The Google Europe Anita Borg Scholars 2007

Google Europe Anita Borg Scholarship Retreat 2007 in Zurich, Switzerland.

The Google Europe Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship was awarded for the first time in Europe in 2007. 180 students from 93 different universities across Europe applied. Selection criteria included academic performance, accomplishments within the science and technology community, letters of recommendation, answers to four short essay questions and interviews with members of a review committee. After two rounds of review, the committee selected 31 finalists, who were then interviewed by phone. Out of this group, 12 outstanding young women received the EUR 5,000 Scholarship for the 2007/2008 academic year.

The Google Europe Anita Borg Scholarship Recipients 2007

Angela Fabregues Vinent, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Eshcar Hillel, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Janice Giudice, Oxford University, UK
Katerina Makarova, Belarusian State University, Belarus
Liane Lewin-Eytan, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Lucia Terrenghi, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany
Maria Magdalena Ortiz, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Martina Umlauft, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Monika Steinova, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Sabrina Pei-Yun Hsueh, University of Edinburgh, UK
Sini Ruohomaa, University of Helsinki, Finland
Yael Pritch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

The Google Europe Anita Borg Scholarship Finalists 2007

Agnes Toth, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Brigitte Mathiak, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Clare Hooper, Southampton University, UK
Effrosyni Kokiopoulou, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Emilia Oikarinen, Helsinki Graduate School in Computer Science and Engineering, Finland
Eva Ondrackova, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Fernanda Minku, University of Birmingham, UK
Jana Kravalova, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Keren Ouaknine, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Maria Lopez Valdes, University of Zaragoza, Spain
Mathilde Durvy, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Oriana Ponta, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Ralitsa Angelova, Max Planck Institute, Saarbrücken, Germany
Ruzica Piskac, Digital Enterprise Research Institute, Innsbruck, Austria
Sara Adams, University of Oxford, UK
Sara Morrissey, Dublin City University, Ireland
Sindhu Joseph, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), Spain
Stephanie Balzer, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland
Vera Demberg, University of Edinburgh, UK

The 31 Google Europe Anita Borg Scholars and Finalists visited Google’s European Engineering Centre in Zurich on 1 June 2007 for a networking retreat. The retreat included tech talks, workshops, career panels, a Google tour and social activities, and provided an opportunity for all Scholars and Finalists to meet and share their experiences. The day also included discussions with Google engineers and executives.