The Committee on Academic Priorities at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania has recommended changes in the graduate programs offered at the highly rated women’s college. The committee recommended that the graduate program in psychology be discontinued and the resulting savings redirected to the undergraduate program in the same discipline. The master’s degree program in French is also being continued.
The college has completed an evaluation of its Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research as well as graduate programs in archaelology, Classics, and art history and these programs will continue. Evaluations of graduate programs in physics, chemistry, and mathematics are ungoing.
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.