CRWG Headlines

Help Us Reach Our Goal of Raising $25,000 for the Alice J. Dan Dissertation Research Award Endowment!

In 2007, Alice Dan, founding director of the CRWG and UIC Professor Emerita made a remarkable commitment. She presented the CRWG with a gift - 40% of the money that we need to raise to endow the Alice J. Dan Dissertation Research Award. With her seed money, Dr. Dan has challenged us to raise the additional $15,000 by 2011. The endowment will sustain the Dan Dissertation Research Award indefinitely, allowing the CRWG to support women and gender research at a time in a scholar's career when funding opportunities are limited. To give to the endowment, visit GIVE TO CRWG and select "Alice Dan Dissertation Awards."

2008 Alice J. Dan Dissertation Award Winners Announced!

The Center for Research on Women and Gender is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008 Alice J. Dan Dissertation Award. Both award winners will receive a financial award to assist with their dissertation research. The winners are: Deirdre Guthrie (Ph.D Candidate: Anthropology) and Catherine Jacquet (Ph.D Candidate: History and Gender and Women's Studies Concentration). Read more about the award winners and the Dan Dissertation award.

Veronica Arreola Selected for Women's Media Center 2008 Class of Progressive Women's Voices

Veronica Arreola, Director of UIC's Women in Science and Engineering Program and CRWG Assistant Director was selected to be part of the Women's Media Center's third and final 2008 class of participants for the Progressive Women's Voices Program. Progressive Women's Voices has provided 33 women from a variety of fields with intensive media training and ongoing support to promote their perspective and message into the national dialogue. Since the program began, the Women's Media Center has had an impact at the highest levels of the media. Participants have appeared on CNN and CBS Evening News, been quoted by The New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, placed op-eds in national papers like the Washington Post, and blogged about issues from the economy to race. For more information about the Progressive Women's Voices Program, visit http://www.womensmediacenter.com/progressive_womens_voices.html

Our Bodies, Ourselves Event Recording Now Available

On April 7, the CRWG celebrated the release of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth. The event featured Our Bodies, Ourselves Director, Judy Norsigian, and Carrie Klima, a faculty member from the UIC College of Nursing, discussing historical perspectives on pregnancy and childbirth in the U.S. The presentation was recorded by Chicago Amplified, a project of Chicago Public Radio. To listen to the presentation, visit http://www.chicagopublicradio.org/Content.aspx?audioID=25957

CoE Launches Heart Health Campaign in Southern Illinois

The Heart Smart Campaign was initiated as part of the Southern Seven Women's Initiative for Cardiovascular Health, a collaboration among the UIC Center of Excellence in Women's Health, the Southern Seven Health Department, The Cooper Institute, and the Illinois Department of Public Health Office of Women's Health. The Heart Smart Campaign includes (1) "Heart Smart for Women", community education classes to help women increase their physical activity and eat healthier; (2) "Heart-to-Heart", a peer education program in which women who complete HSFW learn how to talk about health with friends and family members; and, (3) a media outreach campaign. For more information about the Heart Smart Campaign, visit http://www.heartsmartpledge.org

UIC BIRCWH Program Supports 4 Women's Health Scholars

The UIC BIRCWH Program is a women's health research career development program (National Institutes of Health K12 Grant) that was awarded to the UIC Center of Excellence in Women's Health in September 2007. The purpose of the BIRCWH program is to optimize the success of junior faculty in developing a substantive and sustained research program in women's health science. Three junior faculty are currenlty participating in the BIRCWH program: Joanna Burdette, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy, College of Pharmacy; Colleen Corte, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health, Mental Health and Administrative Nursing, College of Nursing; Bryna Harwood, MD, MS, Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine; and Hyunyoung Jeong, PharmD, PhD, Assistant Professor, College of Pharmacy. For more information about the BIRCWH program at UIC visit http://www.uic.edu/orgs/womenshealth/bircwh.htm

Women's Health Graduate Concentration Now Available

The Interdepartmental Graduate Concentration in Women's Health was approved by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees In January 2006. This concentration was developed to address the need for researchers, administrators, educators, and practitioners across disciplines to obtain the skills and knowledge necessary for professional work within the field of Women's Health. The concentration is offered to graduate level students in the College of Nursing and the School of Public Health. Additional academic units will be added in the near future. For more information, visit http://www.uic.edu/nursing/forms/WHConcentrationWebInfo.pdf

CRWG Programs

• Center of Excellence in Women's Health
• Women in Science and Engineering (WISE)
• Women in Science and Engineering System Transformation STEM Faculty (WISEST)
• Research Information Network for Women and Gender in Illinois
• Alice J. Dan Dissertation Award