Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently granted tenure to five women scholars in the School of Engineering: Christina Delimitrou, Sili Deng, Carmen Guerra-Garcia, Laura Lewis, and Tami Lieberman.

As a scholar, Dr. Hesse-Biber is known for her research on women's health and body image, women and work, feminist sociology, mixed method inquiry, and hereditary breast cancer. She has retired from Boston College after 50 years of service.

Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.

Angela Boswell was named interim dean of the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities. Heather Schugar was appointed interim dean of the College of Education and Vanessa Kahen is interim dean of the College of Health Sciences.

Dr. Logan was in her 13th year of teaching as a professor of sociology at Hastings College in Nebraska at the time of her passing. She had a wide range of scholarly interests, including social justice, criminology, and women's and gender studies.

“This encyclopedia comes at a time when matters related to gender and education are increasingly fraught and urgent in the United States and globally and is an invaluable resource for anyone looking to understand how gender shapes educational experiences and outcomes,” said co-editor Sherry Deckman of the City University of New York.

The three women promoted to full professor at Hamilton College in New York are Kate Brown in physics, Courtney Gibbons in mathematics and statistics, and Pavitra Sundar in literature and creative writing.

In 1965, Dr. Huang became the first woman hired to a tenure-track professorship in the physical sciences at Johns Hopkins University. An expert in genetics, she authored more than 300 papers, held 16 patents, and mentored more than 100 students and postdocs throughout her lifetime.

The women who have been appointed to new academic leadership roles are Kyna Shelley, Michelle Gray, Christi Brookes, Shirley Clark, Ruth Varner, Janette Kim, Amy Eyler, Stephanie King, and Rima Nakkash.

Dr. Andrei, a distinguished professor at Rutgers University in New Jersey, was honored for her foundational work that established the field of twistronics, an emerging scientific discipline based on the method of combining and twisting two or more atomically thin layers stacked on top of each other.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new dean 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.