# Teresa Woodruff

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March 20, 2024

In the news today: For our first story of the week focusing on campus news, former MSU Interim President Teresa Woodruff assumes special advisor role, will return to faculty in 2025. For our final story of the day focusing on city news, Haraz Coffee House opened in East Lansing.

March 20, 2024

In the news today: For our first story of the week focusing on campus news, former MSU Interim President Teresa Woodruff assumes special advisor role, will return to faculty in 2025. For our final story of the day focusing on city news, Haraz Coffee House opened in East Lansing.

National Medal of Science awarded to oncofertility innovator, MSU Foundation Professor Teresa Woodruff

Teresa K. Woodruff joined an elite group of Americans who have received two national medals of honor when President Joe Biden announced the latest recipients of the National Medal of Science on Jan. 3.   Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, presented…

Sex, Drugs, And Singing Ovaries

When Teresa Woodruff started working for a biotech company fresh out of graduate school, her employer revealed that the first studies for a new heart attack treatment had been performed on 50,000 men. “And so I kinda raised my hand and said, ‘That’s interesting. Where are all the women?” Today, Ter…

EP 52: Carl G. Hartman Award with Dr. Teresa K. Woodruff

It's a mini lab reunion! Yu-Ying Chen and Shuo Xiao interview their former mentor, Dr. Teresa Woodruff, at the SSR Annual Meeting. Dr. Woodruff, the recipient of the 2025 Carl G. Hartman Award, looks back on her career, sharing the personal story behind her biggest scientific milestones and her fie…

Ep02: Ready... Raise... Go!

The origin story behind the season's tools. From a gap in cancer medicine to founding the field of oncofertility, Teresa Woodruff explains why a coloring book sits at the front door of her lab, and how to use it.

Ep01: Reproductive Science 1, 2, 3

This is reproductive health, not sex ed. Teresa Woodruff reframes the whole conversation around puberty, retires the fifth-grade permission slip, and makes the case for teaching the body the way we teach math: one step at a time.

This is reproductive health, not sex ed.

Teresa Woodruff explains the common misconceptions surrounding puberty and the fundamentals of teaching the basics first. 

Ep04: Schoolhouse Rock Meets Reproductive Science

How Teresa Woodruff and media scholar Ellen Wartella turned puberty into Schoolhouse Rock style cartoons. The science behind "It's a New You, That's Who," and why families remember it for life.

Ep05: A Focus On the Boys

Teresa Woodruff explains the science of male puberty, the experiences no one talks about, and a games-based toolkit for reaching the young man in your life.