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Global Conference Focuses on Carework Inequalities

Global Conference Focuses on Carework Inequalities | Featured Story

6/9/2017
As babies and children and when we’re sick, disabled or dying, we all need care – and most of that care is provided by women working for low or no wages. It’s time to change that, according to speakers at the Global Carework Summit.
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Faculty Symposium Celebrates Excellence in Teaching, Research

Faculty Symposium Celebrates Excellence in Teaching, Research | Featured Story

3/10/2017
More than 40 faculty members, including 2017 Manning Prize recipient Donald Leitch, were recognized for teaching excellence at the Faculty Symposium on Teaching, Learning, Research & Creative Works.
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Girls Knit Their Way to a Math Career

Girls Knit Their Way to a Math Career | In The News

3/8/2017
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University Launches Campaign to Support Women Faculty in STEM

University Launches Campaign to Support Women Faculty in STEM | Featured Story

2/7/2017
The university has launched Making WAVES, a campuswide effort to address barriers to professional advancement for women and minority faculty in STEM fields. A five-year, $3.5 million National Science Foundation grant is supporting the research initiative.
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Emerging Scholars Program Teaches Research Skills

Emerging Scholars Program Teaches Research Skills | Featured Story

2/4/2017
Students in the Emerging Scholars program work with professors on research projects, gaining valuable experience and earning money.
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Psychology Prof Awarded 'New Connections' Grant

Psychology Prof Awarded 'New Connections' Grant | Featured Story

10/7/2016
Christopher Allen, an assistant professor of psychology, has been awarded a prestigious grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to further his research on sexual violence and prevention.
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$3.5 Million NSF Grant Will Fund Program to Close Gender Gap for STEM Faculty

$3.5 Million NSF Grant Will Fund Program to Close Gender Gap for STEM Faculty | Newsletter

9/20/2016
A team of researchers from UMass Lowell recently received a $3.5 million NSF grant to develop a program to combat "microaggressions" and other barriers that face women faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields across higher education.
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Textiles Help Teach STEM Concepts

Textiles Help Teach STEM Concepts | Featured Story

9/2/2016
A group of psychology, math, engineering and education professors and students, working with fiber artists, are using textiles to teach STEM concepts with the hope of reducing math anxiety in girls and young women and improving learning for all.
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Psychology Professor Studies Conflict, Works for Peace

Psychology Professor Studies Conflict, Works for Peace | Featured Story

7/22/2016
Asst. Prof. Urmitapa Dutta researches ethnic and gender violence in the Garo Hills of Northeast India – and involves students in everyday peace-building.
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Psychology Professor on Harassment Task Force

Psychology Professor on Harassment Task Force | Featured Story

6/28/2016
EEOC Commissioner Chai Feldblum spoke at the Women’s Leadership Conference about a new task force report on workplace harassment. Psychology Prof. Meg Bond, director of the Center for Women and Work, served on the task force and recommended preventive strategies.
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Attendees Lean in at First Women’s Leadership Conference

Attendees Lean in at First Women’s Leadership Conference | Featured Story

6/28/2016
The first annual Women’s Leadership Conference was a resounding success, with a sellout crowd, high-powered speakers, practical advice – and lots of laughter.
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2016’s Best and Worst States for Working Dads

2016’s Best and Worst States for Working Dads | In The News

6/14/2016
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Beth K. Humberd, assistant professor of management and an associated in the Center for Women & Work, talks about the biggest issues facing working dads today.
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Waging The Battle For Women’s Worth

Mind The Pay Gap: Waging The Battle For Women’s Worth | In The News

4/12/2016
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Article co-authored by Monica Galizzi and her UMass colleagues Kim Merriman, an associate professor of management who has expertise in compensation; and Beth Humberd, an assistant professor of management who has a specialty in gender in the workplace. All are faculty associates at the Center for Women & Work, a group dedicated to advancing knowledge about the relationship between gender and work through research.
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5 Steps Women Can Take to Get Credit for Work

5 Practical Steps Women Can Take to Get Credit for Their Work | In The News

3/15/2016
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Studies conducted with psychology professor Michelle C. Haynes of UMass Lowell show women who worked collaboratively with men on designing multiyear investment portfolios were consistently seen as less competent than their male peers.
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Professor Recognized for Book on Media Freedom

Professor Recognized for Book on Media Freedom | Featured Story

3/2/2016
An award-winning book by assistant professor of political science Jenifer Whitten-Woodring is aiding research on the intersection between media freedom and political fragmentation and diversification.
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Leaders Encourage Women to ‘Know Your Voice’

Leaders Encourage Women to ‘Know Your Voice’ | Featured Story

11/24/2014
Alumna Lorna Boucher and a panel of university leaders share their experiences at the second annual “Know Your Voice, Use Your Voice” Women’s Leadership Conference at University Crossing.
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Nurses Must Have A Seat At Ebola Table

As U.S. Hospitals Prepare Ebola Response, Nurses Must Have A Seat At The Table | Department News

10/30/2014
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If there is a silver lining in the current Ebola crisis, it’s that workplace safety for health care workers is finally getting public attention .
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Psychology Major Gets Real Life Experience Through Research

Psychology Major Gets Real Life Experience Through Research | Featured Story

8/19/2014
UMass Lowell offers undergraduates hands-on research opportunities. Watch one student's research experience.
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Women Often Underestimate Work Contributions

Women Often Underestimate Work Contributions | Featured Story

7/12/2013
Psychology professor Michelle Haynes’ research on women’s estimation of group work contributions has hit a chord with business and equality readers.
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Women's Forum Considers Economic Justice

Women's Forum Considers Economic Justice | Featured Story

4/9/2013
Often ignored by history, women have been leaders in the struggle for economic and social justice. Members of the Women's Caucus of Occupy Boston added their voices to a recent forum on women and economic justice.
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UMass Lowell, UMass Worcester Study Gender Biases in Workplace

UMass Lowell, UMass Worcester Study Gender Biases in Workplace | Featured Story

3/28/2013
Thanks to a three-year $750,000 grant from the ADVANCE initiative of the National Science Foundation, researchers from UMass Lowell and UMass Medical School are developing an index to measure subtle gender biases within the academic setting.
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Beneath the Veil – an Islamic Feminist?

Beneath the Veil – an Islamic Feminist? | Featured Story

3/13/2013
We think we know what’s what. A woman wearing a head covering means she’s repressed, right? Islam and Feminism speaker dispels myths.
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Steampunk Art, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Teen Sexting

Steampunk Art, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and Teen Sexting | Featured Story

8/24/2012
Three new social science research initiatives will provide insights on youth issues, among topics.
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Forum Questions the ‘F’ Word: Feminism

Forum Questions the ‘F’ Word: Feminism | Featured Story

5/4/2012
Smart, accomplished women say they are not feminists. What’s going on? Is feminism now a dirty word?
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Voices Raised in Celebration and Service

Voices Raised in Celebration and Service | Featured Story

3/6/2012
Lowell Women’s Week, which was built from the successful International Women’s Day event begun on campus in the early 90’s, is an annual celebration of the women and girls of Lowell.
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Engineering Student Named Future Leader

Engineering Student Named Future Leader | Featured Story

7/17/2011
Allison Fidler, a junior in the Plastics Engineering Department, is among 43 students nationwide who have been named by the Society of Women Engineers as this year’s Future Leaders.
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Creative Hot Spot

Creative Hot Spot | Featured Story

6/24/2011
UMass Lowell strengthened its reputation as a hot-spot for creative economy research in the state when all of its proposals seeking funding from the UMass President's Creative Economy Initiative were approved this spring.
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Forum Explores Women’s Creativity

Forum Explores Women’s Creativity | Featured Story

4/15/2011
The Center foe Women and Work's annual forum discussed why “women’s work” conjures up many images: Rosie the Riveter, soccer moms, League of Women Voters.
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Standout Student Supported

Standout Student Supported | Featured Story

4/8/2011
Student Jennifer Castaño received a grant from AAUW and a matching grant from the Honors Program to attend an AAUW conference in Maryland this summer.

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