2024 Women of Impact Awards honor Janet Roveda
Janet Roveda is recognized for her compassion and commitment to increasing diversity in STEM fields.
Engineering faculty are counted among the University of Arizona Women of Impact award winners for the third year in a row. The 2024 list breaks a record with four college awardees, one of whom was ECE professor Janet Roveda.
“This award motivates me to do better and work harder to build our community as the top in the nation,” said Roveda, director of the lead site for the Center to Stream Healthcare in Place and a joint professor in biomedical engineering, ECE and nursing.
Roveda is committed to increasing diversity in STEM fields, said her nominators. Her outreach activities and mentorship span from elementary school to graduate students. Remarkably compassionate and humble, she is the ideal role model for students and junior faculty, said her nominators.
“She’s always ready to step in and help without being asked,” said Jerzy Rozenblit, the Raymond J. Oglethorpe Endowed Chair and University Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, who was department head when Roveda joined the faculty in 2003.
The 2024 list of awardees for Women of Impact was historic for College of Engineering faculty.