Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, has appointed two women to named professorships.
Lynn Cooley is the C.N.H. Long Professor of Genetics. Her research is focused on oogenesis, the process of egg development. She is a graduate of Connecticut College and earned a Ph.D. at the University of Texas. She conducted postdoctoral research at the Carnegie Institute for Science.
Rajita Sinha, director of the Yale Interdisciplinary Stress Center, was named the Foundations’ Fund Professor of Psychiatry at Yale. Her research concerns the relationship between stress and addiction.
Dr. Sinha holds a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and a clinical Ph.D. from Yale University.
Dr. Scarlatta has led the University of Michigan-Dearbon on an interim basis for the past year. Pending approval from the board of regents, she is slated to become the university's permanent leader on May 22.
Nicole Reaves has been serving as executive vice president and chief programs officer at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. On July 15, she is slated to become the first woman president of Schenectady County Community College within the State University of New York System.
Dr. Bear, a longtime leader and advocate for international public health, is the new leader of Jhpiego, a Johns Hopkins University-affiliated global health organization dedicated to improving the health and lives of women and families around the world.
Dr. Fleuriet comes to her new role from the University of Texas at San Antonio, where she has been serving as vice provost for honors education and a professor of anthropology.
Dr. Burris has served as provost of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina for the past four years. She is slated to become the next president of SUNY's Buffalo State University 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.
The University of Arizona School of Music seeks a visionary and collaborative Director to lead its comprehensive music program through a time of opportunity and transformation.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seek candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the non-tenure clinician educator track.