Fifteen Students Awarded Dorothy Goodwin Scholarships

The Women’s Advancement Initiative is pleased to announce the 2022-2023 Dorothy Goodwin Scholarship awardees. Scholarship recipients are undergraduate women students who are conducting innovative research or developing creative projects in collaboration with faculty mentors.

Launched in 2010, the Dorothy Goodwin Scholars Program was established thanks to a generous bequest from Dorothy Goodwin, an educator, political leader, philanthropist, visionary, and longtime trustee of Hartford College for Women, who inspired women and girls to live beyond limitations and realize their full potential. She recognized and modeled that reaching one’s potential requires challenging opportunities, committed mentors, and financial support. In honor of her influence and philanthropic spirit, and with gratitude for the generosity of her friends, The Women’s Advancement Initiative is proud to support these scholarly projects.

Awardees

Madison Anthony ’23 will bring awareness to the academic, social-emotional, and physical benefits of music education for students with exceptionalities.

Basmalah Asad ’25 plans to use simulation and probability to develop a basic strategy for a modified Blackjack game.

Megan Bainbridge ’23 will digitize Hartford College for Women yearbooks and create a time-based presentation using the recordings of Laura Johnson and Erle Martin.

Hilary Bareiss ’25 is showcasing the evolution of Jewish art and culture by curating an exhibit focused on the different centers of Jewish life in the world.

Alana Cedeno ’23 plans to develop a garden monitoring system that detects, monitors, and transfers data to handheld devices to assist users with maintaining proper conditions for a successful garden.

Caroline Christopher ’24 will be creating historically informed video and audio recordings of songs from the Hildegard Publishing Company “24 Songs” Songbook to fill the need for more educational resources on effective performance of Baroque music.

Millie Hamlin ’25 will publish a website to inform consumers about greenwashing in advertising and design.

Jennifer Ketkeorsamy ’23 will design an aviation museum in Canada that will focus on the history of aviation in North America.

April McBroom ’23 is creating a curriculum that showcases the entrepreneurial and technical skills needed for women and girls to be financially independent and confident in the field of computer science.

Monica Padykula ‘24 plans to observe and quantify how adding the plasticizer, sucrose, will change the behavior of the polymer as it acts as a plasticizer to reduce the brittleness of the PVA films due to a change in the molecular chain.

Victoria Rozario ’23 will use literature review and anonymous surveys to analyze the connection between women's advancement and national development in South Asian countries.

Gia Spiotti ’24 will use the Romanian folk song Pana Cand Nu Te Iubeam to explore a familial connection to Romania as a first-generation Romanian American, using a lecture-recital format, constructed from live performances of original adaptations and discussion informed by research.

Claire Taylor ’23 plans to compose music to be included in a moving song cycle that will highlight and empower underrepresented women composers.

Rachael Tilton ’22 will use survey response data to study the accessibility of restroom amenities to petition for the increased provision of dispensers and free menstrual products.

Brooke Winterlich ’23 will use photo elicitation to assess students' feelings concerning eating after the pandemic and collaborate with University Dining Services to make eating on campus a non-anxiety-inducing activity for residential students.

We also applaud all faculty members engaged in research, teaching, and mentorship. A special thank you to this year’s Dorothy Goodwin faculty mentors for providing project oversight. These include Takafumi Asaki, Timothy Becker, Ayelet Brinn, Janell Carroll, Amanda Freeman, Mark Hopper, Andrew Jung, Cindy Lau, Deborah Lifton, Gilda Lyons, Mala Matacin, Daniel Martin, Sean Parke, Thomas Prutisto, Juliana Vita, and Suhail Yusuf.

Each scholarship recipient will showcase their innovative research and creative projects at the Women’s Advancement Initiative’s Annual Symposium on Thursday, March 30, at 5:30 p.m., in the Harry Jack Gray Center.