Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies Newsletter: January 2018

A Snowy Sharky Update

Events

"City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965"
Critical Disability Studies Collaborative Events
"Unsettling the Revolutionary Subject: Feminist Implications of the Egyptian Revolution"
"The Third Moment of Sun: Black Elders and Generational Politics in Early America:
"Responding to Immigrant and Refugee Health: A Minnesota Story"
LGBTQ Summer Institute
ICGC Schedule of Events
"Tia-Simone Gardner- Neither One Or Somewhere In Between"
Cross-Cultural Leadership Retreat
Upcoming Lectures on the History of Medicine
NWSA Webinar on Academic Freedom
Masculinities and Violence Prevention (HAPPENING TODAY)
Nidoto Nai Yoni: Forgetting and Remembering the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans
Virtual Violence: Refusing Redress in Gina Kim's "Bloodless/Dongducheon"
Civil Rights Movement and Performing Arts

Call for Papers/Applications

The Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Engendering Change Graduate Student Conference
International Graduate Student Research Conference: Navigating Hot Water: Defiant Pathways Through the Next Millenium
Humanities Through the Ages
American Studies Symposium "Race, Difference, and Public Space"
NWSA Call for Proposals

Scholarship/Fellowship/Job Opportunities

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Asian American Studies Department
Environment America Fellow Position
The National Endowment for The Humanities Grant
Economic Development Fellowship
Anna Julia Cooper Fellowship
Position in Gender Studies- Sydney, Australia
Acara Challenge
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Futures Initiative & Humanities Alliance
Apply for the Imagine Fund Arts, Humanities, and Design Chair position and Special Event Funding
Minnesota Futures Grant Program
Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows
WorkArt Fellowship Program
Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Environmental Studies at Duke University
Seeding Change Fellowship

Miscellaneous

"Best Dissertation" Award Nomination
New Graduate Minors
Study Abroad with Acara
Reading Partners Volunteer Opportunity

EVENTS:

"City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965" THE IMMIGRATION HISTORY RESEARCH CENTER is hosting “City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965” on Thursday, January 25 from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in Andersen Library Room 120. For more information, click here.
Critical Disability Studies Collaborative Events THE CRITICAL DISABILITY STUDIES COLLABORATIVE is hosting many events throughout the spring semester. The first event is the January reading group: Excerpts from The Right to Maim by Jasbir Puar on Friday, January 26 from 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM in Scott Hall Room 4. For more information and a schedule of events, click here.
"Unsettling the Revolutionary Subject: Feminist Implications of the Egyptian Revolution"THE MIDDLE EAST AND ISLAMIC STUDIES GROUPS is hosting Professor Nadine Naber for her lecture “Unsettling the Revolutionary Subject: Feminist Implications of the Egyptian Revolution” on Wednesday, January 31 at 4:00 PM in the Social Sciences Building Room 710. For more information, click here.
"The Third Moment of Sun: Black Elders and Generational Politics in Early America" THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY is hosting Professor Frederick Knight on Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 3:30 PM in Heller Hall Room 1210 for his talk “The Third Moment of Sun: Black Elders and Generational Politics in Early America.” Professor Knight will use generation as a category of analysis to interpret early African-American history in this talk. For more information, click here.
"Responding to Immigrant and Refugee Health: A Minnesota Story" THE PROGRAM IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE is hosting “Responding to Immigrant and Refugee Health: A Minnesota Story” on Friday, February 9, 2018 in Moos Tower 2-690. In this talk, historian and physician Neal Holtan will describe the history of immigrant and refugee health in the U.S. and Minnesota, and William Stauffer will describe his accidental career with the CDC offering personal insights into health considerations and preventative interventions for U.S. Bound refugees.
LGBTQ Summer Institute More information about opportunities for study, participating faculty, and logistics is available on the website: www.fau.edu/artsandletters/lavender-languages.

No tuition charged. Small administrative fee required. Housing available on the FAU campus. Application/registration is now open. See the website for the link.
ICGC Schedule of Events Click HERE for the Spring 2018 ICGC Spring Schedule of Events.
"Tia-Simone Gardner- Neither One Or Somewhere In Between" Neither One Or Somewhere In Between
February 10th @ 5:30pm

Neither One or Somewhere In Between opens February 10th at 5:30pm at the Marsden/Gustafson Gallery:FilmNorth

550 Vandalia Street, Suite 120
Saint Paul, MN 55114

Click here for more information.
Cross-Cultural Leadership Retreat International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS) is currently looking for both US and international graduate and professional degree students to apply for the Cross-Cultural Leadership Retreat. Primarily for international students, but there are some spots open for students from the US as well.

Date and time:

Friday, March 23 (5pm – 9pm)

and

Saturday, March 24 (10am – 5:30pm)

(must be able to attend both days fully)

Location: 101 University International Center, East Bank <http://campusmaps.umn.edu/university-international-center>

This retreat is for international and US graduate and professional degree students who want to become more effective in international environments. This interactive, high-energy event becomes a living laboratory of what it takes to work with people from different cultures. Participants start friendships with people from all over the world and discover their own leadership potential. A cutting edge cross-cultural leadership model, Personal Leadership, will be used to develop participants' cross cultural skill-set that is needed for professional and personal lives in the 21st century. Space is limited, so apply online by noon on March 14 at http://www.isss.umn.edu/programs/ccl-retreat.html

Students who complete the retreat are then invited to join the Culture Corps program and receive individualized mentoring. You will also get this cross cultural leadership experience noted in your Experience Record.

Applicants will be notified via e-mail on March 14th at 4:00 pm regarding acceptance.
Upcoming Lectures on the History of Medicine

Friday, Jan. 26, 2018

Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Friday Colloquium Series

A Charles E. Culpeper Lecture in the History of Medicine

Speaker: Nancy Tomes, Dept. of History, Stony Brook University, “’Recovery’ as Concept, Model, and Movement in the Mental Health Field: The Challenge of Writing a ‘History of the Present’”

3:35pm-4:45pm, 155 Nicholson Hall

Friday, Feb. 9, 2018

Driven to Discover: The History of Minnesota’s Medical Innovations Lecture Series

Speakers: Dr. Neal Holtan, Preventive Medicine and Public Health Physician and Historian, and Dr. William Stauffer, Prof. of Medicine and Pediatrics, Univ. of Minnesota, "Global to Local to Global Again: Immigrant and Refugee Health in Minnesota."

12:15pm-1:15pm, Moos 2-690

**NOTE: Please be aware of day, time, and location!!

Friday, Feb. 16, 2018

Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Friday Colloquium Series

A Charles E. Culpeper Lecture in the History of Medicine

Speaker: Cynthia Connolly, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, “A ‘Big Business Built for Little Customers:’ Children and the Flavored Aspirin Market in the United States, 1948-1973.”

3:35pm-4:45pm, 155 Nicholson Hall

Friday, Feb. 23, 2018

Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Friday Colloquium Series

Speaker: Nahyan Fancy, Dept. of History, Depauw University, “Did Humoral Theory Undergo any Changes in Post-Avicennian Medicine? Examples from the Commentaries of Ibn al-Nafis (d. 1288) and his Successors in Western Eurasia.”

3:35pm-4:45pm, 155 Nicholson Hall

Monday, Mar. 5, 2018

Program in the History of Medicine Lunchtime Lecture Series

A Bruce and Sally Kantar Lecture in the History of Medicine

Speaker: Kim Heikkila, Ph.D., Oral Historian, author of Sisterhood of War: Minnesota Women in Vietnam

12:20pm-1:10pm, 555 Diehl Hall

Friday, Mar. 23, 2018

Program in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine Friday Colloquium Series

A Charles E. Culpeper Lecture in the History of Medicine

Speaker: Rebecca Kluchin, Dept. of History, California State University-Sacramento, “Court-Ordered Cesarean Sections in 1980s America.”

3:35pm-4:45pm, 155 Nicholson Hall

Monday, April 30, 2018 (Please note this is LAST Monday of April)

Program in the History of Medicine Lunchtime Lecture Series

A C.C. and Dawn Clawson Lecture in the History of Medicine

Co-sponsored by the Environmental Humanities Initiative and the Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine

Speaker: Nancy Langston, Ph.D., Prof. of Environmental History, Michigan Technological University, title TBD

12:20pm-1:10pm, 555 Diehl Hall
NWSA Webinar on Academic FreedomNWSA’s leadership is committed to monitoring and protecting academic freedom in our field. The Governing Council voted to create an ad-hoc committee on academic freedom at its November 2016 meeting. Karma Chávez, Associate Professor of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at the University of Texas, Austin and LaMonda Horton Stallings, Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland co-chair the committee.

Join Chávez, Stallings, and Piya Chatterjee to learn about the history of academic freedom in higher education, how conflicts over academic freedom affect WGSS departments and programs, and strategize about how to protect academic freedom on your campus.

NWSA WEBINAR ON ACADEMIC FREEDOM
Friday February 9, 2017
4:30 PM EST

Click here to register no later than Tuesday February 6, 2018
$40 Member
$60 Non Member

Karma R. Chávez is an associate professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies and affiliate in the Departments of Communication Studies, Rhetoric and Writing, and the Center for Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Texas - Austin. She is author of Queer Migration Politics: Activist Rhetoric and Coalitional Possibilities (University of Illinois Press, 2013).

Piya Chatterjee is Backstrand Endowed Chair of GWS at Scripps College where she is Chair of Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS). Piya writes and teaches on labor, colonialism and decolonial pedagogies. She has co-edited two volumes, The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent (UMN) and States of Trauma: Gender and Violence in South Asia (Zubaan). She is currently series editor for Decolonizing Feminisms at the University of Washington Press.

LaMonda Horton-Stallings is Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park. She is the author of Mutha is Half a Word!: Intersections of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture (2007) and Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (2015). She is also co-editor with Greg Thomas of Word Hustle: Critical Essays and Reflections on the Works of Donald Goines (2011).
Masculinities and Violence Prevention The year 2017 brought a stream of media attention to violence and harassment by men against women. What can we do in 2018 to better address gender-based violence, both globally and locally? Join in this panel dialogue on connections between masculinity and violence and actions we can take to address this problem. 5-7 p.m., Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey School.
Nidoto Nai Yoni: Forgetting and Remembering the Wartime Incarceration of Japanese Americans Opening Reception: January 26, 2018 from 6:30pm-8:30pm

East Side Freedom Library, 1105 Greenbrier Street, Saint Paul, MN 55106

Artist John Matsunaga's Statement: This exhibit presents photographs of the physical remnants of the ten American concentration camps that were used to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II. In 1942, approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans that lived within the western United States were forcibly removed from their homes, imprisoned in American concentration camps for up to four years, and denied their constitutional rights because of their Japanese ancestry.

Here the event is on the ESFL website: http://eastsidefreedomlibrary.org/events/nidoto-nai-yoni-opening-reception-of-john-matsunagas-photography-exhibition/
Virtual Violence: Refusing Redress in Gina Kim's "Bloodless/Dongducheon" A talk by Dr. Grace Hong
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Nolte Center room 140, 315 Pillsbury Dr SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455
Civil Rights Movement and Performing Arts 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Tate Hall room 105, 116 Church St SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455

The Department of Asian Languages and Literatures (ALL) is hosting a Japanese American duo who are the founders of San Jose Taiko, and hold an event called the "Civil Rights Movement and Performing Arts". This season, TaikoArts Midwest is offering free monthly concerts called "Taiko Tuesday", and PJ & Roy will come from San Jose to be our guest performers for the February performance. ALL is very fortunate to be provided with this great opportunity to have them as guest speakers for a talk & taiko demonstration on campus.

Questions about this event? Contact Michiko T. Buchanan at: buch0119@umn.edu

CALLS FOR PAPERS/APPLICATIONS:

The Workshop on the Comparative History of Women, Gender, and Sexuality is currently seeking faculty and graduate student papers for their Spring 2018 schedule. THE WORKSHOP ON THE COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF WOMEN, GENDER, AND SEXUALITY is currently seeking faculty and graduate student papers for their Spring 2018 schedule. The workshop is normally held on Fridays from 3:30 – 5:00 PM. If you are interested in sharing a paper or serving as a faculty commentator this fall, please contact Michael Kadow, kadow003@umn.edu, and/or Anna Clark, clark106@umn.edu. For more information, click here.
Engendering Change Graduate Student Conference THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO is pleased to announce its call for submissions for the eighth annual Engendering Change graduate student conference on April 14, 2018. Please upload an abstract of no more than 300 words, title, and keywords here by Monday, January 22 at 5:00 PM CST. For more information, click here.
International Graduate Student Research Conference: Navigating Hot Water: Defiant Pathways Through the Next Millenium THE CENTRE FOR RESEARCH ON LATIN AMERICAN AND THE CARIBBEAN AT YORK UNIVERSITY is pleased to announce it call for proposals for its fifth International Graduate Student Research Conference: Navigating Hot Water: Defiant Pathways Through the Next Millenium on March 16-17, 2018 at York University. Please upload your submission, maximum 300 words, here by Friday, January 26. For more information, click here.
Humanities Through the Ages THE HUMANITIES EDUCATION AND RESEARCH ASSOCIATION is pleased to announce its call for papers for its 10^th Annual Conference Humanities through the Ages on March 7-10, 2018. Proposals for papers, panels, or workshops (150-200 words) must be submitted through the conference submission portal on the HERA website. For more information, click here.
American Studies Symposium "Race, Difference, and Public Space"PURDUE UNIVERSITY is pleased to announce its call for papers for its 43^rd Annual American Studies Symposium “Race, Difference, and Public Space” on April 28 – 29, 2018. The Symposium Committee invites all those interested to submit papers, posters, andpanels. Panels should consist of three papers. All proposals should include an abstract no longer than 250 words in length. The submissions deadline is Thursday, February 1 at 11:59 PM. For more information, click here.
NWSA Call for Proposals
Proposal Submission Deadline: February 21, 2018
The online submission system will open by February 1. Please note: All submitters and presenters must have a valid individual NWSA log in and password to submit/be included in a submission. Valid log ins include current individual members, expired individual members and guest log ins. See the FAQ for more details. For more information, click here.

SCHOLARSHIP/FELLOWSHIP/JOB OPPORTUNITIES:

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Asian American Studies Department THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN’S ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES DEPARTMENT is accepting applications for one postdoctoral research associate for the 2018-2019 academic year. This position has a $47,476 salary paid over a 12-month period, $5,000 in research funds, and a comprehensive benefits package. Applicants must have received a doctorate or appropriate terminal degree within the past five years or have completed this requirement by July 31, 2018. The target start date is August 16, 2018and are for a nine-month period. Applications are due by Monday, January 22 at 5:00 PM. For more information, click here.
Environment America Fellow Position ENVIRONMENT AMERICA is accepting application for their Environment America Fellow position. The early application deadline is Wednesday, January 31. The target annual compensation for this position is $26,500 in the first year. Environment America also offers a competitive benefits package and an excellent training program and opportunities for advancement. For more information, click here.
The National Endowment for The Humanities Grant THE NATIONAL ENDOWNMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES has many Winter and Spring 2018 Grant Opportunities. These include Summer Seminars and Institutes and Landmarks of American History and Culture: Workshop for School Teachers. The application deadline is Thursday, February 22. For more information, click here.
Economic Development Fellowship Interested in gaining experience in a management consulting environment and working on an interdisciplinary team on real industry projects?
The Economic Development Fellows Consulting Program is kicking off the year with a new round of consulting internship opportunities for spring 2018. These semester-long volunteer internships are modeled after consulting engagements and offer postdoctoral fellows and graduate students a valuable opportunity to bridge the gap between academia and industry, and gain professional experience providing consulting services for Minnesota businesses and organizations.

Consulting interns are led by an experienced economic development fellow and work in diverse, interdisciplinary teams of 4-6 interns. They are expected to spend ~5 hours per week working on the project, though this is largely on a flexible schedule, making it easy to work around research and classes. Participants from all disciplinary backgrounds are encouraged to apply. You do not need to have any previous consulting experience to be accepted.

There will be an information session for interested students and postdocs on Monday, January 22 from 4-5:30 in 402 Walter Library. Register for the information session.

While attendance at the info session is not required in order to submit an application for the current cycle, it is encouraged. The project leads will be in attendance and will be able to answer your questions about the projects, as well as what it's like to participate in the program.

Project information for spring 2018 is posted on the EDF website for students and postdocs who are interested in learning more and applying.

The application for spring 2018 project teams is due on Sunday, January 28, 2018 at midnight.
Questions? Contact frontdoor@umn.edu.
Anna Julia Cooper Fellowship The Anna Julia Cooper Center invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship on gender, race, and American politics. The Anna Julia Cooper Center is an interdisciplinary center at Wake Forest University with a mission of advancing justice through intersectional scholarship. The AJC Center supports, generates, and communicates innovative research at the intersections of gender, race, and place, sustaining relationships between partners on campus and throughout the nation in order to ask new questions, reframe critical issues, and pursue equitable outcomes. Central to that mission is creating a hub for intellectual collaboration, collegial interaction, and scholarly support of interdisciplinary research with attention to intersectional identities and experiences. We invite scholars engaged in research similarly positioned to apply. For more information or to apply click here.
Position in Gender Studies- Sydney, Australia The Sociology department at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia is searching for a candidate for a new position in Gender Studies: For more information, click here.
Acara Challenge Do you have an idea to change the world? Get funding!
Initial application due: February 4, 2018
The Acara Challenge is an annual competition that rewards up to $5,000 to UMN students creating solutions to social and environmental challenges. The competition will occurFebruary 27 - March 1, 2018. Find more information and apply to compete in the Acara Challenge
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Futures Initiative & Humanities Alliance Do you have a PhD in the humanities or interpretive social sciences? Are you interested in designing research and public projects related to equity, access, and the future of the humanities in community colleges and throughout higher education? If so, this two-year postdoctoral fellowship may be for you! Together with the CUNY Humanities Alliance, the Futures Initiative is seeking a postdoctoral fellow to work with both programs on better understanding the impact of the Humanities Alliance program and its potential to be a model for other institutions. For full details, please visit our website. Apply by February 15, 2018 at bit.ly/cunyhums-postdoc (CUNY Job ID: 17983). Scholars of color, people with backgrounds historically underrepresented in the academy, and people with direct experience in community colleges are strongly encouraged to apply. Please contact Katina Rogers, Director of Administration and Programs for the Futures Initiative, if you have any questions. krogers [at] gc.cuny.edu
Apply for the Imagine Fund Arts, Humanities, and Design Chair position and Special Event funding Imagine Fund grant programs support leading-edge, innovative lines of research or scholarship that may not otherwise be possible. The application deadline for the Imagine Fund Arts, Humanities, and Design Chair position is Apr. 23. Special Event (Round 2) funding applications close on March 19.
Minnesota Futures Grant Program Letters of Intent are now being accepted for the Minnesota Futures grant program, administered by the Office of the Vice President for Research. The program promotes new research and scholarship that address societal challenges by fostering opportunities for researchers to advance new ideas and cross-disciplinary boundaries. Letters of Intent are due Feb. 19; the deadline for proposals is March 19.
Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for the Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows program. The program places recent PhDs from the humanities and humanistic social sciences in two-year term staff positions at partnering organizations in government and the nonprofit sector. Applications due March 14, 2018.
WorkArt Fellowship Program The Center for German & European Studies is pleased to announce the WorkArt Fellowship Program in Germany in summer 2018, for students interested in an immersive arts and culture experience abroad. The program provides opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to gather valuable work experience in the nonprofit sector at one of Germany's 300+ community-based nonprofit art associations and galleries. Applications due February 26th, 2018.
Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Environmental Studies at Duke University The Duke University Program in Gender, Sexuality & Feminist Studies invites applications for a residential postdoctoral fellow in Feminist Environmental Studies for the 2018-2019 year. Through research, teaching, and service, the fellow will contribute to the overall work of the GSF Program. We seek candidates with interdisciplinary experience in Gender/Women’s/Sexuality Studies and a record of scholarship in environmental studies (broadly conceived). Postdoctoral fellows are expected to design and teach an undergraduate course in this field and to support the integration of feminist environmental studies through a variety of potential activities across the fellowship year (e.g., outreach to student groups, mentoring graduate students, participating on panels). The fellowship includes a stipend, health insurance, and shared office space. Applicants should have PhD in hand by July 1, 2018 and be no more than three years past the PhD. In addition to your letter of application, please include a 1000 word project proposal (with 1 page bibliography), a C.V., and names and contact information for three references. Please submit application electronically by February 20, 2018through AcademicJobsOnline.org. Please note that finalists will be asked to submit three reference letters, a writing sample, and course proposal. GSF program information is available at http://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/. Duke University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Duke values diversity among its students, staff, and faculty and strongly welcomes applications from women, persons with disabilities, protected veterans, and underrepresented minorities.
Seeding Change Fellowship The National Fellowship Program for Asian American Organizing and Civic Engagement is an intensive 10-12-week, full-time volunteer program that develops the leadership of a new generation of activists and organizers who are deeply invested in building the power of and improving the lives of working-class Asian immigrant communities. Since its launch in 2014, the Seeding Change Fellowship has graduated 93 fellows. Fellows have gone on to become staff, volunteers and activists with their host sites or other organizations in the fellowship network.

The fellowship program will run from June 4 to August 16, 2018, with two start dates for the cohorts. Fellows will be placed with a community-based organization, where they will spend at least 8-10 weeks, working with the organization, immigrant leaders, and the local community. Fellows will have the opportunity to develop their skills from grassroots fundraising, outreach and education, organizing, and language skills. Fellows will also deepen understanding of community organizing and civic engagement. At the beginning of the program, fellows will also participate in a week-long training and orientation in the San Francisco Bay Area. The fellowship program closes with a week-long closing retreat in August.

For more information about the fellowship, visit: http://www.seeding-change.org/programs/fellowship/

We encourage folks who are interested in applying to send any questions (after reviewing the FAQ) to apply@seeding-change.org.

Applications are due online by January 26, 2018 at 11:59 PM PST. Apply here
: http://www.seeding-change.org/programs/fellowship/apply/

MISCELLANIOUS:

"Best Dissertation" Award Nomination THE GRADUATE SCHOOL is pleased to announce the annual competition to recognize the University of Minnesota’s top Ph. D. recipients. “Best Dissertation” awards will be presented in each of four broad disciplinary areas – Arts & Humanities, Biological & Medical Sciences, Physical Sciences & Engineering, and Social & Behavioral Sciences & Education. Graduate programs that offer the Ph. D. may nominate one student who received the Ph. D. between July 1, 2016 and April 12, 2018. The deadline to submit a nomination isThursday, April 12, 2018 at 12:00 PM. For more information, click here.
New Graduate Minors
The School of Public Health announces two new graduate minors:

Health Equity Minor
The minor promotes understanding of the root causes of health inequalities and explores practice and policy solutions to eliminate health inequalities. Understanding structural factors that lead to health inequalities prepares students to develop strategies to promote health equity. Courses approved for the minor are offered in a variety of disciplines throughout the University. Find more information on the Health Equity Minor

Sexual Health Minor
The minor is designed for students who want to specialize in sex, sexuality, reproductive health, and sexual health. By taking public health courses tailored specifically to address sexual health, students are better prepared to enter the professional world with the confidence and skills needed to handle complex questions and issues related to sexual and reproductive health. Find more information on the Sexual Health Minor
Study Abroad with Acara Acara is holding an information session on interdisciplinary India and Nicaragua May Term study abroad courses for undergraduate and graduate students of all majors that introduce innovative approaches to sustainable development. Applications due February 9, 2018.
Reading Partners Volunteer Opportunity ReadingPartners is a literacy nonprofit dedicated to serving elementary schools where students struggle with both poverty and reading. With the help of community volunteers, we provide one-to-one literacy tutoring. By committing to only one hour a week, volunteers help to change the lives of students.

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Questions? Contact Monika Hetzler at monika.hetzler@readingpartners.org, (651) 362-0430