PALO ALTO, Calif.—August 26, 2009—The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI) announced today that Dr. Nadya Mason, assistant professor of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the winner of this year’s Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award. Dr. Mason will be honored for her accomplishments and contributions to women in technology at an awards ceremony on October 1, 2009, during ABI’s 9th Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing (GHC) in Tucson, Arizona.
Dr. Mason's research focuses on electron behavior in low-dimensional, correlated materials, where enhanced novel interactions are expected to give novel results. In addition to her research, Dr. Mason is a spokesperson for increasing diversity in physics and for creating a climate in academia that embraces and supports minorities and women.
The Denice Denton Emerging Leader Award is given each year to a junior non-tenured faculty member under the age of 40 at an academic or research institution pursuing high-quality research in any field of engineering or physical sciences while contributing significantly to promoting diversity in his/her environment. The Denice Denton Award is underwritten by Microsoft.
About the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
The Anita Borg Institute provides resources and programs to help industry, academia, and government recruit, retain, and develop women leaders in high-tech fields, resulting in higher levels of technological innovation. ABI programs serve high-tech women by creating a community and providing tools to help them develop their careers. ABI is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization. ABI Partners include: Google, Microsoft, HP, Cisco, Intel, National Science Foundation, NetApp, SAP, Sun Microsystems, Symantec, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Thomson Reuters, CA, Intuit, Amazon, Facebook, Raytheon, and Genentech. For more information, visit www.anitaborg.org.
About the Grace Hopper Celebration"
The world’s largest gathering of women in computing in industry, academia, and government, GHC is a four-day technical conference designed to bring the research and career interests of women in computing to the forefront. For more information, go to www.gracehopper.org.