Tiffany Momon is director of the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University, and Rachel Ceballos is director of the Utah Area Health Education Center at the University of Utah. Nadia Vossoughi and Karen Pearson are new assistant professors at Middlebury College and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, respectively.

The three women who received the Barry Prize for Distinguished Intellectual Achievement are Lara M. Buchak of Princeton University and Jane Kamensky and Bertha Kalifon Madras of Harvard University.

Gabriella Blum has been appointed interim dean of the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Anne Mason was promoted to dean of the College of Nursing at Washington State University, and Melissa Gruys was named dean of the Nistler College of Business & Public Administration at the University of North Dakota.

Professor Bromberg and her co-editor, Jonathan Becker of Bard College, have received the 2026 Frederic W. Ness Book Award, which honors a book that best illuminates the goals and practices of a contemporary liberal education.

The appointments are Helen Bowman at Boston University, Kate Battiato at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cathy Predmore at Ohio State University, Adrian Thomas at Colby College in Maine, Mallory Tuttle at Virginia Tech, and Lisa Grove at Vanderbilt University-San Francisco.

Marlene Neill of Baylor University received the IPR Pathfinder Award for her sustained contributions to public relations research. Heather LaMarre of Temple University received the IPR Breakthrough Insights Award for her new book, Raising Social Capital.

Mount Holyoke College, the selective liberal arts educational institution for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts, has announced the appointment of nine women to assistant professor positions.

Although flexible working arrangements at universities are designed to support faculty members' work-life balance, they often reinforce gendered stereotypes that women should assume primary childcare responsibilities at the expense of their careers.

Dr. Walker, a professor of sport management, currently serves as senior vice president for academic affairs, student affairs, and equity at UMass Amherst. She is slated to assume new responsibilities as interim chancellor of UMass Boston on February 1.

In a study of nearly 1 million hospitalized patients, a research team led by the University of Toronto has found patients who were treated by a female physician have lower 30-day mortality and hospital readmission rates than those treated by a male physician.

Each awardee will receive as much as $500,000 annually for up to five years to build and lead a team that will seek to advance our understanding of the universe.

As of 2025, 32 percent of all adults who hold a bachelor's degree in education are women over the age of 65. In 2010, the largest share of adults holding with bachelor's degree in education were women between the ages of 40 to 65.