Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty 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. Bassler, the Andrew K. Golden University Professor at Princeton University, is known for her foundational research in quorum sensing — the chemical signaling by which bacteria communicate with each other and band together to act collectively.

Melissa Mazan and Amanda Durik are taking on interim dean appointments at the Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and the Northern Illinois University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, respectively. Jenn Snow is dean of the Phyllis J. Washington College of Education at the University of Montana.

Lili He of the University of Massachusetts Amherst is the inaugural recipient of the Phi Tau Sigma Mid-Career Accomplishment Award, which recognizes outstanding mid-career scholars in food science research. Professor He is known for her work in analytical food chemistry and food safety.

The appointments are Erin Cleghorn at Meredith College, Corinne Webster at the University of Tennessee, Rachel Gordon at Northern Illinois University, LaShaunda Reese at Xavier University of Louisiana, Cyndi Beltran at Texas A&M University, Sarah Dundish at the University of California, Los Angeles, Tamara White at the University of Northern Colorado, and Diana Lasswell at Langston University.

Laya Khademibami is an assistant research professor of sustainable bioproducts at Mississippi State University. In her research, she focuses on improving the long-term performance of structural insulated panels.

The women selected for endowed positions in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences are Gundula Kreuzer in music, Nancy Yousef in English, Marlene Daut in Black Studies and in French, and Leah Boustan and Xiaohong Chen in economics.

In an analysis of two large datasets from the U.S. Department of Education, a new study has found students with below-average grades and test scores in high school are more likely to major in a discipline where their gender is overrepresented.

Four years after she was named the first woman president of the University of Texas at Arlington, Dr. Cowley has announced that she will step down and return to the faculty.

“Clinical trial leadership influences which research questions are prioritized, which patient populations are included, how endpoints are selected, and how results are interpreted and disseminated,” the authors write. “As such, disparities in leadership may contribute to inequities in the evidence base that informs clinical practice.”

Prior to her new role, Dr. Walsh was dean and campus director of the University of Maine at Machias. Before that, she spent more than a decade with St. Bonaventure University in New York.

Past-month alcohol use among pregnant women rose from 9 percent in 2011–2012 to a peak of 15 percent in 2021–2022, according to new study from scholars at Columbia University and the University of California, San Diego.