Welcome to our new Season: great speakers, sections, the second century of the Faculty Women's Club

Our last General Meeting in 2021 was held virtually on November 16, 2021. The topic titled PHILANTHROPY AS CIVIC ENGAGEMENT: Empowering the Next Generation of Philanthropists, was discussed by three panelists: Jennifer Lindholm, Charles W. Evans, and Angela Sanchez (see the photograph of the zoom General Meeting, below). We learned how the 2021 class researched a pool of 42 organizations, selected three finalists, and cooperated with their management to prepare and present grant funding proposals for specific projects. The students evaluated the proposals and voted to allocate the available funding of $80,000 among the three non-profits.

The attending audience participated in lively discussions with the panelists who shared their experiences with Honors Collegium course. 

For details about each of the presenters, see front page of the FWC UPDATE Nov/Dec 2021 issue.

Attendees and presenters at the November 2021 virtual General Meeting

Our first General Meeting speaker is Mary D. Nichols, professor-in-residence at UCLA's School of Law and this year's FWC Woman of Distinction. This zoom meeting will be on October 19th at 1:30 PM. 

If you missed the virtual meeting in October 2021, you can watch the meeting here 

Mary D. Nichols is our featured speaker at the 1st General Meeting Webinar

While many UCLA venues are open, most of our FWC meetings are conducted via zoom. Examples are our board meetings, many sections, and other programming and events.

September 14, 2021 Executive Board Meeting
Top left: Afifi, Ercegovac, Caballero, Frank
DesRuisseaux (president), Lippe, Nagy, Sherritt
Spolsky, Homsher, King, Franenberg; last line: Spartaru, Montoya

Faculty Club has been our preferred place for executive board meetings and other programs. However, the Club is undergoing major renovations, and we cannot wait to be back and celebrate all our events there. 

Faculty Club meeting was held on August 19th 

FWC SCHOLARSHIPS: Then and Now (during the COVID-19 Pandemics)

ORAL HISTORY LEGACY PROJECT

UCLA's Faculty Women's Club Compiles Rich Legacy Through ORAL HISTORY PROJECT It was documented in Daily Bruin (March 14, 2013) under "Reliving the Past." Zorana Ercegovac, then President of the Faculty Women's Club, wanted to record the FWC, founded in 1918, through personal stories, anecdotes, photographs, and voices of our members. If you would like to be included in the FWC Oral History Legacy Project, please contact Zorana (zercegov@gmail.com). 

FWC FOURTH General Meeting, March 16th, 2021 featured Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz https://bnatterson-horowitz.com who will discuss her latest book: Wildhood: The Astounding Connections between Animal and Human Adolescents. Dr Barbara Natterson-Horowitz has been investigating various vulnerabilities among adolescent humans and animals, across risk taking, mental health, and exploitation. Her research results are published widely! Her work uses the lenses of evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and animal behavior to understand the species-spanning challenges of growing up. 

Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, MD, the featured speaker at the FWC
FOURTH General Meeting, March 16, 2021

Dr. Natterson-Horowitz was invited as the FWC speaker for our iconic General Meetings. 

Dr. Natterson-Horowitz (left) with Bowers, at the October 2012 FWC General Meeting.
B. N. Horowitz discussed her book Zoobiquity (NY Times bestselling, 2012) 

FWC's THIRD GENERAL WEBINAR celebrated twelve outstanding UCLA students. The UPDATE (v.31 no. 3) featured the main speaker, California senator Ben Allen, and brief biographies of the FWC 2021 Scholars. There is no need to repeat here their remarkable achievements. 

However, for the first in the history of FWC Scholarship Award Ceremony, we witnessed students' presentations on the screen rather than in person. Details are recorded and a full presentation of the February 2021 General Meeting is here.

Here is that one single screen which captured 11 successful undergraduate students and one Ph.D. candidate, Marta Bornstein, who won this year's FWC SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS.

Last year, February 2020, was the last celebratory program and event when we could meet in-person with the FWC Scholars. The group photo below captures their smiles -- from the UCLA's Faculty Center.