Photo: Women's Board program at Smart Museum
Women's Board program at Smart
Museum

2005-2006 Summaries of Proposals for Women’s Board Funding

Student Groups

- The University of Chicago Rowing Club. Three new rowing boats will be purchased providing rowers greater flexibility in practice, improve the technical and competitive aspect of practices, and provide more racing opportunities. Having a core of accomplished coaches who have made long-term commitments to the team, the Club is determined to continue to develop a rowing program of the same caliber as the University’s academic status.

- Chicago Maroon Magazine The Chicago Maroon, the independent student newspaper of the University of Chicago since 1892, will receive funding enabling the newspaper to launch Chicago Maroon Magazine. The Magazine, to be published as a quarterly insert in the newspaper, will be an outlet for writing and artwork that would not normally appear in regular issues of the Maroon. The topics covered will include fashion, culture, and in-depth feature articles.

Faculty and Student Research

- Department of Anthropology - Compassion and Kingship: The Hospitals of Jayavarman VII at Angkor, Cambodia
Graduate student researchers will undertake an intensive investigation of a hospital in Angkor Thom built in A.D.1181... The project will provide a unique cultural, historical and political context in which to explore issues of traditional medicine, cultural concepts of wellbeing, the religious foundations of healing and the politics of compassion.

- Department of Organismal Biology & Anatomy RE: New sauropod dinosaur from Africa In 2000 a most unusual long-necked dinosaur was discovered in the Sahara. This summer a student team will be sent to open field jackets, clean bones, refine a reconstruction plan, model missing bones, mold and cast bones, and assemble a new species and this 40-foot long dinosaur will again stand on its feet, after some 110 million years.

- The University of Chicago Law School Students will work to document and publicize the experience of foster care wards who become involved in the delinquency system. The primary aim of the project is to inspire policy reforms, but it will also provide rewarding research for a number of students, and afford valuable recognition to adolescents caught between the foster care and juvenile justice systems.

Capital Projects (non-student)

- The English Language Institute The English Language Institute classroom/ language laboratory will be renovated with state of the art technology at International House. These improvements will serve foreign students endeavoring to advance their ability to communicate with English-language speakers around the world and be successful in their academic, professional and personal goals.

- Dep’t of Slavic Languages & Literature Digitizing & Distributing Seminal Slavic Works With the digitization of important, hard-to-find works in Slavic linguistics for scholars and students the works will be made publicly available in a format that allows people to search and bookmark as well as take and distribute notes on the material. This project will immeasurably facilitate scholars’ work and students’ learning, and will provide a new means of collaboration between colleagues.

- The Chicago Jazz Archive Tape Preservation Project One hundred deteriorating audio tapes from the Library’s Chicago Jazz Archive will be digitally preserved. These reel-to-reel tapes, dating from the 1940s through 1970s, contain unissued live jazz performances at the University and in Chicago clubs, musician interviews, and oral histories from key figures in the history of jazz in Chicago. This material will support ongoing interdisciplinary research on the Chicago Renaissance and Chicago South Side history...

- The Smart Museum of Art Contemporary Chinese Photography Purchase of Art Storage Racks The Smart Museum will purchase and install 3 art storage racks which will provide access to 15 large-scale works of contemporary Chinese photography recently acquired by the museum. The new acquisitions make the museum’s collection of contemporary Chinese art one of the most significant in the country. Grant funds will help protect these works and ensure that they are seen, studied, and enjoyed by faculty and students as well as a range of public audiences.

Student Internships

- Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (CSRPC) Four undergraduate fellows will be selected to spend 10 weeks from June to August working with faculty and local community groups, organizations and public agencies to research and publish a report on an issue of importance to the Chicago area dealing with race and ethnicity. The program will is an important component of the Center’s commitment to produce research that is accessible, important and a resource to marginal communities in Chicago.

- Court Theatre Internships Court Theatre, one of the University’s key cultural institutions, is again able to offer the opportunity to nurture tomorrow’s theatre artists by offering pre-professional, paid internships to students interested in pursuing a theatre career. .

- Human Rights Internships Six students will be sent on internships in Human Rights organizations this summer.

- Jeff Metcalf Research Internships The funding will support five Metcalf Fellows interning at Lincoln Park Zoo, Field Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust and The History Makers enabling them to take advantage of traditionally unpaid internships in the non-profit sector.

Community Outreach

- U of Chicago Obstetrics & Gynecology Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Program, Pilot Project: Pharmacokinetics of Low Molecular Weight & Unfractionated Heparin in Pregnancy Women with a certain, serious syndrome are at a heightened risk of developing devastating outcomes, i.e. recurrent miscarriage, fetal demise. The drug Heparin has been shown to improve pregnancy outcome and reduce serious complications in women but the ideal dosing in pregnancy is not known. This project will determine the ideal dosing. Once completed, a multicentered randomized trial will be designed to determine which treatment is more effective. The Women’s Board will fund the expenses of subjects recruited for the study.

- HPREP Health Professions Recruitment and Exposure Program The HPREP program introduces thirty-five high school students from minority backgrounds to the health professions so that they might prepare for and complete a pre-medical education at the college level. Through three Saturday workshops at the University’s Pritzker School of Medicine, the students explore different health care professions, medical ethics, anatomy, personal statements, and presentation skills.

- Biological Sciences Division Teach Research Project The TEACH (Training Early Achievers for Careers in Health) Research has received funding for its newly formed program designed to inspire and prepare Chicago Public School students to become physician-scientists. A diverse healthcare workforce is integral to expanding healthcare access for the underserved and fostering research to address the health of these populations.

Faculty and Student Research

- The Corona Image Project at the Oriental Institute The OI will be able to purchase and process 300 CORONA images (which provide extremely detailed information on how the landscape appeared decades ago) while they are still available. This purchase will provide the Institute with full coverage of Middle Eastern images and will set the Oriental Institute apart as the leading source of usable CORONA imagery for the Middle East.

Student Groups

- University Community Service Center Wonder Women: Transitions to Womanhood. program will provide young women a female-focused small group approach to women’s health care, including preventative care and sex-education while addressing female body image and social norms and pressures. The targeted group will be 7th and 8th grade girls attending area schools and/or working with recognized student groups from the University of Chicago.

Prior Years

Project Funding for Prior Years:
2007-2008 | 2006-2007 | 2005-2006 | 2004-2005.