MentorNet News Bits & Bytes
Northern California AWIS Chapters Honor MentorNet's Founder and CEO
The Northern California chapter of the Association for Women in Science presented MentorNet CEO and President
Carol Muller with the 2005 Distinguished Professional Award at the NCC-AWIS Awards and Recognition Banquet
May 4. The award recognizes Muller for being a woman who uses her science outside the laboratory to mentor
other women and promote the careers of women in science.
2005 Essay Contest Winners
Congratulations to the four winners in the second annual MentorNet Essay Contest: In the personal growth category,
Song Seto, a student from the University of California, Berkeley, won first place, and Kristin Field, a Ph.D.
candidate at Ohio State University, was runner-up.
Lily Pai, a student from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, won in the career category, and Rehka
Kulshreshtha, a mentor at IBM, was the winner in the diversity category.
The winners received a Hewlett-Packard iPAQ 4700 Pocket PC or HP Photosmart M407 digital camera, donated
by the company.
Thank you to all who sent in essays. We also owe the success of the contest to coordinators Evelyn Hsia of Hyperion Solutions and Brenda Liu of Intel (one of last year's grand prize winners); and the judges' panel: Brymer Chin, Stephanie Fox, Cynthia Gilley, Susan S. Metz, JoAnn Moody, Mary L. Pavone, Katherine Tobin, Rebecca Sawchuk, and Celesta White.
Campus Partners: There's Still Time to Save
You can save 10 percent if you'd like to join MentorNet as a new campus partner, or rejoin if your campus
partnership has expired. Just complete the sign-up process by June 15. And campus partners that renew at
least 30 days prior to their partnership expiration also receive a 10 percent discount. Learn more
about being a campus partner. Current partner campuses can start the renewal process now.
Evaluation Drawing Winner
Elizabeth Davis, an undergraduate in mechanical engineering at Michigan State University, received an HP
iPAQ in our quarterly drawing for protégés who send in evaluation surveys. Next quarter's prize is an
HP digital camera, so send in those surveys!
New and Returning Campus Partners
Welcome to EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology at Lausanne, MentorNet's newest campus partner,
and to returning university partners Lehigh University; Michigan Technological University and the
University of Texas, Arlington.