The Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (IRWGS) has the following opportunity which may be of interest to undergraduate students.
IRWGS Undergraduate Research Prizes (March 22 Deadline): IRWGS honors undergraduates with three annual prizes recognizing outstanding intellectual achievement:
- The Queer Studies award, inaugurated in 1994, honors an undergraduate for excellence in research and writing in Queer Studies.
- The Women’s and Gender Studies award, inaugurated in 2007, honors an undergraduate for excellence in research and writing in the fields of women and gender studies.
- The Feminist to the Core Undergraduate Essay Prize, inaugurated in 2017, is awarded annually to the undergraduate who is judged by the IRWGS prize committee to have written the best essay on any topic in Feminist or Queer Studies in one of the following Core courses:
- Literature Humanities
- Contemporary Civilization
- Art Humanities
- Music Humanities
For more information, please see the flyer below.