The President’s Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) has announced the recipients of its PCCW spring 2017 microgrants. The goal of this newly established funding is to support student-led projects or events that empower women and raise awareness of women’s issues in the Cornell community.

Female student groups were invited to apply for awards of up to $500. The recipients were selected through a competitive application and review process. The winners are:

• Women’s Planning Forum, for “Lessons From the Land Bank: A Conversation with Katelyn Wright,” $100;
• Les Femmes de Substance, for its annual women’s retreat, $500;
• Cornell Law Women’s Law Coalition, for its “Fifth Annual Career Day,” $500;
• Graduate Women in Science, Ithaca Chapter, for a mini-symposium on “Intersectional Feminism in STEM,” $500;
• Scientista Foundation Chapter at Cornell University, for monthly brunches, $300;
• Women’s Ultimate Frisbee, Cornell Wildroses, for “Girls Ultimate Clinic for Middle and High School Girls,” $130;
• Intercultural Programs, for “Engaging Across Difference: Women’s Resource Center and Women’s Organizations Affiliated With Intercultural Programs,” $200;
• Women in Computing at Cornell, for “Women in Computing at Cornell First G-Body Meeting,” $200;
• Frozen A$$ets, Johnson’s women’s ice hockey club, for an ice hockey practice series, $500;
• Cornell University Chorus, for “Cornell Women’s Choral Conference,” $500 and
• Art Majors Organization, for “Rujeko Hockley - Women in the Arts Lecture,” $500.

“We are delighted to support such a wide-ranging group of student organizations – athletes, scientists, musicians and more – that create opportunities to network and promote discussion among students, faculty, administrators and alumnae,” said Jeannette Pérez-Rosselló ’91, chair of PCCW. “Networking is about creating a larger whole from the sum of the parts and lifting each other.”

The President’s Council of Cornell Women is an alumnae group of industry and academic leaders, including Fortune 500 CEOs, lawyers, judges, physicians, professors and nonprofit executives. It supports Cornell women through active mentoring programs, scholarships and grants to student leaders, athletes and campus organizations, and research grants to pre-tenured faculty members. Over the past 25 years, PCCW has awarded more than $4 million in grants.