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Women's News: Campuses Failing On Assaults

KUNM | By Megan Kamerick

Published July 12, 2014 at 12:00 PM MDT

July 12, 2014 Study finds 40 percent of colleges and universities have not conducted sexual assault investigations in the past five years; Syrian families increasingly headed by struggling women; some girls escape Boko Haram, but more than 200 still held hostage; Egyptian doctor stands trial for female genital mutilation following death of girl; Mexican high court orders government to pay damages for imprisoning indigenous woman; Congressional Democrats draft bill to override Supreme Court decision on contraception; Michelle J. Howard becomes first female four-star admiral in U.S. Navy history and highest ranking African-American woman in military; startup company develops wireless contraceptive microchip for sub-dermal implant; feminist blogosphere piles on Tom Junod for Esquire article declaring women over 40 are suddenly sexy; Money magazine honors Glenys Carl of Santa Fe for her work training volunteers to be in-home caregivers.

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Megan Kamerick

Megan has been a journalist for 25 years and worked at business weeklies in San Antonio, New Orleans and Albuquerque. She first came to KUNM as a phone volunteer on the pledge drive in 2005. That led to volunteering on Women’s Focus, Weekend Edition and the Global Music Show. She was then hired as Morning Edition host in 2015, then the All Things Considered host in 2018. Megan was hired as News Director in 2021.

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