One of the important ways that IAWA supports the professional development of women is through its IAWA Scholarship Program, which provides scholarships to women students majoring in Aviation Law, Management, Business or Finance. Each year the IAWA Board works with designated schools to identify scholarship candidates. Since IAWA’s inception of the Scholarship program in 2004, IAWA has awarded ten scholarships to four universities.
The Scholarship Committee for 2010 consists of six members including chair Lisa Piccione, VP Scholarship: Katherine Staton, Mylene Scholnick; Deb Fowler; Renee Martin-Nagel, Cecile Hatfield
The Board of Directors in 2006 voted to award scholarships to three schools:
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, Florida;
- Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas;
- McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
- The Board also approved a fourth scholarship, to be denominated our “International Scholarship”, to be awarded to an aviation woman student at an international university to be determined by the Scholarship Committee, usually to an international university where the annual IAWA conference is held.
The Scholarship Committee continues to keep in touch with former IAWA scholarship winners and provides them with mentoring.
The 2009 International IAWA Scholarship was given to Ana Cristina Galhego Rosa, a student at Leiden University in October, 2009, during IAWA's Annual Conference in Belgium .
The 2009 Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Scholarship has been awarded to Ms. Karolyn Campbell.
The 2010 SMU IAWA scholarship winner was Ms. Courtney Elizabeth Clegg who attends the Dedman School of Law at SMU.
The 2009 McGill University Scholarship was presented at the McGill Conference in Montreal, Canada, on October 29-31 to the winner, Rachel Pachoud.
For further information about the aeronautical and other programs offered by the institutions which are IAWA scholarship recipients, their websites are:
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University WWW.ERAU.EDU
- Southern Methodist University, Dedman School of Law WWW.SMU.EDU
- McGill University WWW.MCGILL.EDU
The Scholarship Committee requests IAWA members to send the Committee suggestions about universities that offer aviation programs to their students.