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First Annual GSWS Graduate Student Research Grants

The Alice Paul Center is happy to announce the First Annual GSWS Graduate Student Research Grants. These competitive grants of $500 each are designed to support research-related expenses, including (but not limited to) conference registration and travel, research travel, transcription and other materials. The grants cover expenses incurred during the Spring and Summer 2016 terms.

Alice Paul Center Accepting Applications for 2016-2017 Visiting Scholar Program

The Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality and Women invites applications for two Visiting Scholars from candidates in all the disciplines. The aim of the program is to enable the scholars to conduct independent research related to gender and sexuality while in residence at the University of Pennsylvania.

Congratulations to C. Neill Epperson, GSWS Core Faculty, on her NIH grant to establish the BIRCWH program at Penn

The National Institutes of Health has awarded GSWS Core Faculty member C. Neill Epperson, Director of the Penn Center for Women’s Behavioral Wellness and Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology, a grant to establish the Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) program at Penn, with Tracy Bale, Professor of Neuroscience. BIRCWH will support interdisciplinary research on health, sex and gender differences.

Congratulations to Patricia D’Antonio and Julie Fairman, GSWS Core Faculty, on their Excellence In Media Award

Nursing Outlook, the official journal of The American Academy of Nursing (AAN), has awarded GSWS Core Faculty members Julie Fairman, Professor of Nursing,  and Patricia D'Antonio, Professor in Undergraduate Education,  the 2015 Nursing Outlook Excellence in Media Award for their article, “History counts: How history can shape our understanding of health policy”. This award recognizes exemplary journalism that reports on health, or health care, with accurate and appropriate inclusion of nurses’ contributions or perspectives.