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Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce
Application Process (includes data on women in STEM)
Selection Committee
Recent Grants
Directory of Professors
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Since its first grants in 1989 the Clare Boothe Luce Program (CBL) has become the single most significant source of private support for women in science, mathematics and engineering. Clare Boothe Luce, the widow of Henry R. Luce, was a playwright, journalist, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, and the first woman elected to Congress from Connecticut. In her bequest establishing this program, she sought “to encourage women to enter, study, graduate, and teach” in science, mathematics and engineering.
The program has three categories: 1) undergraduate scholarships and research awards, 2) graduate and post-doctoral fellowships, and 3) term support for tenure-track appointments at the assistant or associate professorship level. All awards must be used exclusively in the United States (not for travel or study abroad). Student recipients must be U.S. citizens and faculty recipients must be citizens or permanent residents. Thus far, the program has supported more than 1500 women.
According to the terms of the bequest, at least fifty percent of the awards go to Roman Catholic colleges or universities. Grants are made only to four-year degree-granting institutions, not directly to individuals.
Program Director: Dr. Carlotta Arthur
Program Assistant: Ms. Kathy Czerniak
Dr. Jane Zimmer Daniels has retired from the Luce Foundation’s staff on December 31, 2011. Initially appointed in January 2001, she has served as the director of the Clare Boothe Luce Program, and since 2009 has also directed the Higher Education Program. For three decades, Dr. Daniels has been an advocate for women’s leadership in the STEM disciplines, having directed innovative programs for women in engineering at Purdue University and co-founded the national association, WEPAN. At the Luce Foundation, she expanded the scope of recipient institutions; introduced undergraduate research awards and post-doctoral fellowships to the Clare Boothe Luce Program’s grants for women in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering; and contributed research to advance the careers of women in these fields.
Dr. Carlotta M. Arthur has been appointed Program Director for the Clare Boothe Luce Program, effective on January 1, 2012. After completing the bachelor’s degree in metallurgical engineering at Purdue University, she worked as an engineer for 10 years in industry. She received the M.A. and Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the State University of New York – Stony Brook, where she also taught undergraduates. Following a residency at the University of Texas, she was a Kellogg post-doctoral fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, then taught at Meharry Medical College in Nashville and later at Smith College. Most recently she has served on the staff of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, where she has been director of the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program and program officer for Diversity Initiatives.
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