Funding Opportunities for Undergraduate Students

Amount

One $1000 award.

Criteria

For a publishable research report, thesis, dissertation, or published article by a UCLA undergraduate student relating to women, health, or women in health-related sciences. (Examples include medicine, biological and other sciences, public health, sociology of medicine, history of science, medical education, or health policy.) Multi-authored articles will be considered, as long as the applicant has made a significant contribution to the research.

To apply

The application must contain the following materials in hard copy only:

Three copies of each:

• Elizabeth Blackwell, MD, Award Cover Sheet
• Paper or article (publishable research report, thesis, dissertation, or published article)
• Curriculum Vitae
• Transcripts (unofficial copy is acceptable)

One copy of:

• Letters of recommendation from two faculty members. The letters should be sealed in an
  envelope with the recommender’s signature across the back flap.

Deadline

5:30 PM
Thursday, March 4, 2010

Amanda K. Jessen

Amanda K. Jessen graduated with a B.A. in International Development Studies and a minor in Women’s Studies in Spring 2009. She receives the Blackwell Award for her senior seminar paper, “Food Insecurity and Hunger as a Gendered Crisis: A Case Study of Southern Sudan.” Jessen plans to submit this article for publication and will continue to research the many ways in which women are marginalized by conflict. She also plans to join the Peace Corps and teach English in Eastern Europe/Central Asia.

Leslie Marie Schwartz

Leslie Marie Schwartz recently graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in the Department of Mass Communications at UCLA with a double minor in Education Studies and Applied Developmental Psychology. She received this award for her undergraduate departmental honors senior thesis, entitled “Semiotic Intersections Between Gender Violence and the Media: How Violence Against Women is Normalized and Perpetuated Through Syntax and Semantics.” The essay was published in Westwind/Aleph (Spring 2007).

Women and Depression AND
Recruitment Issues in Clinical Trials of Estrogen Replacement Therapy in Menopause