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In Memoriam: Sally Miller Gearhart (1931–2021) In Memoriam: Sally Miller Gearhart (1931–2021) Lesbian activist Sally Miller Gearhart, who helped launch the field of Women’s Studies and with Harvey Milk was key to the defeat of anti-gay Proposition 6 that would have banned LGBT teachers from public schools, died on June 14 in Ukiah at the age of 90. One of the most prominent and influential out lesbians in Bay Area history, Gearhart was the first openly lesbian member of the boards of the San Francisco Family Service Agency and the San Francisco Mental Health Association. Th...

UW looks to eliminate 75 staff, close departments under plan to slash $13M/yr in expenses By Brendan LaChance on July 13, 2021 University of Wyoming UW College of Business Building / COE Library (Brendan LaChance, Oil City) CASPER, Wyo. — The University of Wyoming Board of Trustees will be considering a proposal that aims to slash over $13 million in annual expenditures, UW announced Tuesday. That could mean eliminating up to 75 faculty and other staff positions, including up to ten department heads. UW President Ed Seidel’s administration is also proposing eliminating and restructuring...

Enfermedades de las mascotas: ¿cuáles pueden afectar a sus dueños? Expertos señalan la importancia del cuidado de la salud de las mascotas para evitar diferentes tipos de enfermedades que, posteriormente, pueden contagiar a las personas. Jue, 15 / Jul / 2021 7:12 pm SÍGUENOS EN: Enfermedades que pueden contagiar las mascotas a sus dueños. Foto: Shutterstock Expertos señalan la importancia del cuidado de la salud de las mascotas para evitar diferentes tipos de enfermedades que, posteriormente, pueden contagiar a las personas. Ahora que las personas pasan más tiempo con sus animales en ...

Published June 9, 2021 at 6:07 PM CDT Listen • 18:03 Voces Oral History Center at the The University of Texas at Austin US Latino/a Studies at Iowa State University, in collaboration with the Parks Library and the Voces Oral History Project at the University of Texas at Austin, will collect interviews with members of the Latino community and their stories from the COVID-19 pandemic. An oral history partnership has an Iowa State student collecting the stories of Latino/a Iowa and their experience of the pandemic. Latino Iowans made up a disproportionate number o...

June 9, 2021 The Society for the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences has added to its Humanities Grants offerings in 2021, awarding the new Humanities Impact Grants. Two public-facing projects by Cornell faculty have received $10,000 each to “engage in broader public conversations with social impact in mind,” funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research and Innovation. Xak Bjerken “These new projects are meant to be ‘unconventional’ and have a social impact outcome,” said Emmanuel Giannelis, vice president for research and innovation. “They are supposed to ...