Barnard College. Center for Research on Women.

Founded in 1971 as the Barnard Women's Center and renamed ca. 1991 as the Center for Research on Women, this department was one of the first dedicated to Women's Studies in the U.S. The Center sponsors many programs and publications including: "The Scholar and the Feminist" conference which began in 1974, the Helen Rogers Reid Lectureship, beginning around the same time and more recently, the Roslyn Silver Science Lectureship. The Women's Studies department at Barnard which began in 1977 was developed with the participation of the Women's Center.