Who became the laureates of the “UP 100: Power of Women” award: “Education and Science” category

Photo: Oleksandr Ratushnyak, “UP”

“Ukrainian Pravda” for the first time honored a hundred Ukrainian women who bring victory closer with daily work, self-sacrifice and concern for the next generations of Ukrainians. 10 female figures won the award in the “Education and Science” category.

“War has a female face. This is the face of women who joined the army or became volunteers in the first days of the full-scale invasion. Who drive science and education, culture and business in the most difficult period of the existence of the Ukrainian state.

Who are waiting for their children, loved ones from the front or from captivity. Who lost their dearest. Who, despite the daily pain of losses, learn to live anew.

A Ukrainian woman today is about how, overcoming pain and fear, to look for meaning where it is sometimes impossible to find it, to rise and move on.” – notes the editorial office of “UP”.

Winners of the “UP100: Power of Women” award becamein particular, human rights activist, Nobel laureate, head of the “Civil Liberties Center” organization Oleksandra Matviychukhead of the ULF medical service, officer of the Armed Forces, volunteer Alina MykhaylovaPeople’s Deputy of Ukraine, Deputy Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine for European Integration Valeria Ionansinger Jamala.

List of laureates of the “UP 100: Power of Women” award in the “Education and Science” category

• Anna Novosad – co-founder of savED Foundation, Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine (2019-2020);
• Lyudmila Kurkurina – the headmistress of the school in the village of Chornozemne (Zaporizhia region);
• Maryna V’yazovska – mathematician, the second woman in history to receive the Fields Medal;
• Svetlana Arbuzova – researcher in the field of medical genetics, public figure;
• Svitlana Krakowska – climatologist, head of the laboratory of applied climatology of the Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Institute, activist;
• Nina Virchenko – mathematician, public activist;
• Olga Maslova – biologist, popularizer of science;
• Oksana Savenko – zoologist, polar researcher;
• Ella Libanova – scientist in the field of socioeconomics, demography and labor economics, academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, director of the Institute of Demography and Social Research named after M. V. Ptukha of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine;
• Helena Savruk – head of the “Strategic Architect School” and “Strategic Leadership in the Security and Defense Sector of Ukraine” programs of the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School.

Project participants were evaluated according to the following criteria:

• contribution to the victory and development of Ukrainian statehood;
• impact on social and political processes;
• leadership;
• virtue;
• advocacy of women’s rights and gender equality.

We will remind, earlier “Ukrainian Pravda” determined social leaders of Ukraine.