Recognition
Fellow Felicity Aston (2014 Courage Award) is the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica
The WINGS Fellows Program recognizes extraordinary women who are making discoveries and finding solutions to global problems through bold research, conservation and exploration projects. Further, the WINGS Fellows program has become a powerful network for women working in the field sciences to actively engage in interdisciplinary exchange and collaboration. Each newly inducted Fellow is recognized at the Women of Discovery Gala and receives a $10,000 grant to support her work.
Listen to the 2019 Women of Discovery cohort discuss the value of the Women of Discovery award and being part of the WINGS community:
Selection Process
Darlene Lim (2019 Air & Space Award) leads research programs that connect and interweave science, engineering, operations and human-robotic exploration in some of the most hostile and extreme conditions on Earth
Fellows are nominated by the WINGS Fellows Network, the WINGS Board of Directors, and advisory committees. Nominations are reviewed by the Nominations Committee, which is composed of WINGS Fellows and Board Members. The Nominations Committee presents its findings to the Board of Directors for consideration and final Fellow awards.
WINGS WorldQuest Fellows are women of any race, culture or age who:
are actively engaged in field work focused on investigating questions about the nature of our world;
have demonstrated the ability to think outside of the box and follow an uncommon path;
have shown promise for contributing to important future advances in sciences and humanities; and
share a commitment to contributing to WINGS’s education and outreach mission, including being role models for the next generation.
WINGS WorldQuest does not accept unsolicited nominations for Women of Discovery Awards or WINGS Fellows.
WOMEN OF DISCOVERY AWARDEES
L-R, 2022 Fellow Citlalli Morelos-Juárez with 2023 Fellows Zuzana Buřivalová, Dawn Wright, Alifa Bintha Haque, Cristina Mittermeier, Emma Camp. Credit: Marcy Swingle - Photography
Karletta Chief, Adjany Costa, Jill Heinerth, Citlalli Morelos-Juarez, Rae Wynn-Grant
Krithi Karanth, Laly Lichtenfeld, Mandë Holford, Darlene Lim
Eleanor Sterling, Nalini Nadkarni, Thandiwe Mweetwa, Nergis Mavalvala, Asha de Vos
Beate G. Liepert, Sheila Ochugboju, Kristen Marhaver, Juliana Machado Ferreira, Marla Spivak, Hope Jahren
Helen Thayer, Felicity Aston, Arita Baaijens, Daphne Soares
Polly Wiessner, Gretel Ehrlich, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, Kate Jackson, Catherine Powers, Anna Cummins
2010
Kate Harris, Susan Dudley, Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher
Rosaly Lopes, Aparajita Datta, Leela Hazzah, Maya Tolstoy, Bolortsetseg Minjin
Ann Bancroft, Birgit Sattler, Lene Holm, Liv Arnesen, Vera Metcalf, Irina Nikolaeva, Jill Fredston
Constanza Ceruti, Terrie Williams, Jane Goodall, Erin Pettit, Grace Gobbo
Julianna Brush, Edie Widder, Elizabeth Bennett, Eugenie Clark, Sveva Gallmann, Janine Benyus, Aquilina Lestenkof
Sue Hendrickson, Ana Pinto, Nathalie Cabrol, Marianne Greenwood, Sabriye Tenberken
Marie Tharp, Vera Rubin, Stephanie Schwabe, Katy Payne, Iris Love
Meenakshi Wadhwa, Anna Roosevelt, Carol Amore, Sylvia Earle, Rosita Arvigo, Marilyn Bridges