Kathryn A. Hall was elected chair of the executive committee of the board of trustees at Princeton University. She is CEO and chief investment officer at Hall Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based investment firm. Hall, a 1980 graduate of Princeton, will be the first woman to head the university’s board of trustees.
At the University of Minnesota, Linda Cohen was elected chair of the board of regents. Cohen is a licensed psychologist and family therapist. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in chemistry. She holds a master’s degree in the history of science at Harvard University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota.