Frances E. Lund was named to the Charles H. McCauley Endowed Chair in Microbiology at the University of Alabama Birmingham. She will also chair the department of microbiology. Since 2008, Dr. Lund has been a professor in the department of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester.
Dr. Lund is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame. She holds a Ph.D. in microbiology from Duke University.
Anne L. Alstott was appointed the Jacquin D. Bierman Professor of Taxation at Yale Law School. She was a member of the faculty at Yale Law from 1997 to 2008 and served twice as deputy dean. For the past three years she has been the Manley O. Hudson Professor at Harvard Law School. She is the author of No Exit: What Parents Owe Children and What Society Owes Parents (Oxford University Press, 2004) and coauthor of The Stakeholder Society (Yale University Press, 1999).
Professor Alstott is a summa cum laude graduate of Georgetown University and earned her law degree at Yale.
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.