San Jose Woman Wins $25,000 Scholarship to Leavey School of Business; 'C200 Scholar Award' Given to First-Year Woman MBA Student Violeta Reed

Business Wire, May 17, 2004

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SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 17, 2004

Violeta Reed, who works during the day as an engineer at Pratt & Whitney and takes MBA classes at night, has been named a C200 Scholar by a national women's group, entitling her to a $25,000 scholarship to continue her graduate studies at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

The part-time MBA student was given her award at a "Redefining the Game" Conference hosted by Women in Business at Santa Clara University Women earlier this month, presented by the Committee of 200 (C200), a national group of women business leaders.

Reed, of San Jose, wins the scholarship, an expense-paid trip to the C200 annual conference, and an optional 10-week paid internship with a C200 member's company. Women candidates for the scholarship, all first-year MBA students at SCU, were asked to write essays on how they are influenced by women business leaders and how they would become leaders of conscience, competence, and compassion, coinciding with the mission of Santa Clara University.

Reed currently works at Pratt & Whitney's Space Propulsion division as a materials engineer. Prior to her experience at Pratt & Whitney, she worked at Intel Corporation as a technical project manager, and a process development engineer in Santa Clara. She earned her bachelor's degree in materials engineering from UCLA. While at UCLA, she received the Student Welfare Award for outstanding community service.

About the Committee of 200

"Pioneering. Risk-taking. Intense. Disciplined. Focused. Committed." These are the words which best describe the members of C200, the professional organization of preeminent women business owners and corporate executives of multi-million dollar companies. Founded in 1982, Committee of 200 members are a select group of more than 450 diverse women at the top of their respective fields, all of whom have achieved measurable success as entrepreneurs or corporate executives. The group is committed to sharing what its members have learned along the way with each other and with the next generation of businesswomen. C200 is a unique organization: a combination network, learning lab, and peer group of the most accomplished businesswomen in the world -- women who have overcome stereotypes to achieve success on their own terms. For more information, see http://www.c200.org.

About the Leavey School of Business

The Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University began in 1926, and was one of the first business schools in the country to receive national accreditation. In 2004, the MBA program was listed by U.S. News and World Report as one of the Top Business Schools in the U.S., and its part-time program was listed among the top 10. More than 80 percent of its 1,100 MBA students are working professionals in Silicon Valley. More information is available at www.scu.edu/business.> About Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California's Silicon Valley, offers its 8,047 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the third-highest graduation rate among all U.S. master's universities, California's oldest higher-education institutions demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. More information is available at www.scu.edu.