“We know that women and men age differently; the challenge is understanding why,” said Jennifer Ailshire, co-director of the new center. “By bringing together expertise that has traditionally been separated, GeroSCORE will help uncover how biology, environment and life experiences combine to shape aging.”

Dr. Coultas served as president of La Roche College (now University) in Pittsburgh from 1975 to 1981. Before her presidency, she taught as a professor of psychology and served as the college's dean of students.

Since 2021, Dr. Raver has been serving as provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. She will begin her new duties at the University of Michigan on December 1.

The women who have been selected for new academic roles are Colleen Murphy at the University of Illinois, Nathalia Jaramillo at Wayne State University, Amy Rector at Virginia Commonwealth University, Jennifer Detlor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Lan Luo at the University of Southern California, Stephanie Bonnes at the University of New Haven, and Tracy Fasolino at Kennesaw State University.

Professor Fernandez Lynch currently teaches as an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine and the Carey Law School. She is known for her work on clinical research ethics and regulation, access to investigational medicine, and FDA pharmaceutical policy.

The new deans are Carrie Hoverman Colla at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, Caddie Putnam Rankin at Washington College in Maryland, Dawna Jones at Duke University in North Carolina, and Sarah Hartman at Tusculum University in Tennessee.

The National Association of College and University Business Officers is honoring Dawn Rhodes, chief business and finance officer and senior vice president at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.

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.

Jordana B. Cohen of the University of Pennsylvania and Daria V. Ilatovskaya of Augusta University have been honored by the American Journal of Hypertension for their outstanding research contributions in clinical science and basic science, respectively.

Katrina Spencer and Kerry Bierman are the new chief financial officers at Yale University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, respectively. Amy Bantle is chief marketing and communications officer at Washington University in Missouri.

According to new research from Pew Research Center, nearly three-quarters of all Americans are uncomfortable with transgender athletes competing on sports teams that do not match with their assigned sex at birth. Opinions on this topic vary significantly by political affiliation, with smaller variations emerging among gender, racial, and age groups.

Dr. Rhine comes to her new presidency with nearly four decades of leadership experience in higher education. Most recently, she was president and chief executive officer of Yavapai College in Prescott, Arizona.