Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.

Four women faculty members at the University at Buffalo have been named SUNY Distinguished Professors — the highest rank in the State University of New York System. They are Suzanne S. Dickerson in nursing, Melanie Green in communication, Maria Kraimer in organizational behavior, and Pauline Mendola in epidemiology and environmental health.

Dr. McKinney recently retired earlier this year as a professor emerita of music at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. She served as founding director of the university's graduate and undergraduate programs in music therapy.

The University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine has partnered with Norvatis to expand access to early breast cancer detection among women from underserved communities in Los Angeles County. In addition to providing direct care, the partnership will focus on leveraging data science to identify gaps in healthcare access and develop solutions.

The three women scholars named to endowed professorships at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, are Nadia Ayoub in biology, Aliaa Bassiouny in finance, and Molly Michelmore in history.

Dr. Benningfield taught in Virginia Tech's doctoral program in marriage and family therapy for nearly a decade. She was a leader in the broader field of counseling and was twice elected president of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

The women faculty appointed to new roles are Jennifer Cochran at Stanford University, Sekyung Jang at the University of Cincinnati, Rebecca Puhl at the University of Connecticut, Cristina Bodea at Michigan State University, Paula Lemons at the University of Georgia, Allison Rice at the University of Notre Dame, Betsy Sinclair at Washington University, and Angela Hosek at Ohio University.

The honorees are Rachael Chanin at Stanford University, Amy C. Fan at the University of Caliofornia, San Francisco, Simone Park at the University of Pennsylvania, Carolina Rodriguez Tirado at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, New York, and Madeline Rollins at the University of Chicago.

The new deans are Angela Pool-Funai at the University of Wyoming, Catherine Bradshaw at Johns Hopkins University, Katherine Eggert at the University of Colorado Boulder, Marcia Weiss at Thomas Jefferson University, Yael Grushka-Cockayne at the University of Virginia, Azadeh Keivani at Lehman College, and Julie Amador at the University of Idaho.

The women who have recently received awards for their new books are Julia Elliott of the University of South Carolina, Min Kyung Lee of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Anne E. Marshall at Mississippi State University.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Dr. Currie, an endowed professor at Yale University, is known as a pioneer in the economics of child development. Her work has significant advanced the understanding of how family, social, environmental, and healthcare factors impact children's longterm outcomes.