PC CLARE BOOTH LUCE SCHOLARSHIPS ANNOUNCED FOR 2020-2021 ACADEMIC YEAR
Providence, RI – April 13, 2020– Providence College (PC) today announced that Olivia Jo Dickinson ’21, a physics and mathematics major from South Burlington, VT, and Sharon Rooney ‘21, a mathematics and studio art double major from Westwood, MA, have been selected as recipients of the College’s Clare Boothe Luce (CBL) Undergraduate Scholarships. Dickinson and Rooney will receive full tuition and fees scholarships during their senior year, as well as funding to support both their research and an outreach project that promotes women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
The opportunity was established at Providence College in 2016 with generous funding from the Henry Luce Foundation’s Clare Boothe Luce Program. Olivia and Shannon will be the seventh and eighth recipients of this prestigious scholarship at PC.
About the Program:
Since its first grants in 1989, the Clare Boothe Luce Program is one of the single-most significant sources of private support for women in chemistry, applied physics, mathematics or computer science. 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. Thus far, the program has supported more than 2,500 women.
Clare Boothe Luce Scholars who accept the scholarship award will be active within their departments and in the broader campus community by connecting with other STEM students (particularly women via mentoring and/or tutoring roles), presenting their academic research to a campus audience in the fall and spring, and attending recruitment events, such as fall admission open houses and spring events for accepted students. They also will complete a service component that will support fellow female STEM majors on campus.
Founded in 1917, Providence College is the only college or university in the United States administered by the Dominican Friars. The Catholic, liberal arts college has an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 4,000 students and offers degrees in 52 academic majors and 38 minors. Since 1997, Providence College consistently has been ranked among the top five regional universities in the North according to U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges.”
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