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Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Associate Director Gwendolyn Beetham has been selected to receive a Models of Excellence Award. The Models of Excellence Award program celebrates the extraordinary achievements of full- and part-time staff across the University's schools and centers. This award recognies staff member accomplishments that reflect initiative, leadership, increased efficiency, and a deep commitment to service. 

The very first Program & Center Visiting Scholar Shenila Khoja-Moolji was promoted to Associate Professor at Bowdoin. While at Penn Dr. Khoja-Mooljil was a DCC post-doc for the "Citizenship on the Edge" programming theme. She also ran a conference on girls' education in Islamic nations. 
Read about Shenila's work on her website. 

Between August 16, 2021 and October 08, 2021, GSWS/FQT gathered data from Penn faculty, staff, post docs, and graduate students through its Caregiving on Campus Survey. The survey sought to measure the level of support employees with caregiving responsibilities had received from the University as of fall 2021, as well as feelings about return to campus policies. The survey also attempted to assess the needs of caregivers at the institutional and departmental level.

 
This month, Jessa Lingel, Rosemary Clark-Parsons, and Kim Bronciforte published the article "More than handmaids: Nursing, labor activism and feminism," which includes work that was supported by the Trustees' Council of Penn Women. Abstract:

The Eidos LGBT+ Health Initiative, led by Nursing School professor and FQT/GSWS affiliated faculty member José Bauermeister, aims to create a welcoming hub for students and faculty to engage in community-based research and teach students to produce innovative solutions to problems affecting the LGBTQ community. Read more information about the initative in this Penn Today piece.

FQT/GSWS congratulates Lisa Miracchi, associate professor of philosophy in the School of Arts and Sciences and FQT/GSWS Executive Board member. Miracchi has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for her project, New Foundations for the Study of Biological and Artificial Intelligence. Read more in The Almanac.

FQT/GSWS Affiliated Faculty Member Dalmacio Dennis Flores' work is featured in the Almanac's series, Talk About Teaching & Learning. Flores' piece, titled "Classroom Inclusivity: Lessons Learned and Strategies Moving Forward" pulls from Flores' experiences in the Department of Family and Community Health at Penn Nursing. He received the Department Award for Exemplary Teaching in May 2021 and received the Trustees’ Council of Penn Women Award for Undergraduate Advising in fall 2021.

FQT/GSWS Board Member and Weitzman Assistant Professor Akira Drake Rodriguez recently co-authored a piece in The Metropole on the Racialized History of Philadelphia's Toxic Public Schools. The long-defunded Philadelphia Public School system has been in the news in recent years for issues related to environmental health.

The GSWS/FQT community congratulates GSWS major Emily White on being named editor-in-chief of 34th Street Magazine. You can read the first issue of 34th Street published under their leadership on the 34th Street website.