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Women in History Spotlight: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow earned her Master’s in Physics in 1942 and Ph.D. in 1945 from UIUC. As one of the few women in science at the time, she was the only female teaching assistant among 400 faculty members in 1941. In 1977, she co-won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology for developing radioimmunoassay, becoming the first American-born woman and the second woman overall to win a Nobel Prize in Medicine.
- Prof. Min Zhan of the School of Social Work has been appointed Director of WGGP beginning August 16. Min brings a long history of collaboration with WGGP and its Gender Relations in International Development interdisciplinary graduate minor, which is housed in the School of Social Work, where... Read full story Dr. Min Zhan named as WGGP Director
Alumni Spotlight: Beatriz Padilla
Beatriz Padilla University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alumnna GRID Minor, 2001 PhD in Sociology, 2001 Current Position My current position is Principal Investigator (which is at the same level that Associate Professor) at the Instituto Universitario de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) or in English, University Institute of Lisbon Please give us an update on your life since graduating from Illinois. After graduation, I worked for a year for the UIUC Extension Services (mainly in health and migration issues) and in 2002 I moved to Portugal. In...