Category: Awards

Janis Weeks Brings a Grand Challenges Explorations Grant to UO

Janis Weeks, a CSWS faculty affiliate and  professor in the UO Department of Biology, Institute of Neuroscience, and African Studies Program, is the first UO researcher to be awarded a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. UO was named a winner of a Grand Challenges Explorations grant for a project proposed by Weeks that […]

CSWS Faculty Affiliate Bonnie Mann Named as Williams Fellow

Bonnie Mann Named 2013-14 Williams Fellow
From AroundtheO, May 24, 2013—Bonnie Mann, UO associate professor of philosophy and a CSWS faculty affiliate, is one of two UO faculty members designated as a Williams Fellow for 2013-14.
University of Oregon President Michael Gottfredson announced his acceptance on May 24 of the formal recommendations of the Williams Council for […]

Shannon Elizabeth Bell | Alumna Earns Distinguished Dissertation Honorable Mention

This story was published originally on the website of the University of Oregon Graduate School.
Shannon Elizabeth Bell, who earned her PhD in Sociology from UO in 2010, was awarded a rare honorable mention for the “Distinguished Dissertation Award” by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ProQuest Dissertation Publishing. First presented in 1981, these awards […]

2013 CSWS Jane Grant Fellowship and Graduate and Faculty Grant Awardees

Miriam Abelson planning her research trip to the southeastern U.S.
March 27, 2013—The Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon has awarded more than $70,000 in graduate student and faculty research grants to support research on women and gender during the 2013-14 academic year. Nine UO graduate students will receive […]

Carol Stabile Receives 2013 Farrar Award in Media & Civil Rights History

Carol Stabile—director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon, and professor, School of Journalism and Communication and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies—has received the 2013 Farrar Media and Civil Rights History Award for her article “The Typhoid Marys of the Left; Gender, Race and the […]

SOJC Professor Leslie Steeves Wins a 2013 UO Martin Luther King, Jr., Award

H. Leslie Steeves is one of seven winners of the UO’s 2013 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Award. Steeves, professor  and associate dean of Graduate Affairs and Research, UO School of Journalism and Communication, is also a long-time CSWS faculty affiliate. CSWS has helped fund her case study of the One Laptop Per Child Project […]