Contents:

CSWS:

Pg 1-2 CSWS Lands $250,000 Grant - Rockefeller Grant

Pg 1 CSWS by Sandra Morgen, Director

Pg 3 "Border Lies" to Look at Future of Backlash

Pg 3 Reception for New Women Faculty

RIGS:

Pg 4-5 Research Interest Groups

• Women's Health and Development, Jean Blanchard, Coordinator
• Women and Media, Beate Gersch, Co-Coordinator
• Gender in Historical and TransNational China, Cynthia Brokaw, Coordinator
• Women and Gender in Vietnam, Sandra Morgen, Coordinator

Pg 5 RIG Directory

Initiative Updates:

Pg 6-7 Initiative Updates

• Women's Health and Aging Research Initiative, Meredith Roberts Branch
• Feminist Humanities Project, Hannah Dillon
• Women in the Northwest Research Initiative, Sandra Morgen

Pg 7 Staff Update

Creative Center:

Pg 8-9 New CSWS Publications Focus on Women, Families, and Communities

Research:

Pg 10 Research Profile: Molly Johnson by Beth Hege Piatote

Pg 10-11 Research Profile: Anne Simons by Beth Hege Piatote

Pg 11 Research Profile: Lynn Stephen by Beth Hege Piatot

News:

Pg 12 In Memoriam: Marsha Ritzdorf ,1946-98

Pg 12 Wednesdays at Noon

Pg 13 Visiting Scholar to Study Gender, Mourning

Pg 13 UO Hosts Tauma Meeting by Jennifer J. Freyd

Awards:

Pg 14 CSWS Grants by Meredith Roberts Branch

Development:

Pg 15 From the Garden: Notes on Development by Judith Musick, Development Director

Author's Note:

Pg 16 Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade by Karen J. Ford