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2016 CSWS Annual Review now available

2016 CSWS Annual Review
CSWS is pleased to announce that the 2016 CSWS Annual Review is now available for your reading pleasure. If you are on our mailing list as a CSWS faculty affiliate, supporter, contributor, or UO administrator, the 2016 CSWS Annual Review should soon be arriving in your mailbox. You can also access this […]

In loving memory: Sandi Morgen 1950-2016

Pictured is former CSWS Director Sandi Morgen.

Sandra Lynn Morgen

March 31, 1950 – September 27, 2016
“Let me live lovingly, generously, courageously…”

Friday, September 30, 2016: 11:30 am: funeral service at Temple Beth Israel, 1175 E. 29th Ave., Eugene, OR (corner of E. 29th Ave. & University St.)
In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made to either or both of these organizations:
Community Alliance of […]

CSWS table at New Graduate Student Resource Fair and Orientation

Pictured is CSWS staff manning a table at the New Graduate Student Resource Fair.

2016-2017 New Graduate Student Resource Fair and Orientation on Tuesday, September 20th on the EMU green between the EMU and Straub Hall.
A student vists the CSWS table hosted by CSWS director Michelle McKinley, associate professor of law, and Dena Zaldua, CSWS operations manager, at the New Graduate Student Resource Fair.

In Memory of Joan Acker: 1924 – 2016

Pictured is Joan Acker.

[ August 27, 2016; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] Memorial Service: Saturday afternoon, Aug. 27, Gerlinger Lounge, UO campus

June 22, 2016—CSWS received word of the passing of feminist scholar Joan Acker, a leader of the original group that established a center to study women at the University of Oregon. Born in 1924, she joined the UO faculty in 1967 after earning her PhD in […]

Women in physics face big hurdles — still

Persistent biases continue to affect the numbers of female physicists.
August 1, 2016: “There are more women in the sciences than ever before. They hold leading faculty and administrative positions while their representation in fields such as biology, sociology and psychology has increased. Yet the physical sciences are woefully behind when it comes to the number […]

disjecta – Disjecta Dialogues: Charlene Liu and Wendy Red Star in Conversation

[ July 31, 2016; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] The Cleaners, Ace Hotel
Portland, OR
403 SW 10th Avenue at Stark St

Please join us for a conversation on art, family, and culture with Charlene Liu and Wendy Red Star. Presented By Ace Hotel Portland

Charlene Liu is an associate professor and the printmaking coordinator in the UO Department of Art and a member of the CSWS Women […]