Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Wayne State University in Detroit received a grant from ACCESS, the largest nonprofit Arab American human services organization in the United States for a study on cultural barriers to breast cancer screening among Arab women in Israel and in the United States. Earlier studies have shown that Arab American women tend to be diagnosed with breast cancer when the disease in later stages compared to women in other ethnic groups. The goal of the project is to develop culturally sensitive interventions that can be used to encourage Arab women and Arab American women to get early breast cancer screenings.
The research is under the direction of Kim Jaffe, an associate professor of social work at Wayne State University. Dr. Jaffe earned a master of social work degree at Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from the University at Albany of the State University of New York system.
Margaret Marsh, a University Professor of history at Rutgers University and her sister Wanda Ronner, professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine will share a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for research on the history of assisted human reproduction. The title of the grant program is “Infertility and Assisted Reproduction From the Development of In Vitro Fertilization to the Present: Medicine, Culture, Policy and Practice.” The sister team has written two books together: The Empty Cradle: Infertility in America from Colonial Times to the Present (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) and The Fertility Doctor: John Rock and the Reproductive Revolution (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).