Iowa State University
INDEX
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
LAS Calendar | E-Mail/Phones |

Department of State awards grant to Women's Studies Program

The Women's Studies Program at Iowa State University has received a three-year, $296,687 grant from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Educational Partnerships Program.

The grant is being used to develop a partnership with the Center for Gender Studies at Kharkiv National University in Ukraine. Faculty members from Kharkiv National University are currently on the Iowa State campus to help facilitate that partnership.

"The project addresses the need in Ukraine, and more broadly in the post-socialist countries, for development and dissemination of knowledge about the relationship of gender to the emerging democracies and market economies," said Jill Bystydzienski, director Women's Studies at Iowa State.

The Kharkiv Center for Gender Studies is developing an effective curriculum and exposing its faculty to more active teaching methods.

"The Women's Studies Program is assisting the Kharkiv Center for Gender Studies in the Ukraine in these endeavors as w have a well developed academic program and faculty who are experts in curricular development and innovative teaching," Bystydzienski said.

The Kharkiv Center is helping the Iowa State program with internationalization by working with women's studies faculty on campus to infuse content on the post-socialist countries into Iowa State courses.

The Iowa State faculty will also teach in the Center's Summer Institute in Foros, Crimea and engage in collaborative research projects with their counterparts in Ukraine.

Air Force Aerospace Studies - Anthropology - Biochemistry, Biophysics & Molecular Biology - Chemistry - Computer Science
Ecology, Evolution & Organismal Biology - Economics - English - Genetics, Development & Cell Biology - Geological & Atmospheric Sciences
Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication - History - Mathematics - Military Science - Music - Naval Science
Philosophy & Religious Studies - Physics and Astronomy - Political Science - Psychology - Sociology - Statistics - World Languages & Cultures
African and African American Studies - American Indian Studies - Biological/Premedical Illustration - Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Classical Studies - Communication Studies - Criminal Justice Studies - Environmental Science - Environmental Studies - Interdisciplinary Studies
International Studies - Liberal Studies - Linguistics - Software Engineering - Speech Communication - U.S. Latino/a Studies - Women's Studies