The National Council for Research on Women (NCRW) has recognized Columbia University’s Institute for Research on Women and Gender for its instrumental role in the foundation of a uniquely collaborative advanced study center, the Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference (www.socialdifference.org).  This center for advanced study, launched in spring 2008, was conceived in a historic partnership with four other Centers and Institutes at Columbia to promote interdisciplinary scholarship on the global dimensions of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity.

The National Council for Research on Women (www.ncrw.org) is a network of 120 leading research, policy and advocacy centers. NCRW’s Emerging Center Award is given annually to a new center or one that has experienced significant change in mission or growth within the last five years.