Chancellor Henry Yang (standing, left) and Executive Vice Chancellor Gene Lucas sang the praises of women authors at the Women’s Center’s 13th annual Women Authors Reception last month. Among the honored were, seated, from left, Alice O’Connor, history; Claudine Michel, Black Studies Research Center; Carol Genetti, linguistics; Maria Herrera-Sobek, Chicana/o studies; Jenny Cook-Gumperz, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education; Katharina Schreiber, anthropology; Jung Jung-sun (“Sunny”), East Asian languages and cultural studies; and Bella DePaulo, psychology. Twelve other authors were unable to attend the reception.

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