Faculty and Professional Kudos

IROW would like to congratulate the following colleagues for their recent accomplishments:

• Sandra Fisher (English) for her appointment as Associate Director of the Center for the Arts and Humanities of the University at Albany.

• Francine Frank (Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts) is coordinator of the New York State Planning Committee, American Council on Education National Identification Program/New York State Association of Women in Higher Education.

• June Hahner (History, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and Women's Studies) who has been reappointed to the editorial board of The Americas, named for a three year term on the Committee on Women Historians of the American Historical Association (AHA), and is also serving on the 1991 Program Committee of the Conference on Latin American History of the AHA.

• Sharon Harlan (Center for Women in Government) received two grants: one from NSF, with Trent, described below and a second from the Ford Foundation for a project on "Enhancing Public Sector Employment Opportunities for Inner City Women," whose first phase will include a national policy symposium.

• Gwen Moore (Sociology and Women's Studies) for receiving a NYS/UUP Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action Award providing a research leave during Spring 1991. Gwen also received a Faculty Research Award for her proposal, "Gender and Institutional Power: Variations Across Nations."

• Bonnie Spanier (Women's Studies) is Co-director of a SUNY-wide curriculum diversification project sponsored by the NYS/UUP Labor Management Committee on Affirmative Action, and in that capacity co-organized a summer 1990 institute for curriculum consultants. In addition, Bonnie received the "Making Waves" Award from the Albany Area Chapter of the National Organization for Women, 1990 and received an Experienced Faculty Travel grant for her research on feminism and the sciences from the NYS/UUP PDQWL Committee.

• Katherine Trent (Sociology) and Sharon Harlan (Center for Women in Government) received a two-year grant from the National Science Foundation for a study of "Household Structure and Teenage Mothers."