15 Undergraduates Selected for First SOAR Cohort
September 2021 In June, IRWG received a five year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and implement an innovative academic and research mentoring program for undergraduate students across the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) is a multi-component theory-based two-year long research education mentoring program ...
Addressing equity in research participation incentives
June 2021 Last month, faculty and research staff from the School of Public Health, IRWG, and other research teams and organizations sent an open letter to the Office of the Vice President for Research with more than 380 signatures to advocate for equity in incentive payments for human research subjects. The university currently offers several ...
IRWG awarded $1.2M grant to launch research education mentoring program for undergraduate students
June 1, 2021 The Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) received a five year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop and implement an innovative academic and research mentoring program for undergraduate students across the University of Michigan’s Ann Arbor campus. The Student Opportunities for AIDS/HIV Research (SOAR) Program, ...
UROP Poster Award
Congratulations to LSA student Lauren Doyle for earning a Blue Ribbon award for her outstanding poster and presentation during the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program virtual symposium! Lauren worked with IRWG researcher Michael Heaney on his project studying political protests.
Giving Blueday 2019
IRWG is pleased to participate in Giving Blueday once again this year! What is Giving Blueday? Giving Blueday is the University of Michigan’s annual day of giving. Scheduled to coincide with Giving Tuesday, a global day of giving following Thanksgiving weekend, Giving Blueday is a day for everyone who loves Michigan to join together to ...
New Research Collaborations: Building Scholarly Community to Address Big Questions
Under Anna Kirkland’s directorship, IRWG is growing as a networking hub for research collaborations that seek to tackle big societal issues related to gender. “Questions about gender are everywhere, but on a large, decentralized campus like Michigan’s, it can be hard for researchers to connect. This is where IRWG comes in,” explains Professor Kirkland. Three ...
Sexual Harassment in the Academy – A Fall 2018 Panel Discussion Series
In 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine assembled a committee to conduct a study on the impact of sexual harassment in academia on the career advancement of women in the scientific, technical, and medical workforce. The committee published a comprehensive report titled, “Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic ...
2018 Faculty Seed Grant Awards Announced
We are proud to announce nine Faculty Seed Grant recipients for projects on women, gender, and sexuality. The grants support individual research activities, as well as collaborative projects, pilot studies, and initial research efforts. The 2018 recipients and their projects are: Charlotte Albrecht – Department of American Culture The Sexual Politics of Settling: Arab Americans, Settler ...