Anna F. Dominiczak, the Regius Professor of Medicine and vice principal and director of the College of Medical, Veterinary, and Life Sciences at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, was named editor-in-chief of Hypertension: Journal of the American Heart Association. The journal is published by Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, a division of Wolters Kluwer. She is the first editor-in-chief of the journal to be based in Europe. Dr. Dominiczak previously was editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical Science.
A graduate of the Medical College in Gdansk, Poland, Dr. Dominiczak has been affiliated with the University of Glasgow since 1992.
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.