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Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII

150 Columbia University of Oregon

a In 1942, when computers were human and women were underestimated, a group of female mathematicians helped win a war and usher in the computer age.

Honoring Excellence in Research and Teaching

The Center for the Study of Women in Society offers congratulations to our CSWS Affiliates in the University of Oregon College of Arts and Sciences who have won research,  teaching, or community outreach awards from March 2010 through February 15, 2011. Recipients were honored February 15, 2011 at a reception in their honor in Gerlinger Lounge on the UO campus.

Three CSWS Associates Receive 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards

January 2011—Michael Hames-Garcia, professor and head of the Ethnic Studies Department; Janis Weeks, professor of biology; and Tina Gutierez-Schmich, a professional development specialist in the Center on Diversity and Community, are among the winners of the 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards at the University of Oregon.

Dance and the Hollywood Latina—Priscilla Peña Ovalle

Dance and the Hollywood Latina
a new book by Priscilla Peña Ovalle

UO assistant professor of film and media studies and a CSWS affiliate

Now available from Rutgers University Press

From the Rutgers University Press website:

2010-11 Lorwin Lecture Series

Women's Rights in a Global World

CSWS Initiates the Lorwin Lectureship on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties with a Series of Lectures, Workshops, and Symposia Focused on Women’s Rights.

In Memoriam: Peggy Pascoe

Peggy Pascoe

, whose research and teaching focused on the history of race, gender and sexuality, was the Beekman Professor of Northwest and Pacific History and professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon. With family and friends at her side, she died from ovarian cancer on July 23, 2010, at home in Eugene, Oregon.