Student Spotlight

Announcing the 2023-2024 Linda Gaylon Scholarship Recipients!
The Women’s and Gender Studies Program is excited to announce our 2023-2023 Scholarship awardee’s! This year we were able to support four undergraduate awards for… Read More

May 8, 2023
WGS 2022-2023 Scholarship Recipients Named
The Women’s and Gender Studies Scholarship Committee has selected the recipients of the 2022-2023 Linda Galyon Undergraduate Scholarship and the Graduate Student Scholarship in honor of… Read More

April 22, 2022
Student Spotlight: Jarrel Johnson, WGS Grad Minor
Jarrel Johnson (he/him/his) will graduate this summer with a PhD in Education and a graduate minor in Women’s and Gender Studies. “I decided to pursue… Read More

May 10, 2021
Student Spotlight: Lindsey Huber, WGS Grad Minor
Lindsey Huber (she/her/hers) will graduate this spring with a Master’s in Rhetoric, Composition, and Professional Communication. Additionally, Lindsey has earned a Women’s and Gender Studies… Read More

April 23, 2021
2021-2022 WGS Scholarship Recipients Named
The Women’s and Gender Studies Scholarship Committee has selected the recipients of the 2021-2022 Linda Galyon Undergraduate Scholarship and the Graduate Student Scholarship in honor… Read More

March 17, 2021
WGS Internship Series: Self-Help International
by Jo Allen Somerle Rhiner (she/they), a junior in sociology and women and gender studies, spent last summer and fall of 2020 interning remotely with… Read More

March 10, 2021
Student Spotlight: Garbanzo Beans’ (They/Them) Unique Journey to WGS and Tri-Iota
by Ashley Rolf Tri-Iota, the Iowa State Women’s and Gender Studies honor society, has appointed sophomore WGS and linguistics major Garbanzo Beans (they/them/theirs)… Read More

October 16, 2020
Student Spotlight: Sarah Poyer
Meet WGS major and biology minor Sarah Poyer! Sarah is a sophomore and hopes to go to medical school in hopes of becoming an OBGYN. Read More

October 14, 2020
Jarrel Johnson (WGS Minor) named 2020 NAEd/Spencer Dissertation Fellow for education inclusion research

June 19, 2020
Congratulations to Megan Lutz, WGS minor
By Trinity Jones Megan Lutz (she/her/hers) is a graduating senior who will receive her degree in English and Public Relations with a minor… Read More

May 20, 2020