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.

Dr. Frost has been a member of the Great Falls College community since 2011. For the past six years, she has served as executive director of instruction and student success.

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

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.

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

The six women promoted to associate professor and granted tenure in the College of Science at Clemson University in South Carolina are Sharon Bewick, Miriam Konkel, Lela Lackey, Xinyi Li, Emily E. Rosowski, and Anna Seekatz.

Steinem, a magna cum laude graduate of Smith College, was a journalist and renowned women's rights activist for over half a century. Among her many accomplishments including co-founding Ms., a magazine centered on issues relating to modern women.

Over the past year, 27 faculty members have departed Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. Among these exiting faculty are 11 professors who took advantage of a recent early retirement buyout program, which allowed the women's college to better "align academic offerings with changing student needs."