Martha A. Smith, president of Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland since August 1994, has announced that she will retire on August 1. Before coming to Anne Arundel Community College, Dr. Smith was dean of students and then president of Dundalk Community College in Baltimore.
A native of Bradford, Pennsylvania, Dr. Smith is a graduate of Slippery Rock University. She earned a master’s degree in educational psychology from the University of Hawaii and a doctorate in higher education administration from the University of Northern Colorado.
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.