Bryn Mawr College, a highly rated liberal arts college for women in suburban Philadelphia, received a $400,000 grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation for a program that will help women from two community colleges transfer to Bryn Mawr. Under the program, low-income women at the Community College of Philadelphia and Montgomery County Community College will receive assistance, guidance, internships, research opportunities, and mentoring. Some high achieving women at the community colleges will take courses at Bryn Mawr during their second year and be eligible for Bryn Mawr’s junior year study-abroad program.
Although it was initially founded as school for women, the University of Montevallo has never had a woman president. Now the university has reached a historic milestone and selected selected Michelle R. Johnston to serve as its next president.
The women who are taking on new leadership roles with professional academic organizations are Yasmeen Shorish of James Madison University in Virginia, Elena Carbone of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shelley Lusetti of New Mexico State University, Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, and Keisha Blain of Brown University.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a national program run by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Dr. Yelick, a computer scientist and longtime UC Berkeley faculty member, will become the laboratory's next director on July 1.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.