Women's Studies News
16 May 2021Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden Named HWS Commencement Speaker and Blackwell Recipient
Carla Hayden, the 14th Librarian of Congress and the first woman and the first African American to hold the position, will be the 2021 Commencement speaker, and receive an honorary degree and the Elizabeth Blackwell Award.
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16 March 2021Women's Health and Rights: Maguire '69 Recalls Career in New Memoir
Elizabeth Liz Shires Maguire '69 looks back on a four-decade career in public health and imparts advice on leadership and mentorship in her new memoir. Sometimes opportunity knocks.
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25 January 2021Poulin '15 Produces Stories of Women Olympians and Paralympians
Stories of women Olympians and Paralympians are the focus of the Flame Bearers podcast, produced by Michelle Poulin '15.
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26 August 2020Alumnae Launch Women in the Real
Hannah Bini ’20, Chloe Emler ’20 and Addison Gilbard ’20 want to change the way women are portrayed in the media — and they want women to contribute to how that change happens.
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25 June 2020Honors Students Demonstrate Academic Rigor
Twenty-eight students in the Classes of 2020 have graduated with Honors, demonstrating academic rigor and excellence in written and oral communication.
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4 June 2020Bayer to Moderate Women in Medicine Discussion
Professor of Women’s Studies Betty Bayer, the immediate past president of the National Women’s Hall of Fame, will lead the Hall’s inaugural book club discussion of The Power of Rare by Victoria Jackson.
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29 April 2020Fowle '19 Accepted to Georgetown University Grad School
Beginning in the fall, Adelaide Fowle 19 will continue her post-graduate career in the Health and the Public Interest Program at Georgetown University.
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