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CCSW Woman of the Year
The Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women (CCSW) established a " Woman of the Year" Award in 1992. This annual award honors a UIC woman who has been consistently working on women's issues beyond the call of duty and who is an exemplary role model. The award criteria include providing service to women at UIC while on the job, responding to issues affecting women, and offering service to women through voluntarism and public support of women's programs.
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Beth E. Richie PhD |
- Professor, Department of African-American Studies, Gender and Womens Studies, and Criminal Justice.
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Claudia Morrissey |
- Deputy Director, Center for Research on Women and Gender National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health
- Director of the Women in Science and Engineering program
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- Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs.
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- First woman to earn the prestigious UIC Inventor of the Year award since its creation in 1985
- Published more than 90 articles in peer-reviewed journals
- Developing a novel targeted approach intended to detect breast cancer at very early stages
- Impacting the lives of numerous women by serving as a role-model and mentor in a field dominated by men
- Her research efforts and inventions have seeded two start up companies and have been recognized by the UIC Office of Technology Management
- One of three female tenured full professors in the College of Pharmacy
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- Fulbright Scholar Program Award, 2002-2003
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Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1990 - present
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Board of Directors, Society for the Study of Reproduction, 1997-2001
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Vice Chair and Chair, Gordon Research conference, Reproductive Tract Biology, 1998-2000
- Society for the Study of Reproduction Research Award, 1998
- National Institutes of Health Merit Award, 1988-1998
- American Medical Women's Association Gender Equity Award, 1994
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- Directed the Administrative Shadow Program on the Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Women (CCSW)
- Initiated and administrated the Academic Professional Mentoring Program with 200 mentors and protégés.
- Appointed member of Governor Ryan's Commission on the Status of Women in Illinois.
- Chaired the Chancellor's Committee on the Development of Women Administrators.
- Sponsored Leadership Illinois Partial Scholarship for Women
- Served on the University Liaison to the American Association of University Women
- Won Faculty Mentor Appreciation Award in the College of Pharmacy in 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000
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