CRWG Headlines
NEW! 2008 Alice J. Dan Dissertation Award Winners Announced!
The Center for Research on Women and Gender is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 Alice J. Dan Dissertation Award. Both award winners will receive a financial award to assist with their dissertation research. The winners are: Deirdre Guthrie (Ph.D Candidate: Anthropology) and Catherine Jacquet (Ph.D Candidate: History and Gender and Women's Studies Concentration). Read more about the award winners and the Dan Dissertation award.
NEW! Postion Available: Associate Director, CRWG
The CRWG is seeking qualified candidates for the position of Associate Director to work with the Director in overseeing and facilitating all of the Center’s program areas including women’s health, science, engineering, evaluation, work and culture. This is a 50% position. Applicants for this position should have an advanced graduate degree, although a PhD is preferred. In addition, the applicant should have a faculty appointment as an Associate or Full Professor (tenure track or tenure are not required); experience with administration, grant writing, research, fund raising, and program development; and interest and experience related to women and gender. For more information, visit Associate Director Advertisement.
Veronica Arreola Selected for Women's Media Center 2008 Class of Progressive Women's Voices
Veronica Arreola, Director of UIC's Women in Science and Engineering Program and CRWG Assistant Director was selected to be part of the Women's Media Center's third and final 2008 class of participants for the Progressive Women's Voices Program. Progressive Women's Voices has provided 33 women from a variety of fields with intensive media training and ongoing support to promote their perspective and message into the national dialogue. Since the program began, the Women's Media Center has had an impact at the highest levels of the media. Participants have appeared on CNN and CBS Evening News, been quoted by The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, placed op-eds in national papers like the Washington Post, and blogged about issues from the economy to race. For more information about the Progressive Women's Voices Program, visit http://www.womensmediacenter.com/progressive_womens_voices.html
Our Bodies, Ourselves Event Recording Now Available
On April 7, the CRWG celebrated the release of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth. The event featured Our Bodies, Ourselves Director, Judy Norsigian, and Carrie Klima, a faculty member from the UIC College of Nursing, discussing historical perspectives on pregnancy and childbirth in the U.S. The presentation was recorded by Chicago Amplified, a project of Chicago Public Radio. To listen to the presentation, visit http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=25957
CoE Launches Heart Health Campaign in Southern Illinois
The Heart Smart Campaign was initiated as part of the Southern Seven Women's Initiative for Cardiovascular Health, a collaboration among the UIC Center of Excellence in Women's Health, the Southern Seven Health Department, The Cooper Institute, and the Illinois Department of Public Health Office of Women's Health. The Heart Smart Campaign includes (1) "Heart Smart for Women", community education classes to help women increase their physical activity and eat healthier; (2) "Heart-to-Heart", a peer education program in which women who complete HSFW learn how to talk about health with friends and family members; and, (3) a media outreach campaign. For more information about the Heart Smart Campaign, visit http://www.heartsmartpledge.org
UIC BIRCWH Program Supports 3 Women's Health Scholars
The UIC BIRCWH Program is a women's health research career development program (National Institutes of Health K12 Grant) that was awarded to the UIC Center of Excellence in Women's Health in September 2007. The purpose of the BIRCWH program is to optimize the success of junior faculty in developing a substantive and sustained research program in women's health science. Three junior faculty are currenlty participating in the BIRCWH program: Joanna Burdette, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy; Colleen Corte, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing, College of Nursing; and Bryna Harwood, MD, MS, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine. For more information about the BIRCWH program at UIC visit http://www.uic.edu/orgs/womenshealth/bircwh.htm
Women's Health Graduate Concentration Now Available
The Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in Women's Health was approved by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees In January 2006. This concentration was developed to address the need for researchers, administrators, educators, and practitioners across disciplines to obtain the skills and knowledge necessary for professional work within the field of Women's Health. The concentration is offered to graduate level students in the College of Nursing and the School of Public Health. Additional academic units will be added in the near future. For more information, visit http://www.uic.edu/nursing/forms/WHConcentrationWebInfo.pdf