AWESOME leader encourages others to reach back for AWE scholarship

Michelle Livingstone, VP Transportation, The Home Depot, and recipient of the 2019 AWESOME Legendary Leadership Award, considered which women in her company could benefit most from earning a master’s degree at MIT on the AWESOME/MIT Advancing Women through Education Scholarship. She encouraged Elizabeth Raman Grubbs, a Senior Data Analyst at The Home Depot, to apply. Elizabeth (Liz) was selected, and she’s now attending the graduate supply chain management program at MIT. Continue reading

Recipient of AWESOME MIT AWE Fellowship takes on special project to respond to COVID-19

Elizabeth Raman Grubbs, the first recipient of the AWESOME/MIT Advancing Women through Education (AWE) Fellowship, is responding to COVID-19 by working with UNICEF’s Supply Division Product Innovation Centre on a strategy and process for UNICEF’s oxygen optimization tool. Continue reading

AWESOME Announces 2020 Recipients of AWE MIT Fellowship

One full-tuition and two half-tuition fellowships have been awarded to women who have been admitted to the Supply Chain Master’s program from MIT for the 2020-21 academic year. This is the second year AWESOME and the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics have partnered on the Advancing Women through Education (AWE) Fellowship. Continue reading

For AWE scholarship awardee, studying at MIT was a dream – and then it happened

Elizabeth Raman Grubbs knew supply chain was the right field for her. Her role as a transportation logistics analyst at The Home Depot – like her internship at Lockheed Martin before that – gave her the opportunity to learn how important supply chain is to an organization. Now she’s taking her career further as the first recipient of the AWESOME/MIT Advancing Women through Education (AWE) Fellowship and has written about that experience in a new blog. Continue reading