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2024 TWIN Nominations

 

About the Award

Since the inception of the Tribute to Women & Industry (TWIN) in 1980 by the YWCA, the program has paid tribute to over 2,348 women. With the purpose of augmenting the efforts of companies in recognizing the outstanding achievements of their female employees, the award highlights the work of exceptional women that have been nominated and honored by their firm’s executives, co-workers, families and friends and also recognizes the role of employers in providing advancement opportunities for women in the workplace.

Every year, the University of California San Diego, Chancellor’s Committee on the Status of Women accepts nominations and sponsors a candidate for this award. The candidates for the award should meet the following criteria:

  • Occupy a management, executive or professional position with responsibility for a major component of organization, OR a position traditionally held by men within organization;
  • Outstanding achievement within organization, exceeding normal scope of position;
  • Nominee and company must agree to provide information requested on nomination form; all honorees will be photographed for inclusion in the TWIN Souvenir Booklet; and
  • Candidate can only be nominated once for TWIN recognition by the same organization.

The campus nominee alternates between a staff and faculty/academic member. In 2024, UC San Diego will submit a staff member as the campus nominee. Please submit your nomination by Tuesday, March 12, 2024. 

2024 Nomination Form

 

UC San Diego TWIN Award Past Recipients

2023 Dr. Lisa Elyer, Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Sanford Institute’s Center for Empathy and Compassion 
2022 Tana Troke Campana, Senior Assistant Dean and Chief of Staff at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
2020  Christina Chambers, Pediatrics
2019  Blanca Melendrez, UC San Diego Center for Community Health
2018  Jamila K. Stockman, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health
2017  Kathy Russo, Telecommunications and Information Services, UC San Diego Health
2016  Elizabeth Reed, Department of Medicine, Division of Global Health
2015  Erica Lennard, Chemistry & Biochemistry
2014  Anita Raj, Division of Global Public Health
2013  Andrina Marshall, Skaggs School of Pharmacy
2011  Gabriele Wienhausen, Biology
2010  Diana Bergen, Facilities Management
2009  Kim E. Barrett, Graduate Studies
2008  Linda Doughty, Cal-SOAP
2007  Jeanne Ferrante, Jacobs School of Engineering
2006  Ann Briggs Addo, Resource Management and Planning
2005  Ann L. Craig, Eleanor Roosevelt College
2004  Win Cox, University Communications
2003  Sangeeta Bhatia, Bioengineering
2002  Jonnie Craig-Winston, Human Resources
2001  Katjia Lindenberg, Chem & Biochemistry
2000  Linda Williams, Chancellor’s Office
1999  Debbie Wingard, School of Medicine
1998  Debbie McGraw, School of Medicine
1997  Susan Kirkpatrick, Chancellor’s Office
1996  Josie Foulks, Daycare, Business Affairs
1995  Deborah Spector, Biology
1994  Patricia Kitcher, Philosophy
1993  Ruth Covell, School of Medicine
1992  Marjorie Caserio, Academic Affairs
1991  Kim Pierce, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
1990  Barbara Bry, University Extension
1989  Delia Talamantez, Business Affairs
1988  Pat Collum, Administration
1987  Mae Brown, Student Affairs
1986  Marjorie Javet, Academic Affairs
1985  Faustina Solis, School of Medicine
1984  Laura Long, Business Affairs
1983  Marianne Felice, School of Medicine
1982  Mary Walshok, Academic Affairs
1981  Quelda Wilson, Business Affairs