Amy Howell was appointed chair of the department of chemistry at the University of Connecticut. She has been on the faculty at the university since 1994.
A graduate of Wheaton College, Professor Howell worked as a high school teacher at a Navajo Methodist Mission School in New Mexico and at the College of West Africa in Monrovia, Liberia, before attending the University of Kentucky, where she earned her Ph.D. in organic chemistry.
Lynn M. Shore was named chair of the department of management at the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University. She has been a member of the department’s faculty since 2004 and also serves as co-director of the university’s Institute for Inclusiveness and Diversity in Organizations.
Professor Shore is a graduate of the University of Oregon and earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. at Colorado State 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.