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The WGS Program announces the Constance “Connie” Fournier Student Travel Award

The Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program has established a new travel award, thanks to a generous bequest by a donor. The Constance “Connie” Fournier Student Travel Award will be available to all UMaine undergraduate or graduate students whose research, scholarship, or creative/professional work incorporates feminist methods or perspectives or addresses issues of equity and justice. This award program is […]

WGS Affiliate Elizabeth Allan Receives Presidential Award

WGS Affiliate, Elizabeth Allan, professor of higher education, received the Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award. Allan has been a faculty member in the College of Education and Human Development since 2000. In her research philosophy statement, Allan notes that her work is rooted in the belief that “higher education can be a driver of […]

Adjunct-Lecturer Kristyn Gerow Accepted to Prestigious Screen-Writing Program

WGS is proud to announce that WGS adjunct-lecturer Kristyn Gerow has been accepted to a prestigious screen-writing program at Chapman University in Orange County California. We are sad to lose Kristyn who is a gifted teacher but we are proud and happy for her in this new adventure. Kristyn writes of her upcoming studies for […]

Mary Cathcart wins Minerva Award!

Mary Cathcart, long time member of the Maryann Hartman Award Committee and former Director of the NEW Leadership Program, has received the Minerva Award from the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. Congratulations to Mary! Cathcart receives 2021 Minerva Award

WGS Minor Maura Philippone Wins Award!

Maura Philippone ’20, WGS minor, who is pursuing a masters in speech language pathology at George Washington University in DC is interested in specializing interested in specializing in transgender voice and communication therapy and helping people find their true voices. Congratulation on winning the 2020 National Student Speech Language Hearing Association (NSSLHA) Scholarship!! Maura […]

WGS Sopomore Bell Gellis Morais in CLAS News

From the CLAS News: Bell Gellis Morais, a sophomore in psychology and women’s, gender and sexuality studies is developing K-12 curricula about the Grand Kankakee Marsh in Northern Indiana as part of a National Geographic Society grant. Gellis Morais is working with Katherine Glover, research associate at the Climate Change Institute (CCI) and recipient of a National Geographic Society […]

Cody Embelton’s NWSA Annual Conference Experience

NWSA Annual Conference 2019 – an Experience! by Cody Embelton Attending the NWSA conference in San Francisco constituted perhaps the most impactful and challenging experience of my undergraduate career. Apart from the engaging and enlightening programming, the setting of the conference served to be particularly poignant for my personal growth, having solidified my resolve for […]

WGS Double Major Wins George J Mitchell Peace Scholarship

The Office of International Programs sent this email: “It is my pleasure to share with you that Madison S. Riley, a double major History major and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, has been selected as one of the recipients of next year’s George J. Mitchell Peace Scholarship. Madison will spend Fall 2019 at the University College Cork […]

Maryann Hartman High School Essay Contest 2019 Winner

Neily Raymond is a junior at Hermon High School, where she serves as Editor of the Key Club, is a member of the National Honor Society, and performs regularly in dramatic productions. She is currently leading efforts to revive the school’s show choir, and is known for always having a book in hand. Neily hopes to […]

Susan K. Gardner has article in “Trends in Diversity”

Dr. Susan K. Gardner has collaborated with the Margaret Chase Smith Center Maine New Leadership Director and Sociology Professor Amy Blackstone on an article that has just come out in a new open source journal, Trends in Diversity: Mobilization in Response to Workplace Harassment: Lessons from One University Setting Amy Blackstone and Susan K. Gardner Abstract […]

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