Opening Remarks
Dr. Barbara J. Wilson
President, University of Iowa
A Tribute to the Late Dr. Christine Grant
Presented by Susan Birrell, PhD Professor Emeritus
Margaret P. Benson Memorial Scholarship
Presented by Linda Stewart Kroon, Women’s Resource and Action Center
Recipient
Claire Player from Mount Vernon, Iowa is a junior majoring in Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies and International Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Dawn Thomas from Coralville, Iowa is an M.A.T. candidate in the College of Education, certificate student in Secondary English Education/ESL
Wynonna G. Hubbard Scholarship
Recipient
Selveyah Gamblin is an undergraduate student from Peosta, Iowa, in the College of Science and Liberal Arts
Stephen Lynn Smith Memorial Scholarship for Social Justice
Presented by Teresa Mangum
Oriette D’Angelo from Caracas, Venezuela is a second-year doctoral student in Spanish &
Portuguese with a graduate certificate in Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/Graduate College
Amira Nash from Cedar Rapids, Iowa is a second-year doctoral student in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies: Schools, Culture, & Society, College of Education/Graduate College
Adah Johnson/Otilia Maria Fernandez Women’s Studies Scholarship
Presented by Teresa Mangum
Recipient
Shimin Park from Cheongju, South Korea is a senior majoring in Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies, with a minor in Sociology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Kristin K. Lippke Memorial Scholarship
Presented by Teresa Mangum
Recipients Claire Player
Yasmina Sahir from Dyersville, Iowa is a fourth-year student majoring in Social Justice and
Criminology, with a minor in philosophy and certificate in Human Rights, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Adele Kimm Scholarship
Presented by Teresa Mangum, Professor of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and English College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Recipient
Mengmeng Liu from Jinzhou, China is a second-year doctoral student in Communication Studies as well as a certificate student in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies and
Public Digital Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences/Graduate College
Jane A. Weiss Memorial Dissertation Scholarship
Presented by Teresa Mangum
Recipient
Hannah I. Rochford from Cedar Rapids, Iowa is a fourth-year doctoral student in the Department of Health Management & Policy, College of Public Health/ Graduate College
Jean Y. Jew Women’s Rights Award
Presented by
Amy Lenderik
Recipients
Sage Ohlensehlen, Alexa Puccini, Kelsey Drake, Christina Kaufman
May Brodbeck Distinguished Achievement Award for Faculty
Presented by
Marin Schweizer, PhD
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine
Recipient
Loreen Herwaldt, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology
Susan C. Buckley Distinguished Achievement Award for Staff
Presented by
Daniel Lusche, PhD
Associate Research Scientist
Recipient
Deborah Wessels, PhD
Associate Research Scientist, Department of Biology, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences