These awards recognize student and faculty excellence in creative endeavors, including the arts, and scholarly work pertaining to women and/or gender-related issues that impact women. We invite students and faculty members to submit original work for consideration. Award recipients will be honored at the annual Women of Courage and Vision Awards reception in spring semester, and will receive a $350 award.
Student submissions must be original work either submitted for academic credit during their academic career at MSU, Mankato or research presented in a public forum.
Faculty submissions must be original work in progress or work completed for presentation or publication after March of the previous academic year.
Topics could include, but are by no means limited to the following themes:
Individuals are encouraged to include a reflection (no more than 350 words) with their Project of the Year submissions in which they explain the significance of their project and discuss its relevance to women.
Submissions will be reviewed by a Commission on the Status of Women sub-committee. The outstanding project selected from each category (undergraduate, graduate, faculty) will be honored at the annual Women of Courage and Vision Awards reception in March.
Submission options:
1. E-mail project and reflection to sophie.slater@mnsu.edu
2. In-person submission to the PCSW Graduate Assistant, the Women's Center, CSU 218
**Applicants will be notified via email after all applications have been reviewed. Recipients will be honored at the Women of Courage and Vision Reception, **
Congratulations to the 2011-2012 Project of the Year award winners:
Faculty: Rebecca Bates for "Differences in Self-Efficacy among Women and Minorities in STEM"
Graduate: Sophie Reynolds for "Tea Party Women Speak: Gender-Neutrality and Post-Feminism in the Tea Party Movement"
Undergraduate: Stephanie Gamboni for "The Nature of Things"
Congratulations to the 2010-2011 Project of the Year award winners:
Graduate: Kelli Hanson for "Graduate Student Mothering: Where's the Support?"
Undergraduate: Inge Milius for "Gender Representation on the Cover of ESPN the Magazine, 1998-Present"
Undergraduate: Allison Matthews and Savanna Peterson-Wahl for "Planned Parenthood and Reproductive Rights: Reframing the Organization Through a Reproductive Justice Framework"
Congratulations to the 2009-2010 Project of the Year award winners:
Faculty: Dr. Jocelyn Stitt for Mothers Who Deliver: Feminist Interventions in Public and Interpersonal Discourse
Graduate: Jessica Martinez for "Nationalism, Gender, and Public Grief in the Aftermath of 9/11: Memoirs and Media Representations of 9/11 Widows"
Undergraduate: Emily Dolentz for "Online Anti-Choice Rhetoric: What Does it Say, and Why Does it Matter?"
