IRWG seed grant supports first-of-its-kind mHealth app for teen girls
by Laura Bailey As a clinical psychologist working with high-risk populations, Golfo Tzilos Wernette often listened to her young female patients’ concerns about pressure to have unprotected sex—especially if alcohol was involved. This population also has the highest rates of several sexually transmitted infections, which now hover at record levels overall. Tzilos Wernette, an assistant ...
Graduate Student Spotlight: 2019 IRWG/Rackham Community of Scholars
For more than two decades, IRWG and the Rackham Graduate School have partnered to offer a unique summer fellowship for graduate students. The Community of Scholars (COS) fellowship provides summer funding combined with a weekly seminar to support interdisciplinary feminist scholarship among PhD candidates. In 2019, ten students from fields across the humanities, social sciences, ...
Research Development Updates: A Note from Jocelyn Fenton Stitt, Fall 2019
September 20, 2019 Our annual newsletter, Genderscapes is a great time to share some of the successes we have had supporting faculty with funding for their research. Last year I provided feedback on grants worth almost seven million dollars. While not all of these were funded, below is a selection of those that were successful. ...
A Word from IRWG Director, Anna Kirkland, Fall 2019
September 20, 2019 Happiness research tells us that meaningful relationships and meaningful work make us happy. As researchers, we need to form interesting collaborations with others on campus. We need spaces and opportunities to talk about ideas and meet each other. It can be very hard to do that with days filled with teaching, meetings, ...