Grant to Mudd Honors Clare Booth Luce
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The Henry Luce Foundation has awarded $416,857 to Harvey Mudd College to establish a Clare Booth Luce Professorship for the advancement of women in the sciences and two Clare Booth Luce Scholarships to be given to two junior and senior women students in the sciences.
The scholarships, beginning in 1994, will consist of $12,500 annually for two years for each of the students.
The professorship will go to Shenda Baker, who will begin teaching at the college as assistant professor of chemistry in 1993. The funding provides for the first five years of her salary, fringe benefits, a one-month summer salary and an allowance for student assistants, equipment and child care.
Baker is completing a postdoctoral fellowship at Los Alamos Laboratories in New Mexico, where she uses a scanning tunneling microscope to study individual atoms on the surfaces of solids and within biological membranes.
She graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and earned her doctorate at Caltech.
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