CSWGS is pleased to present the next of the Gray/Wawro Lectures in Gender, Health and Well-being at 6 PM, February 9, in collaboration with the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy.

While the lecture is free and open to the public, seating is limited.  Due to the great interest in this lecture, we ask that you RSVP to reserve your seats.

CSWGS is pleased to collaborate with Race Scholars at Rice to co-sponsor UCLA Sociologist Mignon Moore's 6pm lecture this February 1 on gay identities, relationships and motherhood among black women in the United States.

When you become a Partner of the Center, you provide critical support for the work we do, from undergraduate research to faculty seminars.

The Center especially appreciates those Partners who have also become members of its Advisory Board:

Chair: Melanie Gray

Anne Chao, '09 Ph.D. (M.A. '05)
Rev. Marcus Cosby, Ph.D.
Karen Ostrum George, '77
Pauline E. Higgins

Jesse H. Jones II
Judge Steven E. Kirkland, '82

Kafah Bachari Manna

Sherry M. Merfish
Collyn A. Peddie, '79
Cathryn Rodd Selman, '78
Karen Twitchell
Crystal Washington

On Thursday, November 3, at 6 PM, the Center hosted the second of this year's Gray/Wawro Lectures in Gender, Health and Well-being. 

Acclaimed photographer Scott Pasfield toured all 50 states to produce this snapshot of gay men in the United States today.

The Center's Program in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities, in conjunction with the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy, was pleased to present the economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen at 6 pm on October 21, 2011.

On Thursday, September 22, the Center hosted the first of this year's Gray/Wawro Lectures in Gender, Health and Well-being in the Kelly International Conference Facility in James A. Baker III Hall.

On Friday, August 26th, CSWGS held a reception for the students who completed their summer internships for the minor in Poverty, Justice, and Human Capabilities in the Rice University Humanities Building Lobby and Courtyard.

Darren Arquero, a major in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, won the 2011 David Brooks Award for Social Mobility, also known as the Rice Commencement Award. This is the third year in a row a major in SWGS has won this award. 

Graduate students receiving certificates in the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality gathered together this past March to share their research in the field.  The Symposium was the largest the Center has seen, and speaks volumes of the important work the Center's graduate students are conducting in their fields and in the community.