All Entries in the "Women’s Studies" Category
Mount Holyoke Alumnae Participating in Document Archival Project on the College’s History
Mount Holyoke College, the selective liberal arts college for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is using alumnae and other friends of the college to transcribe letters and diaries from the college’s Archives and Special Collections unit.
Boston University Leads Archival Project of Florence Nightingale’s Letters
The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University has led an international effort to make the correspondence of Florence Nightingale available online.
New Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology Opens at Arizona State University
Kimberly A. Scott, an associate professor in the department of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, is the founding executive director of the center. Last fall, Dr. Scott was appointed by President Obama to lead the National Academic STEM Collaborative.
University of Rochester Opens Archives of World War II Spy to Researchers
Joan Bondurant was a spy for the Office of Strategic Services during World War II and later became an educator and proponent of nonviolent social activism to promote change.
Rutgers University Making Progress on Funding for the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair
Rutgers University in New Jersey recently announced that it had raised more than $2 million to fund the Gloria Steinem Endowed Chair in Media, Culture, and Feminist Studies. The goal is to raise $3 million in time for Steinem’s birthday in March.
University of Louisiana Lafayette Recognized as a Breastfeeding-Friendly Workplace Champion
Lactation rooms have been set up in the student union, Bourgeois Hall, and the wellness center. Lactation information packets are available at each location.
Smith College to Offer a MOOC on the Psychology of Women’s Activism
The new online course, taught by psychology professor Lauren E. Duncan, is entitled “Psychology of Political Activism: Women Changing the World.” The course will begin in March 2016 and run for seven weeks. It is free to all participants.
Women Historians Create Online Database of Early Women Political Candidates
Two women scholars have established the Her Hat Was in the Ring online database of women who ran for public office before the enactment of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920, which gave women the right to vote nationwide.
A Milestone Appointment at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine recently celebrated a major milestone with the hiring this year of its 200th tenured woman professor since its founding 1893. Since then several other women have been hired pushing the total number to 214.
Smith College’s Oral History Project on Women of Rock Music
The video interviews and written transcripts put together by Tanya Pearson, an Ada Comstock Scholar at the college, will become part of the Sophia Smith Collection at the Smith College library.
Academic Consortium Develops the Online Breast Cancer Risk Calculator
The Breast Cancer Surveillance Consortium includes researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, the University of California, Davis, the Group Health Research Institute, and the Mayo Clinic. The consortium’s online tool can assess a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer within five to 10 years.
American University Launches a Certificate Program for Women Entrepreneurs in Pakistan
The School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C., and the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Pakistan have entered into partnership to offer a certificate program for women entrepreneurs.
How Government Policy Affects Women’s Ability to Juggle Work-Family Life
Caitlyn Collins, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, interviewed a large group of working mothers in the United States, Germany, Italy, and Sweden to understand their experiences balancing motherhood and employment.
The Only On-Campus MBA Program for Women Is Closing
Simmons College in Boston has seen declining enrollments in its on-campus MBA program for women. So it is now moving its MBA programs exclusively online and the new programs will be available for both men and women. Students in the new online MBA will have the option of an elective gender component.
Research Finds Women Were Disproportionately Quarantined for Venereal Diseases in Early 1900s
New research by Nicole Perry, a Ph.D. student in sociology at the University of Kansas, documents that that low-income women were disproportionately quarantined in prisons to prevent the further spread of venereal diseases in the post-World War I period.
Iowa State University Students Are Working on Landscaping Projects With Inmates at a Women’s Prison
The Iowa State team, led by assistant professor Julie Stevens, constructed three multipurpose outdoor classrooms. They planted 260 trees and about one acre of native prairie flowers and grasses. This year’s effort was devoted to a one-acre garden that is producing herbs and vegetables for the prison’s kitchen.
Purdue University Acquires Film Showing Amelia Earhart
The film was taken at the Union Air Terminal in Los Angeles in 1937 as Earhart was about to embark on her round-the-world flight. The plane disappeared during the flight and has never been found.
Seven Sister Colleges Launch an Online Historical Archive of Women in Higher Education
The archive includes a wide variety of materials including photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks, and diaries documenting the history of women in higher education.
New Five College Consortium Digital Project Examines Early American Fashion
Scholars in the Five College Consortium (Smith, Mount Holyoke, Amherst, Hampshire, and the University of Massachusetts) in western Massachusetts have established a new online archive called Historic Dress.
Should Women’s Collegiate Sports Teams Use “Lady” in Their Nicknames?
Nearly 100 colleges and universities who are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association use the term “Lady” to describe their women’s sports teams. The University of Tennessee has decided to no longer do so.
A New Center for Women in Business to Be Established at Texas Woman’s University
The new center will be the first of its kind in the region and will provide leadership opportunities to encourage and support women’s business ownership and success.
West Virginia University Acquires a Collection of Prints by Grace Martin Taylor
Taylor is considered one of the most innovative printmakers of the mid-twentieth century. She held bachelor’s and master’s degrees from West Virginia University was served as president of the Mason College of Music and Fine Arts, now part of the University of Charleston.
University of Pittsburgh Establishes a New Center on Women’s Health Research
The new center is dedicated to improving the state of women’s health by fostering innovation in research, education and clinical practice, while promoting community partnership and advocacy around health care for women.
Stanford Sociologist Finds Women More Worried Than Men About Becoming Parents
A new study by Brooke Conroy Bass, a doctoral student in sociology at Stanford University, found that among young heterosexual couples who had not yet had children, women were more likely than men to downsize their career objectives due to the anticipated duties of parenthood.
University of Missouri Debuts Oral History Project on Women in Journalism
The Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri has established an oral history project chronicling the battle for gender equality in journalism.
University of Virginia to Publish Martha Washington’s Letters
After her husband death, Martha Washington destroyed most of the correspondence between her and the nation’s first president. But thousands of letters between Martha Washington and others have survived.
Kent State University Announces a New Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
The center’s mission is to enhance and integrate the university women’s studies and LGBT studies programs. Associate professors Suzanne Holt and Molly Merryman will lead efforts to develop the new center.
University of Rhode Island Opens New Gender and Sexuality Center on Campus
The University of Rhode Island recently held grand opening ceremonies for its new Gender and Sexuality Center on campus. The 4,300-square-foot building has been under construction for the past year at a cost of $2.1 million.
Duke University Acquires a Vast Archive of Women’s Historical Materials
The Lisa Unger Baskin collection includes more than 8,600 rare books and thousands of other documents including manuscripts, journals, and artifacts. Included in the collection is the writing desk used by Virginia Woolf.
University of Houston Acquires the Papers of Maria Cristina Mena
Mesa was born in Mexico in 1893 to a well-to-do family and fled to New York to escape the Mexican Revolution. She wrote 11 short stories and five children’s books.
Iowa State University’s Vast Archive of Political Speeches and Ads of Women Candidates
The Women’s Political Communication Archives at Iowa State University are a vast database of speeches and campaign ads for over 300 women politicians and activists throughout American history.
Five Women Scholars Launch New Peer-Reviewed Journal, Sexualization, Media & Society
The five editors of the new journal are Deidre Condit and Jennifer Johnson of Virginia Commonwealth University, Ana Bridges of the University of Arkansas, Gail Dines of Wheelock College, and Carolyn West of the University of Washington.
New University Website and Journal Honors Idaho’s Women of Influence
The University of Idaho has debuted a new online resource “highlighting the contributions of women to Idaho’s history and contemporary society.” The initiative will also include a peer-reviewed journal.
Brandeis University Has Acquired the Archives of the Quarterly Magazine Lilith
The magazine was founded in 1976 and has the tagline “independent, Jewish, and frankly feminist.” The archives include notes, edited articles, editorial correspondence, photographs, manuscripts that were never published, and documents about the founding of the magazine.
New Website to Highlight the Contributions of Early Women Philosophers
A group of philosophers at Duke University, Columbia University, and the University of Pennsylvania are developing a website that hopes to highlight the contributions of early women philosophers.
