The Center for Women in Government has announced the recipients of its 1997 Fellows on Women with Public Policy, with five of the eight students placed within state government coming from the University at Albany.
Denise Jeremiah, a master of social work (MSW) candidate, was placed with State Senator Velmanette Montgomery; Catherine Laurence, an MSW candidate, was placed with the Office of the State Comptroller in the fiscal research and policy analysis unit; Eunju Lee, a Ph.D. student in sociology, was placed with Assemblyman Paul Harenburg; Trista Lombardo, an MSW candidate, was placed with the Department of Social Services' Bureau of Policy Planning; and Kristen Schworm, a masters student in sociology, was placed with the Department of Labor in the community services division.
The other three were from University at Buffalo (2) and Syracuse University.
As part of their service required with the center, the eight fellows organized what is aimed at being an annual spring event, The Fellows Forum, this year titled "Changing the System: Women, Poverty & Welfare Reform."
Guest scholars from as far away as Cameroon, Bulgaria and Russia are scheduled to speak at a day-long conference on international gender research Wednesday, June 4, in the Campus Center Assembly Hall. Open to the public, the conference is intended for faculty, students, and those interested in women's, area, and ethnic studies.
"The conference will bring together a group of presenters and scholars ...to talk about the main research priorities both globally and on women in Africa, Russia and Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean," said Professor Iris Berger, one of the conference organizers.
The conference is being organized by the Center for Latino, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies (CELAC) and the Institute for Research on Women (IROW). Early registration is encouraged.
University at Albany faculty and students who pre-register for the June 4 conference will be charged $5. Cost to the general public is $15, and the cost to register the day of the event is $20. Lunch is $10, payable in advance, and is optional. Checks may be made out to University Auxiliary Service and mailed to: Gender Research in Global Perspective, Institute for Research on Women, SS 341, University at Albany, Albany, N.Y., 12222.
A second event, a faculty development institute, will be held June 5-8 in the Campus Center and the Humanities building. Forty participants for the institute will be selected from faculty applicants who are revising existing courses or developing new courses to include significant coverage of women and gender in international contexts. Conference speakers, women's studies and area studies scholars, and curriculum specialists will run workshops and discussions during the institute. Participants may be from any discipline and will receive a stipend to help cover expenses. The deadline for applying to the faculty development institute is April 30. However, faculty members who are still interested in applying should contact Deborah White, research associate at IROW, in Social Science 341, by phone at 442-3311, by fax at 442-4936, or e-mail at [email protected], to find out whether applications are still being taken.
The conference and the faculty development institute are funded by the Ford Foundation and the University, and are organized in conjunction with the three-year project Internationalizing Women's Studies: Cross-Cultural Approaches to Gender Research and Teaching.
In addition to Berger, conference and institute organizers include Edna Acosta-Belen, director of CELAC, Francine Frank, director of the Center for the Arts and Humanities, and Gwen Moore, director of IROW.