United Kingdom Anastasia Tkach , Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Russia Anastasia Shakhshneyder , Technische Universität München, Germany Anna Astrakova , Novosibirsk State University, Russia Anna Dehof , Saarland University, Germany Anna Zych , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Annemarie Friedrich , Saarland University, Germany Archana Nottamkandath , Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Charlotte Ipema , Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Ching-Yun Chang , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Claudia Rosas Mendoza , Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Claudia Schon , University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany Efrat Mashiach , Tel Aviv University, Israel Elzbieta Dlutowska , University of Wrocław, Poland Eman AbdelSalam , Alexandria University, Egypt Eva Darulova , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Floor Sietsma , University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Grace Mbipom , University of Manchester, United Kingdom Hildegard Kuehne , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Ifeanyichukwu Ekeruche , Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana Ioana Verebi , Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania Ivonne Thomas , Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Janneke van der Zwaan , Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Julia Preusse , University of Magdeburg, Germany Julie Rico , University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Karolina Soltys , University of Warsaw, Poland Laura Zilles , Technische Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany Lene Mejlby , Aarhus University, Denmark Lina AL Kanj , American University of Beirut, Lebanon Lucy Gunawan , Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Maria Mateescu , Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Maria Karoliina Lehtinen , University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Marije de Heus , University of Twente, The Netherlands Marleine Daoud , University of Stuttgart, Germany Mary Baraza , Busoga University, Uganda Maysa Nouh , Birzeit University, Palestinian Territories Meyyar Palaniappan , Technische Universität München, Germany Min Bao , Linköping University, Sweden Mounira Bachir , Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France Naama Tepper , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Nga Nguyen , University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Nino Shervashidze , Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Germany Olga Streibel , Free University of Berlin, Germany Reem Mostafa , Alexandria University, Egypt Rehab Alnemr , Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Rikke Bendlin , Aarhus University, Denmark Ruth Rinott , Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Sarah Greenfield, De Montfort University, United Kingdom Sarah Niebe , University of Copenhagen, Denmark Saskia Groenewegen , Utrecht University, The Netherlands Sophia Wadie , American University in Cairo, Egypt Svetlana Olonetsky , Tel Aviv University, Israel Sylvia Grüener , Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Tamar Aizikowitz , Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Viviana Petrescu , Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland Zsuzsanna Püspöki , Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Posted by Beate List, EMEA University Programmes
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Introducing Google’s 2010 Anita Borg Scholars & Finalists