Building Research Connections (BRC)

Building Research Connections (BRC) is the CRWG's bi-annual electronic newsletter. If you would like to receive the BRC via email, please contact us at .

Current Newsletter:

Fall 2011

• Featured Researcher: Pauline Maki
• CRWG/CoE Receives $1.5 Million Community Health Grant
• Community Partner Spotlight: Lane Technical College Preparatory High School
• Viewpoints: Women's Sports Deserve A Chance By Veronica Arreola
• Featured Alumna: Jessica Bushar

Past Newsletters:

Spring 2011

• WISE Receives Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring
• 2011 Brings New Honors for CRWG Director Stacie Geller
• Featured Researcher: Stacey Horn
• Community Partner Spotlight: The Faith Community of St. Sabina and Gethsemane Church of God in Christ
• Featured Alumna: Ayesha Akhtar

Winter 2010-2011

• Featured Researcher: Chisina Kapungu
• COE Receives Health Assessment and Planning Grant to Serve Southern Illinois
• Viewpoints: Chicago Mayoral Race: Where are the Windy Women? By Veronica Arreola
• Featured Alumna: Regina Rust

Spring 2010

• Featured Researcher: Bryna Harwood
• CRWG Presents Safer Sex Fest
• For Your Health: Muslim Women's Health
• Community Partner Spotlight: NASA SEMAA Lab at Marine Military Academy
• Viewpoints: Teen Pregnancies on Center Stage Once Again By Donna Baptiste

Fall 2009

• Featured Researcher: Carmen Lilley
• For Your Health: Deciphering Skin Care Product Labels 101
• Community Partner Spotlight: Habilitative Systems, Inc.
• Viewpoints: Being a Woman is Not a Pre-Existing Condition? By Veronica Arreola
• Featured Alumnus: Andrew Cooper

Spring 2009

• CRWG Director Speaks at Gates Foundation and United Nations
• Featured Researcher: Donna Baptiste
• Featured Alumna: Tarini Bedi
• Viewpoints: Is Crime Increasing at UIC? By Sarah Shirk

Fall 2008

• CRWG Begins Fundraising Campaign for Dissertation Research Endowment
• Featured Researcher: Laura DeMarco
• Featured Community Partner: Southern Seven Health Department
• Featured Alumni: Tanisha Johnson and Veenu Randhawa

Spring 2008

• Featured Researcher: Barbara Risman
• UIC BIRWCH Program Supports 3 Women's Health Scholars
• Viewpoints: Tapping into the Woman's Amazing Body: The Potential of NFP to Unleash Feminist Power, by Regina Rust
• Featured Alumni: Cathy Song and Grace Jeng

Fall 2007

• Featured Researcher: Mrinalini (Meena) Rao
• Featured Community Partner: Neighborhood Technology Resource Center

Spring 2007

• Photos from CRWG's 15th Anniversary Celebration
• WISEST Awarded NSF ADVANCE Grant
• Featured Researcher: Kathleen Crittenden
• Reducing Postpartum Hemorrhage in the Developing World
• Featured Community Partner: Young Women's Leadership Charter School
• Viewpoints: Does becoming a mother help or hurt ones feminist credentials? By Veronica Arreola

Fall/Winter 2006

• An In-Depth Look at the College of Medicine Dean's Committee on Faculty Academic Advancement (FAAC)
• Viewpoints: Plan B, by Stacie Geller

Spring 2006

• Introducing UIC's Interdepartmental Graduate Women's Health Concentration
• Featured Community Partner: Chinese American Service League

Fall/Winter 2005

• Featured Researcher: Sharon Mastracci
• Featured Community Partner: Sisters4Science
• Women Teaching and Learning for Change
• Viewpoints: Domestic Partner Benefits at UIC, by Sarah Bickerton

Fall/Winter 2004

• New Director of CRWG Announced
• The Veteran Feminists of America Celebrate at UIC
• Featured Community Partner: Chicago Women in Trades
• Writings by Latina Mothers from the "Parents Write their Worlds" Project

Fall/Winter 2003

• Latina Parent Writers Participate in Public Hearing
• UIC's CoE Co-Sponsors National Lesbian Health Conference
• Viewpoints: Why I Like Quotas, by Claudia Morrissey
• Featured Researcher: Sylvia Vatuk, on Muslim Women and Divorce in Contemporary India
• Featured Community Partner: Girls in the Game

Spring 2003

• 30 Years of Our Bodies, Ourselves
• Medical Abortion: An Early Option
• Feminist's Exploration of Sexuality and Aging by Martha Holstein, CRWG Visiting Scholar
• Chicago Women's Liberation Union Launches Herstory Project
• Mentoring Girls in a World of Increasing Career Choices

Fall/Winter 2002

• CoE hosts the Beyond Parity Conference to Promote Leadership in Academic Medicine
• UIC's Women in Science and Engineering Program (WISE)
• Featured Scholar: Judith Kegan Gardiner, PhD on Theorizing Age with Gender

Summer 2002

• Direct-to-consumer Advertising to Senior Women: Empowering or Overpowering? By Sarah Shirk

Spring 2002

• A Brief Biographical History of Alice Dan, Director, CRWG

Fall 2001

• A Brief History of the Center for Research on Women and Gender
• CRWG Co-Sponsors "Expanding the Pipeline: Women & Girls in Science, Engineering and Technology" Conference

Summer 2001

• Feminists on the Move: The Feminist Majority's Campus Campaign

Spring 2001

• Gender Gap Widens in Computer Sciences Careers
• The Political Is Personal: Women in Contemporary Iran, by Norma Claire Moruzzi

Fall 2000

• "Year 2000 Status of Women and Girls in Chicago Report" Now Available
• Hull House Conference Explores Immigration and Women's International Networks, by Peg Strobel

Summer 2000

• Researching Women's History at UIC, by Mary Lynn Dietsche

Spring 2000

• Feminist Ethnography and Participatory Research, by Janise Hurtig

Fall 1999

• Research Seeks to Unravel the Mysteries of Fibromyalgia Syndrome by JoEllen Wilbur, Joan Shaver, and Randy Parker

Summer 1999

• President of Cybergrrl, Inc. Speaks on Female-Friendly Cyberspace
• Breast Cancer's Challenge to Femininity, by Mary Kleinman, MA

Spring 1999

• UIC's Center of Excellence: A New Model for Women's Health
• Historical Encyclopedia of Chicago Women Project

Fall 1998

• The Research Information Network is Open to the Public
• UIC Student Organization for Women Scientists
• Challenges of Evaluation Research

Summer 1998

• Overcoming Barriers to Multidisciplinary Collaboration in Women's Health

Spring 1998

• Nawal El Saadawi, MD, MPH, CRWG Scholar in Residence
• Experiences of Low Income and Poor Women with Breast Cancer

Fall 1997

• Research Information Network on Women and Girls
• Project Fair Play: Illinois Gender Equalities Commission

Summer 1997

• Society for Menstrual Cycle Research Celebrates Twenty Years of Advocating for Women's Health

Winter 1997

• Merri Dee to be Honored at Chicago Women Connecting Banquet

Fall 1996

• CRWG Celebrates 5th Anniversary
• Partnership Profiles: Lesbian Community Cancer Project

Summer 1996

• CRWG Hosts Urban Women's Health Study Group
• Partnership Profiles: Taylor Institute

Spring 1996

• CRWG Develops Manuscripts for Canada/USA Forum on Women's Health

Spring 1995

• CRWG Prepares Illinois Women and NGOs for the UN 4th World Conference on Women