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In this month's Stay Curious, Dr. Laura Regassa, Associate Provost for Research takes over as we celebrate Women's History Month.
Universities play a pivotal role in addressing the societal challenges that we face today and in defining the questions that we will research tomorrow. Creative solutions and keen insights often emerge from diverse representation among dedicated researchers - those who are ground breakers, pioneers, and novel thinkers across and within disciplines. As we celebrate Women’s History Month, we at Georgia Southern University celebrate the many contributions that our faculty have made to their fields.
In FY2022, women accounted for about 50% of university funding proposals submitted to outside sponsors, they secured over $9M in awards, and they published and presented their work via wide-ranging national and international venues. While we cannot highlight every excellent researcher on campus, we wanted to share a few stories with you to demonstrate the breadth of work that faculty pursue and the lasting impacts they have on our knowledge as a society.
For many of us, there were few ready research role models when we started our careers and important research contributions by women sometimes were not widely known until decades after their work (e.g. Rosalind Franklin, Katherine Johnson). We are fortunate to have many wonderful women role models across our campuses. We thank them for their contributions, their leadership, and their willingness to share.
In this issue, we included research from the fields of biology, economics, music, political science, engineering, and public health. Together, Georgia Southern University faculty are helping to solve today’s problems and to creatively define tomorrow’s questions.
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