Susan B. Marine, assistant dean of student life and director of the Harvard College Women’s Center, has announced she will leave Harvard at the close of the academic year to become director of higher education programs at Merrimack College’s Graduate School of Education. Dr. Marine has been at Harvard since 2002.
Rebecca Wardlow has been promoted to provost at Ashford University in Clinton, Iowa. She was executive dean at the university’s College of Education.
Dr. Wardlow is a graduate of San Diego State University. She earned a master’s degree at the University of California at Riverside and an educational doctorate at the University of California at San Diego.
Joye Norris, professor of education at Drury University in Springfield, Illinois, was named associate provost for access and outreach at Missouri State University, also in Springfield. Previously, she was dean of the College of Education at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. She will begin her new job on July 1.
Professor Norris earned her doctoral degree at Illinois State University.
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.