Tucker Center Newsletter - 2011 Spring
Director | Feature | Conference | Film Festival | Staff | Kudos | Did You Know | Lecture
- Letter from the Director
- Feature Article: The Female Athlete and Concussions: The Untold and Unexamined Story
- Save the Date! 2011 Girls & Women in Sport Conference
- Tucker Center Film Festival Sells Out!
- Staff Updates: Julia Dutove
- Kudos & Announcements
- Did You Know? The Sad-but-True Facts about Concussions
- Spring 2011 Distinguished Lecture Panel: The Female Athlete and Concussions
- Keep in Touch with the Tucker Center!
Letter from the Director
Greetings from the Tucker Center! In this newsletter you will learn about all of the exciting and award-winning endeavors we’ve been up to since last Fall. You will also get a sneak preview of what we are planning for in the coming months. At the heart of our mission is engagement in interdisciplinary research. We rely on thoughtful and critical examination to advance our knowledge regarding how sport and physical activity impact the lives of girls and women in a variety of settings. Faculty and graduate students affiliated with the Tucker Center seek answers to the most significant and compelling issues facing the world of women’s sports. Toward that end, our Spring Distinguished Lecture will focus on a critical and under-examined topic—female athletes and concussion. We’ve invited three nationally recognized experts who are at the cutting edge of research in this area. They will address what is known about the impact of concussions on athletic females, as well as highlight the numerous gaps in the research literature ranging from neuroscience to sport psychology. They will also focus their remarks on strategies related to education and prevention. You can read more about the Distinguished Lecture and the panelists here. To get a glimpse of their perspectives in advance of the lecture, read the feature story. In that same story we invited former Gopher hockey player Kelli Blankenship to share what it was like for her to deal with the painful and often scary consequences of sport-related concussions.
The Kudos & Announcements page highlights our numerous and varied research efforts. Read about our scholarly, educational, and outreach accomplishments from publishing in peer-reviewed journals, to winning prestigious national awards and grants, to invited speaking engagements at national and international conferences.
We are always trying to find new and innovative ways to honor the achievements and increase the visibility of female athletes. Just last month we hosted the inaugural Tucker Center Film Festival in which we featured a sneak preview of The Mighty Macs, a soon-to-be released film about the women’s basketball team at Immaculata College in Pennsylvania and their pioneering and inspirational head coach, Cathy Rush. Read more about our Film Festival here. Finally, next November, the Tucker Center is hosting the 2011 Girls & Women in Sport Conference. This one-day event precedes the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS).
Our newsletter is rapidly becoming too small to capture all the work we are doing, so be sure to check out the rest of our Web site or follow us on Facebook or Twitter for the latest and most up-to-date information on all we do to make a difference in the lives of girls and women.
—Mary Jo Kane, Director