All Entries in the "Women’s Studies" Category
Vanderbilt Begins Planning for Campus Initiatives to Support Women On Campus
The provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University, Susan R Wente, has launched a planning phase for a new initiative on the status of women on campus.
The University of Georgia Celebrates Its Centennial of Women’s Higher Education
After the United States became involved in World War I, there was a lack of trained professionals in the state of Georgia. Meeting the demand, in 1918, the university began to allow women admittance to the College of Agriculture in the home economics program.
Florida Atlantic University’s New Women in Leadership Program
The College of Business at Florida Atlantic University has announced the establishment of the Kathleen Bush Program for Women in Leadership. The new certificate program has been created to provide highly driven women professionals with the skills necessary to succeed in executive management positions.
Vanderbilt University Examines Its History Regarding Women
Founded for the education of young men, Vanderbilt from its earliest days allowed a handful of women to attend classes as “listeners.” When Kate Lupton completed requirements for a master’s degree in 1879, she was was not allowed to participate in the commencement ceremonies due to her gender and received her diploma in private.
University of Tennessee Debuts Online Archive of the Works of Artist Catherine Wiley
Wiley enrolled at the University of Tennessee in 1895, only a few years after women were first admitted to the institution. After studying art in New York, she returned to Knoxville to teach freehand drawing at the University of Tennessee from 1905 to 1918.
Stanford University Study Examines Why Some Women Avoid the Spotlight at Work
In interviews with a large group of women who participated in a women’s professional development program operated by a nonprofit organization, researchers found that many of these women chose a workplace strategy that they named “intentional invisibility,” that was risk averse and avoided conflicts.
Duke University Acquires the Sarah Westphal Collection
The collection includes hundreds of books that were written, printed, illustrated or published by women some dating back to the seventeenth century.
Pamela Thoma to Lead the Women’s Studies Program at Washington State University
Dr. Thoma joined the faculty at Washington State University in 2007. She is an expert in Asian American literary and cultural studies, feminist media studies, and women’s literature.
MIT Compiles Archives of Its Pioneering Women Faculty Members
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries has launched a new initiative to acquire and preserve the archives of women faculty members. The effort began by asking faculty members who are nearing the end of their careers to consider donating their papers to the archive. So far four faculty members have complied and donated 234 boxes of material to the libraries.
Jane Fonda Donates Her Papers to Smith College
The Jane Fonda collection spans the years 1932 to 2016 and includes 132 boxes of materials. Included in the collection are biographical items, correspondence, writings, photographs, audiovisual materials and memorabilia.
University of Tennessee Creates Digital Archive Documenting the Work of Its First Home Demonstration Agent
Virginia Moore’s home demonstration work with women and girls on rural farms later expanded to incorporate all aspects of domestic life, including cooking, sewing, cleaning, and managing home finances. By 1916, she was the supervisor of 32 home demonstration agents.
Florida Atlantic University to Launch a Program for Women in Leadership
Dr. Kathleen Brush, a business executive, consultant, and author, donated $1.3 million to university that will be used to fund the Program for Women in Leadership, which will be named in her honor.
Women’s Studies Program to Be Revamped at Washington State University
As a result of the new alignment that will eliminate the department of critical cultures, gender, and race studies, many of the women’s studies faculty in that department will join either the department of English or the department of history and launch a new interdisciplanry program in Women’s Gender, and Sexuality studies.
College of William and Mary to Honor Its First Women Students
The marble plaque will contain the names of 24 women who enrolled at the college in 1918. At that time, the College of William and Mary became the first state-operated university in Virginia to admit women.
New Online Archive Honors Women’s Accomplishments at the University of Illinois
The University of Illinois has created a new website that celebrates women who have made significant contributions as students, faculty members, staff or alumni during the university’s 150-year history.
Documenting the Early History of Women at the University of New Mexico
The University of New Mexico has debuted a new online archive entitled “And Yet She Persisted: Documenting Women’s History in New Mexico.” The first phase of the projects deals with women at the university.
Harvard University Acquires the Papers of Professor Angela Davis
Professor Davis, who taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz until 2008, has been a political activist for most of her life, advocating for the rights of African Americans, women, and prison inmates.
University of Nebraska to Debut New Digital Archive of Willa Cather Letters
There are now 3,074 letters known to be authored by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Willa Cather. The letters are held in more than 90 repositories around the world, and scholars historically have had to travel to access them. The archive eventually aims to have all of the author’s letters available online.
The Iowa Women’s Archives at the University of Iowa Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary
The archives include nearly 1,200 collections of personal papers, records of women’s organizations, and oral histories of women from across the state.
Susquehanna University Is Raising Funds for a New Women’s Leadership Initiative
The chair and vice chair of the board of trustees have pledged $1 million over the next four years to fund the initiative, but only if the university can raise another $2 million in funds for the effort over the same period.
New Study Examines the Extent of Discrimination Faced by Women in the United States
Among the findings in the new report from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health are that more than a third of women with a college education said they had heard offensive remarks about their gender compared to only 8 percent of women who did not attend college.
Middlebury College Acquires Its First Painting of a Woman ‘Old Master’ Artist
The artist is Anna Stanchi who came from a well-known Roman family of still-life painters. The painting was signed and dated in 1643. The painting shows tulips, irises, daffodils, carnations, and hyacinths.
Mary Baldwin University Reaffirms Its Commitment to Women’s Education
Although it is transitioning to co-education, Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia, has announced several initiatives to reaffirm its commitment to educating young women.
In Medical Research, Gender Differences Are Explored More Often When Women Are on the Research Team
A new study conducted by researchers at Stanford University in California and Aarhus University in Denmark, finds that when women participate in the publication of a medical research paper, the research is significantly more likely to deal with gender differences in the way people react to diseases and treatments.
Kalindi Vora Appointed Director of the Feminist Research Institute at the University of California, Davis
The Feminist Research Institute is a collaborative, trans-disciplinary hub for exploring how gender, sexuality, race, and other social structures inform the design, execution, and interpretation of research. Among the institute’s current research projects are working groups on soil health, radical mycology, feminism and precision medicine, and speculative ecofeminist futures.
Research Team Using Artificial Intelligence to Reduce False Positive Diagnoses of Breast Cancer
False positives result from lesions that appear suspicious on mammograms and these lesions often have abnormal cells when tested by biopsy. As a result, patients undergo surgery to remove the lesion. But in 90 percent of the cases the lesions are benign.
New Report Examines the Status of Single Mothers in Higher Education
The number of single mothers enrolled in high education is growing both in absolute numbers and in their percentage of the total student population. However, these women face significant financial obstacles as well as time constraints that make it difficult for them to persist in higher education.
Colorado State University Offers a New Bachelor’s Degree Program in Women’s and Gender Studies
There has been a women’s studies program at the university for the past 40 years in the form of an interdisciplinary minor, an undergraduate certificate, and a graduate certificate. Now for the first time, undergraduate students can earn a degree in the field.
The New Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan
Anna Kirkland, the Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan, was appointed director of the institute, which is interdisciplinary and inclusive of the creative and performing arts as well as the humanities, social sciences, and the sciences.
Duke University Research Finds Women Do Not Have Prominent Roles in Many Films
To pass the Bechdel test, a movie must satisfy three basic requirements: it must have at least two named women in it, they must talk to each other, and their conversation must be about something other than a man. More than 40 percent of all Hollywood films don’t pass the test.
Rice University Receives the Archives of Musician Sara Hickman
Sara Hickman began performing at the age of seven. She has released 18 albums and has performed as a guest artist on more than 25 other albums by other artists. Hickman was named Texas State Musician in 2010.
UCSF-Led Study Finds Pregnant Women’s Exposure to Flame Retardants Leads to Lower IQ in Their Babies
In an important study led by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, it was found that pregnant women who had high exposure to flame retardants tended to have children with lower levels of intelligence. Flame retardants are commonly found in furniture and other household products.
University of Notre Dame Program Seeks to Increase Gender Diversity in the Financial Services Industry
The Institute for Global Investing and the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana have teamed up with the nonprofit organization Girls Who Inve$t, with the goal of increasing the number of young women in portfolio and asset management.
New Online Archive on How the Women’s Suffrage Movement Was Portrayed in the Media
The American Journalism Historians Association recently debuted an online archive of material relating to the women’s suffrage movement. The project is led by Brooke Kroeger, a professor and director of the graduate program in journalism at New York University.
Columbia University Offering a MOOC on Women’s History
Alice Kessler-Harris, the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor Emerita of American History in Honor of Dwight D. Eisenhower at Columbia University, has launched a massive open online course (MOOC) entitled “Women Have Always Worked.”
