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Middle East | Lebanon | Education

Amal Clooney Has Launched a Scholarship for Young Lebanese Women

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Amal Clooney hopes to help the next generation of Lebanese girls get a university degree with her new scholarship called 100 Lives. The partnership will help the lucky recipients study for a degree at the United World College in Dilijan, Armenia. 100 Lives is an initiative that hopes to raise awareness of the Armenian Genocide. "This scholarship will give young women from Lebanon the opportunity of a lifetime," Clooney said. "Cross-cultural learning and studying abroad can be transformative. I am grateful to 100 Lives for helping to open doors for these bright and talented young women."
North America | United States | Activism

Girl power: Fund awards $1,000 scholarships to 1,000 women

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Christie Garton is helping women reach their dreams one scholarship at a time. Last January, Garton, a social entrepreneur and author of The College Girl’s Guide to Everything, launched the 1,000 Dreams Fund, a program that provides $1,000 scholarships to young women working to reach their dreams. “Any support women can get at this life stage can truly change their lives,” says Garton. The program, funded by outside donors, has been live for nearly a year and, so far, has awarded 20 scholarships to high school- and college-aged women. Garton’s initial goal is to award the mone
North America | United States | Education

Cards Against Humanity Offers $500,000 In Scholarships To Women In Tech

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For a company geared toward “horrible” people, Cards Against Humanity sure does do some pretty meaningful things. Earlier this year, the popular party game announced it would be selling a science-centric 30-card expansion pack to raise money toward its Science Ambassador Scholarship fund, which will provide full-ride, four-year scholarships to women pursuing undergraduate degrees in STEM fields -- science, technology, engineering or math. The pack, co-authored by "Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal" creator Zach Weinersmith andBad Astronomy author Phil Plait, has been a hit, drummi
South Asia | Nepal | Activism

Here’s how two girls from Nepal brought attention to the inequality facing women around the world

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Students Jharana and Sirjana were tired of gender inequality, so they made a plan. In their home country of Nepal, women are far less likely than men to be educated. While today's generation of girls is receiving at least a basic education (91% of girls attend primary school), they're still viewed as being "less than" men when it comes to looking for a career. To raise awareness of the inequality facing Nepalese women in education and career opportunities, they began recruiting classmates to participate in a 5k run for women's equality. 350 runners took part in the 5k, making it a run
Europe | U.K. | Education

Baroness Amos: I was taken aback when I found out I was the first black female head of a university

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Making history as the first black woman to lead a British university causes mixed emotions for Valerie Amos, who is honoured by her appointment but dismayed that the breakthrough has taken so long. The baroness, a former Labour minister, expresses concern at the lack of diversity in higher education, referring to the scarcity of black academics and the struggle of students of African and Caribbean heritage to succeed at university. Figures showing that only 85 of the UK’s 18,500 professors are black are alarming, she says. “I was taken aback when I found out I’d be the first black
Europe | U.K. | Education

Oxford University To Appoint First Female Vice-Chancellor In Nearly 800 Years

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Oxford University announced this week its nomination of Professor Louise Richardson for the school’s most senior role of vice-chancellor, who, if approved, will be the first woman to hold the position in the university’s nearly 800-year history. Should the Oxford Congregation approve Richardson, she will take over from Professor Andrew Hamilton on January 1, 2016, and retain the position for seven years. Richardson, currently the vice-chancellor of Scotland’s St. Andrews University, told the Guardian that she was honored by the nomination. “I look forward to the day when a woman bei
North America | United States | Education

Girls and women describe what it feels like to do math in this really cool, poignant video

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When you look back on all your time spent in math classes in your human life, you can probably remember a lot of the questions teachers asked you over the years, or at least the general nature of them. Most of them were equation or theorem based, and every now and then you were just plain stumped. Still, I’m guessing none of those questions were quite as disarming as when these girls were asked to describe what it feels like to do math, simply because we don’t often think about how the process of math makes us “feel.” The video focuses on women of all ages describing the sensation,
Asia | China | Culture

Girls’ Education Project Proving a Massive Success

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Our early life experiences tend to shape who we are and what we do in our adulthood. For Tien Ching, founder of the charity organization Educating Girls in Rural China, her experience during the "cultural revolution" (1966-76) in her teenage years changed her life, and consequently, the destiny of hundreds of girls in Gansu, Guizhou and Qinghai provinces that have benefitted from the education project she created. Tien Ching, who now lives in Canada, was only 17 years old when her life took a dramatic turn after being sent to work in a factory in rural Gansu. She went from studying in
Africa | Ghana | Education

teen girls code their way to a brighter future

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Every week in the heart of Nima, a slum in the Ghanaian capital of Accra, families congregate at a local mosque. When the time comes, young girls say goodbye to their loved ones and part ways, filing up concrete steps leading up to the floor above. There, inside a large room dotted with brown tables, rows of flashing computer screens await for them. "When the parents are praying [downstairs], we are teaching the girls upstairs," explains tech entrepreneur Regina Agyare, who comes here every week to teach local teens how to code. I decided to set up a coding club and started having reg
South Asia | Afghanistan | Culture

Shabana Basij-Rasikh: From Secretly Attending School to Starting Her Own

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Imagine if going to school meant disguising yourself as a boy, taking a different route each day and covering your books with grocery bags. For Shabana Basij-Rasikh, this was her reality, each and every day. Growing up in a Taliban-ruled Afghanistan where girls were banned from attending school, Shabana’s only option was to go to school in secret. Shabana was considered one of the lucky ones in the country — her parents supported and prioritized her and her sister’s education despite the fatal consequences of doing so. When she was 15, Shabana moved to the U.S. to finish up high schoo
South Asia | India | Education

With 55 Per Cent Women Graduates, IIM Kozhikode Creates History

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With the largest ever percentage of women graduates from any top B-school in India, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode has made history this year. Having studied in a more equal ratio with 55 per cent being women, the honchos of tomorrow feel they have the edge the industry needs. Gita Piramal, a Business Historian and Independent Director at Bajaj Auto, said she believes, "We are having a little mini army which is getting ready and going out and the timing is also perfect because the job market is much better, the economy is beginning to look up. 20 years from now I see major things
North America | United States | Education

Meet A Neurobiologist Who’s Mapping The Human Brain

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Rockefeller University neurobiologist Cori Bargmann spent the past year assembling expert teams and vetting research ideas. Arguably more ambitious than the Human Genome Project or the Apollo program, the Brain Research Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative endeavors to demystify our least understood organ—and the one that makes us most human. The 12-year, $4.5-billion undertaking aims to establish links between brain function and behavior, and to develop tools that will help us finally get to the bottom of conditions such as Alzheimer’s, autism, and depression.  Now, she says
Middle East | Iran | Education

The Next Einstein May Be A 27-Year-Old Iranian Woman

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Sparrho was developed when CEO Vivian Chan was getting her PhD in biochemistry at the University of Cambridge and Sparrho checks more than 18,000 sources daily and features more than 2.1 million documents in its database, including the latest articles, patents, videos and even grants. Through a partnership with The British Library, Sparrho has access to metadata for all of its content, dating back to the 1890s. That allows the company to search Einstein’s work and find all the people who have written similar papers. That Iranian woman I mentioned. She’s called Zahra Haghani and yo

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