My research project is investigating the effects of mom’s having had bariatric surgery (specifically, vertical sleeve gastrectomy, or VSG) on their offspring. Clinical and rat trials have shown that the offspring of moms who’ve had VSG tend to have low birth weights (“intrauterine growth restriction”) and have metabolic problems later in life. My project has…
Category: #3 Impact of your Research
Describe your research project in more detail including the overall goals and the potential impact. Please discuss the impact of your research on individuals as well as groups of people. Name social identity groups (or populations) you think your research project will impact the most, and what social identity groups you think are impacted the least. Please explain why these groups will be impacted. Also, please tell us a bit about how research ethics play a role in your research (if you’re struggling, think back to our 6/20/18 seminar).
The Mental Health of Female Surgeons
This summer, I’ll be working with Ph.D. candidate Emily Vargas in the Psychology department to interview female surgeons about their perceptions of control and social functioning, along with their overall psychological health. Surgery overall is considered to be a highly masculine field, but with both feminine and masculine subspecialties within. While my own surgical knowledge…
Take a chance, make a change
While I try to make most of my blog posts positive and light-hearted, my research topic is focused on the hardships faced by gay men thus this post is taking a more serious form. [su_divider top=”no” style=”dashed” divider_color=”#fe0ddf” size=”6″ margin=”5″] My project focuses on the sexual misconduct experiences of gay men on college campus. This summer…
History of Breastfeeding in Brazil– Research Impact
I am working with Professor Victoria Langland, who holds a joint appointment in the History and Romance Languages and Literatures departments, on her project about the history of breastfeeding in Brazil. This project is a historical study of the development of scientific and social understandings of breastfeeding, human milk banking, and motherhood throughout the 20th…
Chicana Por Mi Raza
[su_heading size=”19″ margin=”30″]The research project I am working on with Dr. Cotera is called Chicana Por Mi Raza. The project focuses on recovering and documenting the activism work of Chicana Feminists during the 60’s and 70’s through a digital archive.[/su_heading] The impact of my research challenges how the Chicano Movement and Second Wave Feminists have…
CHICANA POR MI RAZA
Chicana is a digital archive focused on preserving the Chicana and Latina voices during the civil rights movement as well as the feminist movement. This is crucial because the general history of the movements omits the roles that women of color played. The Civil Rights era is predominantly male and the feminist movement is predominantly white.…