Spectra Newsletter

Individual Donors by Gift Level:

$100,000 AND ABOVE
Pradip V. and Rekha Choksi

$10,000 to $99,999.
Evelin Ferdows Abouk
Brenda Anderson
Asad, Taj and Jamal Madni[Read more…]

Shawn M. Solomon was born with muscular dystrophy, but he never let his disability hold him back. Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, as a teenager he built his own ham radio receiver and communicated with operators worldwide via Morse code, which he had taught himself. He was the first in his family to go to college, and in 1962, he graduated from Cal State LA with a degree in electrical engineering. He worked for Hughes Aircraft, Litton and Teledyne, as well as Arco Solar.[Read more…]

It’s no secret that women are greatly underrepresented in engineering and computer science. According to the 2012 report “Stemming the Tide” (Project on Women Engineers’ Retention [POWER], University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), women comprise more than 20% of engineering school graduates, but just 11% of practicing engineers. With women representing more than half the population, both figures reveal a tremendous disparity and an opportunity to improve retention of female engineers.[Read more…]

$100,000 AND ABOVE
Aerojet Rocketdyne
Association of American Colleges and Universities

$10,000 to $99,000
Intel Corporation
Southern California Edison
Northrop Grumman
The Gene Haas Foundation
Boston Scientific Corporation
iAutomation, Inc.
Medtronic [Read more…]