On Tuesday, March 29, you are invited to hear Becky Sykes, President, Dallas Women’s Foundation, present “Gendering the Texas Budget: State Priorities as if Women and Children Mattered” from 12 noon to 1 p.m. in the McDermott Lecture Hall (Room D1.602). Everyone is welcome to attend, and pre-registration is not necessary. A light lunch will be served.
This forum is co-sponsored by the Library, Women in Science and Medicine Advisory Committee, University of Texas School of Public Health/Dallas Regional Campus, UT Southwestern Department of Psychiatry, and other campus organizations. The host for the event will be Patrice Vaeth, Dr.P.H., professor of health promotion and behavioral science, UT School of Public Health.
Sykes and her colleagues at the Foundation, along with researchers from the Center for Public Policy Priorities, have prepared a gender responsive analysis of the current year Texas budget. This analysis examines the state’s $182.5 billion budget through a gender lens, focusing on the impact of fiscal policy on the health, safety, education, and economic security of women and girls in Texas.
With the legislature contemplating significant cutbacks in health and human services funding, this innovative look at the state budget provides fresh insights into tough policy questions. For example, Sykes’s carefully documented analysis reveals that “women and girls in Texas have, at every stage of life, among the worst health care access in the U.S. Overall, 23 percent of Texas females have no health insurance, putting the state at 50th in the nation in terms of access to health care.”
Sykes was named President and CEO of the Dallas Women’s Foundation in March 1999 after a lifetime of civic leadership, including years with the Dallas League of Women Voters, Junior League, and City of Dallas Planning Commission. It is now the largest of the 150 women’s foundations around the world. The Foundation grants more than $2 million annually to local programs that benefit women and girls. She is a trustee of Austin College in Sherman, Texas, where she was honored with a Distinguished Alum Award. She has also received the Athena Award from the Dallas Regional Chamber, as well as other recognitions. She is on the Advisory Council of the Women’s Philanthropy Institute at the University of Indiana.
Patrice Vaeth, Dr.P.H., is assistant professor of health promotion and behavioral sciences at the UT School of Public Health/Dallas Regional Campus. She received her doctorate of public health from the School of Public Health, University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Vaeth also completed NIH-funded fellowships in alcohol epidemiology and cardiovascular disease epidemiology. Her research interests include gender and ethnic disparities in health and alcohol epidemiology.
For information, contact John Fullinwider by email at john.fullinwider@utsouthwestern.edu or by phone at 214-648-3801.

The Library’s Spring Showcase, March 29-31, delivers fresh perspectives via four exciting events.
Tuesday, March 29, 12 noon to 1 p.m., McDermott Lecture Hall D1.602
Becky Sykes, President of the Dallas Women’s Foundation, presents “Gendering the Texas Budget: State Priorities as if Women & Children Mattered.” In the face of impending massive revenue shortfalls for health, human services, and education, Sykes’s innovative gender-responsive analysis provides new insights into the state’s most recent $182.5 billion budget which, in her words, “is perhaps the most accurate statement of its real policies and values.” Host: Patrice Vaeth, Dr.P.H. UT School of Public Health. Light lunch served.
Wednesday, March 30, Noon to 1 p.m. South Campus Library, E.3.314.E
Discover the “Latest Digital Tools for Research & Presentation” (e.g., Google’s Fusion Tables, Refine) during this informal workshop presented by Martha Buckbee, M.L.S., and Matt Zimmerman, M.A.. These Library staff members will demonstrate Google’s cutting edge data mapping and presentation tools. Seating is limited; pre-register at: www.utsouthwestern.edu/libraryclasses. Refreshments served; bring your lunch.
Wednesday, March 30, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. South Campus Library
The Library unveils “Dallas Medical History, 1890 – 1975, A Digital Collection”, an online group of more than 500 photos from the UT Southwestern Library’s Archives and History of Medicine collections. These photos illustrate the medical history of Dallas from the opening of Parkland Hospital in 1894 to the expansion of the UT Southwestern campus in the 1970s. See these compelling images at the reception and starting at 5 p.m., enjoy “Reflections on the History of Medicine in Dallas” with John S. Fordtran, M.D., Director of Gastrointestinal Physiology, Baylor University Medical Center. Refreshments and hors d’oeuvres served.
Thursday, March 31, Noon to 1 p.m., McDermott Lecture Hall D1.602
Marvin Dulaney, Ph.D., professor of history, University of Texas at Arlington, speaks on Dismantling Segregation at St. Paul Hospital. Dr. Dulaney, a nationally recognized historian and expert in African American history in Dallas, re-visits this turning point in 1954, when St. Paul became the first local hospital to open its doors to Black physicians. Host: Historian James Hopkins, Ph.D., Southern Methodist University. Light lunch served.
The lectures and reception are open to all; pre-registration is not necessary.
For more information, contact John Fullinwider, 214-648-3801 or Bill Maina, 214-648-2629.

The Library Staff Art Show – on display from March 1, 2011, through May 20, 2011, in the South Campus (Main) Library – highlights the artistic talents of the UT Southwestern Library’s staff and faculty and their family members.
Eighty-one unique works of art are on display, including paintings, photographs, quilts, handcrafted cards, fishing lures, knitting, jewelry, illustrations, poetry, and more. The exhibit is featured on the walls of the Library’s Main Floor and in three of its display cases and is organized by a natural elements theme.
The exhibit was organized by Jane Scott and Anne Hollingworth, with additional curation assistance provided by Catherine Schack and Joseph Tan. A supplemental handout – available at the beginning of the exhibit – includes contact information for the artists and interesting facts about many of the displayed works.