On August 1, Roberta Sloan will become dean of the newly reorganized College of Fine Arts and Mass Communication at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Dr. Sloan has been serving as Faculty Arts Fellow and chair of the Commission on the Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. She was chair of the department of theater at Temple from 2006 to 2010. She previously taught at the University of Central Florida and the University of Central Oklahoma.
Dean Sloan is a graduate of Northwestern University. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees from 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.