Study: Women altering menstruation cycles in large numbers | AroundtheO.
A research team headed by Christopher Minson, a human physiology professor at UO and a CSWS faculty affiliate, shows that “a surprisingly large number of women 18 or older choose to delay or skip monthly menstruation by deviating from the instructions of birth-control pills and other […]
Category: Research
Juan Carlos Areán: “Transforming Men to End Violence Against Women”
[ April 10, 2014; 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] Lane Community College
Downtown Center
101 W. 10th Ave., Eugene, OR
Mr. Juan Carlos Areán is an internationally recognized public speaker, trainer and facilitator, published author and documentary film producer. Since 1991, he has worked to engage men across different cultures to become better fathers, intimate partners, and allies to end domestic violence and achieve gender equity. He […]
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 […]
Race & Ethnicity | New Book by Naomi Zack Now in Print
In Print: Race & Ethnicity | AroundtheO.
April 4, 2013 — “University of Oregon Philosophy Professor Naomi Zack’s newest publication, Race and Ethnicity (Bridgepoint Education, Inc., 2012), is a textbook that combines her earlier philosophical work examining the concept of race as culturally relative with a look at the social aspect of race being associated with […]
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 […]
Prominent UO historian among those who filed an amicus brief in US Supreme Court case that contests the validity of the Defense of Marriage Act
Recent blog entries on the websites for Inside Higher Ed and the American Historical Association provide details of an amicus brief filed March 1 in US v. Windsor, a case before the U.S. Supreme Court contesting the validity of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The brief, signed by the American Historical Association and a […]
