All Entries in the "Women’s Studies" Category
How Stress Experienced by Pregnant Women Can Have Long-Lasting Impact on Their Offspring
The research conducted on mice found that mothers subjected to stress experienced a change in the bacteria that occurred in their gut and placenta. These bacterial changes were also found in the intestines of their offspring and these changes persisted as the offspring reached adulthood.
University Research Finds That Weight Training Can Be Beneficial to Breast Cancer Survivors
Lymphedema is a swelling of the arms and chest area that occurs because, when a woman’s lymph nodes are removed during breast cancer surgery, the body is unable to drain fluids that can build up in certain areas. Strength training and weight lifting has been shown to help.
Barnard College Acquires the Sabra Moore NYC Women’s Art Movement Collection
The collection includes organizational records from the feminist political artist group Heresies Collective, documentation of Moore’s work as a counselor at the first legal abortion clinic in New York, memorabilia from the 1984 demonstration against the Museum of Modern Art, and 20 original artworks from Moore’s contemporaries.
Wellesley College Offers a New Minor Degree Program in Comparative Race and Ethnicity
The new minor at the highly rated women’s college will allow students to create a structured yet individualized plan of study from interdisciplinary courses that offer rigorous and complementary approaches to understanding race and ethnicity.
New Group Established at Colorado State University to Help Women Students Transition to the Business World
The College of Business at Colorado State University has established the Women in Business Association (WIBA) to help women business students prepare themselves to compete in the marketplace once they leave school.
Barbara Ransby Elected President of the National Women’s Studies Association
Barbara Ransby is the Distinguished Professor of African American studies, gender and women’s studies, and history at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her two-year term as president will begin at the conclusion of the association’s annual conference in Montreal in November.
Ohio University to Offer a New Leadership Development Program for Women
The new program, called Women Leading OHIO, will provide mentoring, networking, and leadership training for 10 women faculty or staff members.
Maven Campus Offers College Women a Low-Cost, Online Healthcare Service
Maven Campus offers women college students unlimited private text messages to and from practitioners for $45 a month or $300 per year. College women who subscribe to this service will also be able to post anonymous question online and log in to see the answers.
University of Rochester Debuts Massive Online Archive of a Woman’s Diaries from 1893 to 1914
May Bragdon was the sister of architect Claude Bragdon. Her diaries spanning the years 1893 to 1914 offer a detailed look at the life of an ordinary woman over a 21-year period of rapid social and economic change.
Scholars Examine Challenges of Nurses Who Return Home From Combat Zones
A new book examines the challenges faced by military nurses when they return home from duty in war zones.
Auburn University to Set Up a Breastfeeding Support Tent at Home Football Games
The Auburn School of Nursing and Lactation Services will set up the Tiger Babies breastfeeding support tent that will be open three hours before kickoff of all home football games.
Ranking The States on Their Family Leave Laws and Policies
The report gave a grade of A to the state of California, the only state to earn the top grade. The report gave a grade of F to 12 states: South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Wyoming, Idaho, Nevada, and Arizona.
Website Names the Nation’s 50 Best Women’s Studies Programs
Harvard and Yale finished in the top two spots in the rankings followed by seven high-ranking and wealthy liberals arts colleges. Only three women’s colleges made the list of the top 50 women’s studies programs.
New Executive Leadership Program for Women at Rutgers University
Leadership Development for Early Career Women is an executive and professional education certificate program specifically designed for women who are three to five years into their career.
Colorado State University Grant Program Promotes Initiatives to Empower Women on Campus
The Women & Gender Collaborative at Colorado State University is now accepting grant proposals to promote programs that will produce longterm, positive impacts for women at the university. The grant program has been funded by an anonymous donor.
Website Names Its Picks for the Best Colleges and Universities for Women
The rankings come out very similar to those for the best national research universities published by U.S. News & World Report. The top five colleges and universities for women according to CollegeChoice are Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, and MIT.
Western Illinois University to Eliminate Degree Program in Women’s Studies
Western Illinois University in Macomb has announced that it is eliminating several degree programs due to low number of students pursing bachelor’s degrees in these fields. One of the degree program being eliminated is women’s studies.
A New Program to Promote Entrepreneurship Among Woman at the University of Nevada
The Women’s Initiative at the Ozmen Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Nevada at Reno aims to facilitate connections between women involved with entrepreneurial activities on campus with women involved in entrepreneurial activities in the community.
New Certificate Program in Leadership Effectiveness for Women at the University of Arkansas
The new initiative will be an 11-week certificate program designed to help women develop and strengthen skills important to professional and personal success.
Emory University Announces Paid Leave for Staff Members Who Become Parents
Emory University has announced an expansion of its parental leave benefit for women, and men, staff members who become new parents. Under the new policy, new parents who experience a birth or adoption can take three weeks of paid parental leave.
Princeton University’s Toni Morrison Papers Archive Is Now Available to Researchers
Professor Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities Emerita and the 1993 Nobel Prize winner for literature. She joined the faculty at Princeton in 1989 and taught creative writing classes until 2006.
University of Southern Mississippi Opens Its Evelyn Gandy Collection to Researchers
Evelyn Gandy was a pioneering woman in Mississippi politics. In 1948, she was elected to the Mississippi Legislature. Later, she was the first woman to be elected state treasurer, commissioner of insurance, and lieutenant governor.
Drexel University Opens New Postpartum Depression Clinic
Mother-Baby Connections encourages women to bring their babies to therapy sessions. It is one of only five such clinics nationwide and the only one in the mid-Atlantic region.
Ohio State University Partners With the Women’s Heart Alliance
Under the partnership the university and the alliance will screen and educate college-age women about the risks of heart disease and steps for preventing it.
University of Nebraska Receives a Major Donation to Support the Willa Cather Archives
A 1895 graduate of the University of Nebraska, Willa Cather produced numerous novels and short stories about life on the Great Plains frontier. In 1923, she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Now a nearly $6 million donation from Cather’s nephew will support research of her extensive archives housed at the University of Nebraska Libraries.
Adding Women to Corporate Boards Tends to Reduce Merger and Acquisition Activity
The study found that a change in female board representation from low to high levels was associated with an 18 percent decrease in acquisitiveness, a 12 percent decrease in acquisition size, and a reduction of $97.2 million in merger and acquisition spending in a given year.”
UCLA Acquires the Archives of Dance Photographer Barbara Morgan
Morgan studied art at UCLA from 1919 to 1923 and subsequently taught design, painting, and printmaking at the university. After taking time off to have two children, she turned her attention to photography.
The Higher Education Ties of the World’s Oldest American Women
The last American born in the nineteenth century died on May 12. Susannah Muschatt-Jones, a granddaughter of slaves, died in New York City at the age of 116. Unable to afford college tuition herself, later in life she set up a college scholarship fund for students in financial need.
West Virginia University Launches New Website Featuring the Pearl S. Buck Archives
The university became caretaker of the Pearl S. Buck archives in 2014 and is now making much of the collection available online. Buck was the first American woman to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for literature.
New Film on the Only Woman in the 1949 Graduating Class at the University of South Dakota Law School
Grace Steinberg Day was the only women in the 1949 graduating class at University of South Dakota School of Law. There were 175 men.
College of Business at the University of Georgia Launches New Women’s Initiative
The Terry Women’s Initiative is aimed at inspiring confidence and competence in women students to pursue their academic and career goals.
Yale Honors the First Seven Women to Earn Ph.Ds at the University
Yale University recently honored the first women to earn Ph.D.s at the educational institution by unveiling portraits of the scholars that will be permanently displayed on campus. The women all earned their doctoral degree in 1894.
University of Oregon Scholar Conducts an Oral History of Women in the Spanish Civil War Period
Gina Herrmann is associate professor of Spanish at the University or Oregon. In examining the the stories of Spanish women survivors of civil war and political incarceration, Dr. Herrmann hopes to shed light on the circumstances of many women political prisoners and refugees today.
University of Wyoming Scholars Seek to Ease Women’s Transition From Prison Back Into Society
Faculty of the Gender and Women’s Studies Program at the University of Wyoming have established the Wyoming Pathways from Prison Project, which has made recommendation on how to ease the transition of women back into general society after completing their prison sentences.
University of Michigan Acquires the Archives of Filmmaker Nancy Savoca
Savoca has been a filmmaker for 25 years. She won the grand jury prize at the inaugural Sundance Film Festival in 1989 for her film True Love.
