UR academics Jessica Cantlon and Celeste Kidd drew attention to under reported sexual harassment and abuse in academia. Cantlon said that this award has demonstrated that issues of sexual harassment are finally gaining the public attention and response necessary to inflict change. “I think that this is one of the biggest civil rights issues of our time. I think one thing that has changed is people used to think about sexual harassment as an interpersonal dispute and something that should be considered private. Women were kind of left to solve that problem on their own.” More here.