Sharyn Potter

At the University of Montana, You Must Pass an Anti-Rape Test Before You Register

At the University of Montana, students must complete a mandatory bystander intervention training course based off of PIRC's Bringing in the Bystander In-Person Prevention Program.

Long-term impacts of college sexual assaults on women survivors' educational and career attainments

PIRC researchers, Sharyn Potter, Rebecca Howard, Sharon Murphy, and Mary Moynihan, have published a new study in the Journal of American College Health focusing on the long-term educational and...

WMCC Assembles Task Force On Sexual Assault Prevention And Policy

In December, WMCC formed a Task Force comprised of students, faculty, staff and representatives of WMCC's three local domestic and sexual violence crisis centers.

The Importance of Cultural Change

PIRC co-directors, Sharyn Potter and Jane Stapleton, outline a framework for reducing sexual harassment in the workplace in the January 2018 edition of Business NH Magazine.

What if an App Could Help Prevent College Student Sexual Assault

Laura Black, Illinois School and Campus Safety Program Coordinator uSafeUS is featured on page 4 of the December issue of Illinois School & Campus Safety News.

The #MeToo Moment: How to Be a (Good) Bystander

PIRC's Sharyn Potter is quoted in this New York Times article about the importance of bystander intervention in the era of the #MeToo social change campaign.

PIRC's Potter and Eckstein Quoted in New York Times Article

PIRC's Sharyn Potter and Robert Eckstein are quoted in this New York Times article, discussing the effectiveness of bystander intervention training and its use to combat sexual harassment in the...

PIRC Participates in Congressional Roundtable Hosted by Bipartisan Task Force to End Sexual Assault

PIRC Co-Director, Jane Stapleton, participated in a Congressional Roundtable on Promoting Healthy Relationships in K-12 Education and Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence on College Campuses...

Multiple sexual violence prevention tools: doses and boosters

PIRC researchers examine best practices in campus sexual violence prevention programs in this article featured in the Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. Click here to read.

UNH-developed APP Aims to Prevent Sexual Assault

Prevention Innovations Research Center researcher Rebecca Howard shares her own experience at the uSafeUS press briefing.

KU's new sexual assault prevention training program has positive 1st year

Rebekah Lodos Eighty-seven percent of returning students to the University of Kansas report feeling more confident in their ability to participate in bystander intervention after completing the...

Annual HeForShe Report Highlights Georgetown's Sexual Assault Prevention Initiatives

Alfredo Carrillo and Christian Paz The UN Women 2017 HeForShe report, released Wednesday morning, commended Georgetown for its efforts to counter gender-based violence through sexual assault...

UNH Sophomore Helps Develop Sex Assault Prevention App

TJ Evarts '21, a chemical engineering major, helped develop the recently launched prevention app uSafeUS aimed at helping victims of sexual assault on college campuses connect with resources.

U of S takes proactive approach in hopes of preventing sexual assaults on campus

Meaghan Craig Starting this year, faculty and staff at the University of Saskatchewan will attend "Bringing in the Bystander" training and share what they learned with students on how to prevent...

UNH Researchers: Campus sexual assault significantly affects academics

PIRC researchers find that campus sexual assault significantly affects academics.

PIRC Selected as Finalist for 2017 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award

In recognition of their extraordinary community outreach initiatives, four member universities of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) have been selected as regional winners...

Employee of Lebanon, N.H., Nonprofit Honored For Efforts to End Gender-Based Violence

Kate Rohdenburg, program director for WISE, has recieved the annual Practitioner Award from the Prevention Innovations Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.

The Second Report of the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault

In this report from the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, Bringing in the Bystander® is cited as a prevention program that works to "increase college students’...

Commitment to Bystander Intervention

The "Bringing in the Bystander" Program is mentioned directly in this opinion piece by Georgetown University student, Olivia Hinerfeld, about the importance of bystander intervention on college...

Psychologists Reveal Tactics for Confronting Offensive Speech

PIRC Director, Sharyn Potter, is quoted in this article discussing how to confront offensive speech.

Psychologists Reveal Tactics for Confronting Offensive Speech

PIRC Director, Sharyn Potter, is quoted in this article discussing how to confront offensive speech.

How to confront sexist “locker room talk,” according to science

PIRC Executive Director of Practice, Sharyn Potter, is quoted in this Vox article about how to intervene in uncomfortable situations.

Lessons in the Delicate Art of Confronting Offensive Speech

PIRC Executive Director of Practice, Sharyn Potter, is quoted in this New York Times article about confronting offensive speech.

UNH Launches New Campus Sexual Assault Prevention App

Campus sexual assault prevention app uSafeNH is now available for download—coverage from Foster's Daily Democrat.

Parents Join Schools In Starting Early Dialogue On Sexual Assault

PIRC's Caroline Leyva is quoted in this NPR story on collaboration between parents and schools to facilitate a dialogue on sexual assault prevention.

New Sexual Assault Policy Approved by Board of Governors

Prevention Innovations in the media: University of Manitoba Today News

New Hampshire to develop app for sexual assault survivors

Prevention Innovations Research Center in the media: New Hampshire to develop app for sexual assault survivors

Stanford Sexual Assault Case Shows How Bystander Intervention Works to Stop Rape

Prevention Innovations Research Center in the Toronto Star

You Don’t Need Two Swedish Men at Stanford to Stop a Rape

Prevention Innovations Research Center in the media: You don’t need two Swedish men at Stanford to stop a rape

UNH Receives $25,000 Grant to Develop App for College Sexual Assault Survivors

Thanks to funding from the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (NHCF), and several statewide partnerships, students, faculty and staff at 23 New Hampshire colleges and universities will have instant...

Devemos ensinar respeito às mulheres já na infância, diz especialista

Prevention Innovations Research Center co-director and sociology professor Sharyn Potter is quoted in "Folha de S. Paulo," a Brazilian news outlet.

UNH-developed app wins $25K Entrepreneurs Fund Grant

USAFENH Will Be Launched with Help from $25,000 Grant

4 Questions You Need to Ask Your Future College Before You Go There

edited by Luis Correa-Díaz and Scott Weintraub Editorial Universidad Central (2016) "Poéticas y poesías digitales/electrónicas/tecnos/New-Media en América Latina: Definiciones y exploraciones," translated as "Digital Poetry and Poetics—Electronic—Techno—

This Is Why Every College Is Talking About Bystander Intervention

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