1:43 p.m., March 17, 2010----The University of Delaware hosted the Geis Student Research on Women Conference on Saturday, March 13.

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The Geis Conference, sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Office of Equity and Inclusion, is a program designed to recognize student excellence in research. The conference is open to female and male students, at either the undergraduate or the graduate level, from the member institutions of the Greater Philadelphia Women's Studies Consortium.

This year, papers were submitted by undergraduate and graduate students from the University of Delaware, Haverford College, St. Joseph's University, Ursinus College, West Chester University and Bryn Mawr College.

This year's lunch panel discussion was entitled “Feminist Activism in the Age of Obama.” The panel participants all work for organizations devoted to feminist issues, and the main topics of conversation were about working for a non-profit during the current economic and political climate, the feminist movement and changes over time, and the importance of the feminist perspective in community building.

Participants included Denise Brown of the Leeway Foundation; Gloria Casarez, LGBT liaison for Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter; Nora Lichtash of the Women's Community Revitalization Project; Carol Post of the Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence; and the moderator, Rose Corrigan, director of Women's Studies at Drexel University.

All papers selected for the conference were based on excellence and relevance of the research to women and/or gender issues, and were eligible to win conference awards.

Details about the Geis Student Research on Women Conference can be found at this Web page.

This year's winners were:

Undergraduate

1st place -- Chelsea Dilatush (St. Joseph's University), Eyes Wide Open: Gender Similarities and Differences in Sexual Objectivity and Sexual Objectification in Today's Hook-up Culture.

2nd place (tied) -- Emily Bock (Haverford College), 'Root Hog, or Die:' Surviving as Working-Class in Academia, and Gretchen Spencer (University of Delaware), Social Construction of Gender in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Graduate

1st place -- Heidi A. Pierce (University of Delaware), Defiant Princesses: Imagining Reform in Mary De Morgan's Fairy Tales.

2nd place -- Jane Tippet (University of Delaware), Sculpting Bernhardt.