Eight faculty tapped for Litt Fund grants

Eight faculty members have been awarded grants from the Iris F. Litt, M.D., Fund to pursue research on women and gender during the 2004-05 academic year. The fund, administered by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG), was established in 1997. Litt, the Marron and Mary Elizabeth Kendrick Professor in Pediatrics, is director of the Division of Adolescent Medicine in the School of Medicine and former director of IRWG. Award recipients and their research titles include:

• Brigid Barron, assistant professor of education; "Gender Equity and the Development of Technological Fluency: Toward Understanding the Role of Experience in the Appropriation and Productive Use of Computing Tools."
• Bertha Chen, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology; "Long-Term Outcomes of Surgical Vesicovaginal Fistula Repairs in Eritrean Women."
• Anne Dubin, associate professor of pediatrics (pediatric cardiology); "Sex Differences in Cardiovascular Function in Eating-Disordered Adolescents."
• Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences; "Comparison of Cortisol Levels in Chinese Women Caregivers and Non-Caregivers: An Exploratory Study of the Physiological Response to a Chronic Stressor."
• Amy Ladd, professor of orthopedic surgery and of medicine; "Distal Radius Fracture Malunion and De Quervain's Tenosynovitis."
• Susan Olzak, professor of sociology; "Founding and Persistence of Women's Studies Programs in U.S. Higher Education."
• Michele Tertilt, assistant professor of economics; "EnGendering Development -- An Economic Analysis."
• Mylene Yao, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology; "Development of a High Throughput Experimental System for the Study of Meiosis in the Mammalian Oocyte."