Rachel Gartner was named director of Jewish chaplaincy at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She will assume her new position in August. Currently Gartner is rabbi and executive director of the Hillel chapter at Miami University in Ohio.
Rabbi Gartner is a graduate of Barnard College in New York City and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Wyncote, Pennsylvania.
Laura M. Montgomery was named associate dean of global and experimental learning at Wheaton College in Illinois. She is currently professor of anthropology at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. Dr. Montgomery will start at Wheaton College in January.
Dr. Montgomery is a graduate of Wheaton College. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Michigan State University.
Suzanne Lenhart was named Chancellor Professor at the University of Tennessee. This is the university’s highest academic honor. Dr. Lenhart has been a professor of mathematics at the university since 1981.
Dr. Lenhart is a graduate of Bellarmine College in Louisville, Kentucky and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.
Beverly J. Warren was appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. She has been serving in the position on an interim basis for the past year. Previously, she was dean of the university’s School of Education.
Dr. Warren is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She holds a master’s degree from Southern Illinois University, an educational doctorate from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in exercise physiology from Auburn University.
Ann Marie Lipinski was named curator of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. Lipinski, former editor of the Chicago Tribune and a 1998 Pulitzer Prize winner, was a senior lecturer and vice president for civic engagement at the University of Chicago. Lipinski is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
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.