This year's Anita Borg Scholarship winners

Posted 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