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Apr 28, 2025

Research Interest Group applications due May 1

Graduate students and faculty are invited to apply for up to $1,000 in funding to organize CSWS Research Interest Groups (RIGs) for the 2025-26 academic year.

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Apr 30

CSWS Noon Talk: Sammy Plezia

“‘Girls should be like this’: Impacts of Beauty Standards on Adolescent Girls in Goa, India” — Body dissatisfaction is a well-established risk factor for eating disorders, depression, and substance use, especially during adolescence. Body dissatisfaction is unusually prevalent among Indian adolescent girls—a high concern considering India is home to one-fifth of the world’s adolescent population (25 years or younger). Yet what we currently know about body dissatisfaction in India mainly comes from research with adults in urban areas using quantitative methods.

Apr 30 - 12:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

May 21

CSWS Noon Talk: Gretchen Nihill

"Signaling Safety for Women of Color: The Importance of Precision in Addressing Intersecting Identity Threat" – Researchers have historically underestimated the effects of racial prejudice on women of color due to the androcentric nature in which we think about social categories. For example, when we think about Black people, Black men come more easily to mind than Black women.

May 21 - 12:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

May 30

CSWS Noon Talk: Yuan Fang

“Mirror, Mirror, Who Held the Power After All?”: Rethinking Sex and Gender in Ancient China through the Lens of Bronze Mirrors – In Chinese archaeology, bronze mirrors are often interpreted as distinctly feminine objects associated with beauty, domesticity, and women’s spaces. These assumptions extend beyond the artifacts themselves, shaping how archaeologists interpret entire burials. Mirrors, hairpins, and ornaments are used to assign female identity to the deceased, while weapons or inkstones are taken as clear signs of masculinity.

May 30 - 12:00pm

Hendricks 330 (CSWS Jane Grant Room)

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Apr 28, 2025

Research Interest Group applications due May 1

Graduate students and faculty are invited to apply for up to $1,000 in funding to organize CSWS Research Interest Groups (RIGs) for the 2025-26 academic year.

Apr 14, 2025

Susan Sokolowski named a 2025 Women of the Year

Story by Capi Lynn. Photo by Kevin Neri. Published Feb. 27, 2025 by the Salem Statesman Journal. Sokolowski is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

Susan Sokolowski remembers the ill-fitting uniforms when she played youth and high school soccer as a Title IX athlete in New York state.

Apr 14, 2025

Back at the UO, Geri Richmond looks back on her federal service

Story by Matt Cooper. Photo by Nicolas Walcott. Published April 9, 2025 in OregonNews. Geri Richmond is a CSWS faculty affiliate.

After serving four years as undersecretary for science and innovation at the U.S. Department of Energy, chemistry professor Geraldine “Geri” Richmond is back at the University of Oregon’s Eugene campus.

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RIGs

Research Interest Group applications due May 1

CSWS Noon Talk: Sammy Plezia

CSWS Noon Talk: Gretchen Nihill

CSWS Noon Talk: Yuan Fang

Research Interest Group applications due May 1

Susan Sokolowski named a 2025 Women of the Year

Back at the UO, Geri Richmond looks back on her federal service