The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy at the University of California, Berkeley, will address the nation's most pressing societal, economic, environmental, and political challenges. Pelosi will teach a class on the Congress.
Under a new agreement, the university will assume responsibility for all research components of the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation and its grant activities. Pamela Moalli, a leading physician-scientist in urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, has been named executive and scientific director of the institute.
Switzer, a two-time alumna of Syracuse University, made history in 1967 when she became the first woman to officially register for and run in the Boston Marathon. A successful broadcast journalist, Switzer has been instrumental in advancing the sport of women's running over the past several decades.
The University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine has partnered with Norvatis to expand access to early breast cancer detection among women from underserved communities in Los Angeles County. In addition to providing direct care, the partnership will focus on leveraging data science to identify gaps in healthcare access and develop solutions.
As a scholar, Dr. Hesse-Biber is known for her research on women's health and body image, women and work, feminist sociology, mixed method inquiry, and hereditary breast cancer. She has retired from Boston College after 50 years of service.
“This encyclopedia comes at a time when matters related to gender and education are increasingly fraught and urgent in the United States and globally and is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to understand how gender shapes educational experiences and outcomes,” said co-editor Sherry Deckman of the City University of New York.
Using data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Guttmacher Institute, Pew Research Center has analyzed several decades of information on abortion in the U.S., including the number and rate of abortions over time and the demographics of women who have experienced the procedure.
Through this new initiative, researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey aim to address the widespread gaps in the scientific understanding of women's brain function. Ioana Carcea, associate professor in the department of pharmacology, physiology, and neuroscience at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, has been selected to lead the program.
State-level abortion bans have led to substandard medical care for miscarriages, according to a new study led by clinician-scientists at Oregon Health & Science University.
Megan Fitzhugh and Judy Pa of the University of California, San Diego are co-authors of a new study that found women not only have a higher prevalence of certain dementia risk factors, but also experience stronger cognitive decline associated with other risks that are more common in men.
