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Women and Gender Studies Director and Professor, Dr. Angela J. Hattery and Sociologist Dr. Earl Smith – set to deliver the plenary session at the 2019 NASPA Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Conference: A NASPA Strategies Conference. The title of their talk, “I Was Attacked by My Classmate, But it was My College that did the Most Harm: The Role of Institutions in Perpetuating Gender Based Violence” is based on the research they conducted and compiled for the newest book, Gender, Power and Violence: Responding to Sexual and Intimate Partner Violence in Society Today.

This new report notes that in 2018, none of the American winners were foreign-born individuals who immigrated permanently to the United States. But the United States did play an important role in their formation; nine of the twelve 2018 Nobel Laureates were either students, teachers, or research fellows at U.S. institutions of higher education at some point in their lives.

Jayna Tavarez, a graduate certificate student of Women and Gender Studies is one of the recipients of the 2018 Distinguished Alumni Award from CHSS.

The abolitionist and iconic face of the Underground Railroad would be the first African American and first woman on a U.S. currency bill.

Dr. Jhumka Gupta, CHHS assistant professor of global and community health, with Courtney S. Harris, a Master of Public Health alumna, and colleagues, conducted the study that qualitatively examined teens’ perceptions of endometriosis and how girls’ social environment may affect their experience of endometriosis symptoms.