Welcome to the Gender Institute
A university-wide research center funded by the Provost, the Gender Institute supports and promotes research and teaching related to gender and sexuality. We offer a wide variety of programs, including lectures, workshops, film screenings, conferences, and art exhibitions, to encourage interdisciplinary scholarship and artistic achievement related to women and gender.
We also offer a range of fellowships, grants, and cosponsorships to undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty to encourage and support research and curriculum development. We encourage analysis of and lively debate about the intricate connections between gender and other social constructions, such as sexuality, race, class, health, age, nationality, religion, and animality. In both our daily practice and our programming, we strive for sustainability in material consumption and community praxis.
THE GENDER INSTITUTE CONGRATULATESDR. GALE BURSTEIN!
Wonderful news! Dr. Gale R. Burstein, a member of the Gender Institute's Executive Committee, has been appointed Erie County Health Commissioner by County Executive Mark C. Polancarz.
Dr. Burstein exemplifies the Gender Institute's ideal of outstanding scholarship combined with deep community engagement. She is an Associate Clinical Professor in UB's Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. She is also an assignee for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Medical Director of the Erie County Department of Health's STD Clinic and a Research Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo's School of Public Health and Health Professions. Dr. Burstein attended SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine in Buffalo, NY; completed a pediatric residency at Case Western Reserve University-Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital in Cleveland, OH; received Adolescent Medicine training at the University of Maryland; completed an STD Prevention fellowship and a Masters in Public Health at John's Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD; and worked as a Medical Officer at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Burstein is currently working on strategies to improve adolescent sexual health care services in primary care. Dr. Burstein, a board certified in Adolescent Medicine physician, is a member of a number of professional organizations and has been published in various scientific journals, including JAMA, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Clinical Infectious Diseases, MMWR, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Sexually Transmitted Infections.
SPEAKEASY
UB UNDERGRADUATES
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: $500 IN PRIZES
Speakeasy: An Undergraduate Journal of Research and Creative Art, sponsored by UB's Gender Institute, is now accepting submissions for its Spring 2012 issue.
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