Women’s and Gender Studies student grant accepting nominations until Jan. 22

Women’s and Gender Studies student grant accepting nominations until Jan. 22

The Women’s and Gender Studies Program is pleased to announce the 2023-24 Jane Schaberg Student Grant with nominations being accepted until Jan. 22, 2024. Grants support community and academic projects and activities related to women’s and gender issues.

Who can apply? Current undergraduate, graduate, and professional students as well as university-recognized student organizations are welcome to apply using an online application.

What types of projects get funded? Past grants have been awarded in support of a wide range of activities, community projects, as well as academic projects, such as:

  • Bringing an international poet to Detroit Mercy to recite her work and speak on trauma, journey and the modern stories of Muslim women.
  • The publication and performance of a student chapbook of written and visual art that engaged issues of gender.
  • A Ph.D. capstone project on vicarious trauma and its effects on sexual assault nurse examiners.
  • Travel to an academic conference to present research on mental health interventions for Black women.
  • The Chemistry Club’s Women in Science Symposium.

Please direct any questions to Amanda Hiber (hiberja@udmercy.edu) or Megan Novell (novellme@udmercy.edu), co-directors of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.

More details and FAQs on the grants.

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