Current Events and Announcements:
Marjorie S. Sirridge, M.D. 2010 Alma Dea Morani Award Recipient
The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine is pleased to announce Marjorie S. Sirridge, M.D. as the recipient of the 2010 Alma Dea Morani Award. Throughout her life Dr. Sirridge has shown that women can achieve great things without sacrificing other aspects of their lives.“ I feel that I have been an important role model for women and men because of my openness about my personal life and my commitment to family.”
Foundation Announces 2010 Fellowships
The Foundation, along with their current fellowship partner, The Archives for Women in Medicine at the Center for the History of Medicine, Countway Library, Harvard Medical School, Boston (AWM), is pleased to announce two fellowships which have been granted for research related to the history of women in medicine.
This year's fellowships have been awarded to two outstanding candidates: Sarah Rodriguez, PhD, Senior Research Fellow in Medical Humanities, Northwestern University and Joan Marie Johnson, PhD, Lecturer, Northeastern University.
FWHIM is looking forward to seeing the products of these two research projects, since they are using some of the same archival collections to uncover the stories of two different women pioneers, who contributed to the advancement of reproductive medicine in very different ways.
We Can Do More!
According to our current partners, the Foundation is making an indelible mark on the preservation and promotion of the history of women in medicine. They only wish we could do more. So do we
Your support enables us to continue our
- Research Fellowships which focus on women in medicine and women's health.
- Oral History Projects which transform shoe boxes of cassette tapes into a usable database of sound clips.
- Awards, Honors and Scholarships which recognize and honor stellar women in medicine.
Please support the 2009 Foundation annual appeal with your gift to the future growth and development of these important programs. With you, our vision will continue to become a reality!
Randforce Brings Cutting-Edge Technology to the Oral History Projects
The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine is bringing cutting-edge digital technology and field-leading processing approaches to its Oral History project with the aim to build a collection offering both an oral history archive for serious research on the history of women in medicine, and a resource supporting a wide range of organizational, educational, and public communication uses for the stories and wisdom in collected oral histories. With the assistance of The Randforce Associates, the digitizing, annotating, and summarizing of several of our Alma Dea Morani award recipients has been completed and we are excited to inform you that an interactive audio database is now available in our office. This will make it easy to locate, explore, and analyze the interviews, via annotations and summaries contained in the audio database.
Foundation Advisories Formed – Join Today!
Three advisory groups have been formed to support the priorities of the Foundation:
- Oral History Advisory Group
- Fellowships Advisory Group
- Awards/Scholarships Advisory Group
Each Advisory is chaired by a Foundation Board member. Advisories exist as a way for colleagues and friends of the Foundation to lend their expertise, opinion, interest and support. Much like a listserv, the Advisories will function primarily by email, and will solicit feedback from its members.
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