The UToledo Department of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies will host a student research showcase on Tuesday, Feb. 8, to highlight two students\u2019 projects to the greater UToledo community.<\/p>\n
Geneva Krieger, a senior studying women\u2019s and gender studies, will present her project titled \u201cHealthcare: A Content Analysis of Women in Benzodiazepine Advertisements.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kylee Gregg, a senior studying social work with a minor in women\u2019s and gender studies, will present her project titled \u201c<\/em>Death Becomes Her: An Exploration into Woman Funeral Directors and Embalmers\u201d<\/p>\n The event is scheduled from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. at University Hall Room 4280 and livestreamed via Webex. Each speaker will present for 20 minutes with a Q&A session to follow.<\/p>\n This is the first in a semester-long series of student research showcases, which have been a tradition for more than a decade.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Women\u2019s Studies Student Research Showcase has been a great opportunity for our students to share some of the outstanding research they are doing in our courses,\u201d said Dr. Sharon Barnes, associate professor and chair of the Department of Women\u2019s and Gender Studies.\u00a0\u201cOver the years, we\u2019ve had fantastic presentations on everything from fast fashion and eating disorders to transnational feminist NGO activism and the impact of UN Women and everything in between.<\/p>\n \u201cThis semester we have another fantastic set of showcase presentations, beginning with WGST senior Geneva Krieger\u2019s look at medical advertising and senior WGST minor Kylee Gregg\u2019s look at female funeral directors and embalmers.\u00a0Both students have future careers related to their topics of choice and their work emerged out of research projects focused on making connections between their academic curriculum and their future careers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The student research showcase is scheduled from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. at University Hall Room 4280 or virtually via Webex.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,60,5,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71294,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71293\/revisions\/71294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}