The document summarizes various events that took place at the University of Michigan involving research, lectures, and initiatives related to gender, race, and sexuality. It notes that equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter delivered a lecture in October. It also mentions that 11 faculty research grants and 24 graduate student research grants were awarded, and several lectures and performances were held covering topics like the southern black gay community, women's sport, and stop-and-frisk policies affecting young black men.

2. Equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter
delivered the Vivian R. Shaw Lecture in
Rackham Auditorium (October).
Photo by Michigan Photography

3. IRWG awarded 11 grants for
faculty research.

4. E. Patrick Johnson performed his one-man show exploring the
southern black gay community, based on his book Sweet Tea.

5. Gender: New Works, New Questions
featured 3 new books by U-M faculty.

6. The SHARP Center offered several events, including
Deborah Slaner Larkin’s “Igniting Change in Women’s
Sport” (February).

7. Dr. Quyen EpsteinNgo joined the
IRWG faculty as
research assistant
professor.

8. Rinku Sen, president and
executive director of the
Applied Research
Center, delivered the
2013 Motorola Lecture
(March).

9. IRWG awarded 24 grants for
grad-student research.
Amanda Healy, Neveser Koker, and Nicole Greer
Golda, presented their work at the Community of
Scholars Symposium in December.

10. The Lesbian, Gay, Queer Research Initiative and
U-M partners presented a concert celebrating
the work of 20th-century gay American
composers.

11. Sociologist Nikki Jones (UC Santa Barbara) spoke to a
standing-room-only audience in Lane Hall about stopand-frisk and young black men (October).