Theresa Tensuan was named dean of multicultural affairs at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Since 2002, she has served as an assistant professor of English.
Dr. Tensuan is a graduate of Haverford College. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
Sara L. Campbell is the new dean of the School of Nursing at the University of South Carolina Aiken. She was interim dean for the Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University.
Dr. Campbell holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Illinois State University. She earned a Ph.D. in nursing administration from Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis.
Laurie A. Leshin was appointed dean of the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. The appointment is effective on October 1. She was deputy associate administrator of exploration systems for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Dr. Leshin is a graduate of Arizona State University and holds a Ph.D. in geochemistry from California Institute of Technology.
Mary E. Kerr is the new dean at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She also holds the May L. Wykle Endowed Professorship in Nursing. She was the deputy director of the National Institute for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Kerr is a graduate of Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. She earned a master’s degree at the University of Pittsburgh and a Ph.D. in nursing at Case Western Reserve 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.