Salem College, the women’s college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, received a $50,000 grant from the Cobb Foundation of Boca Raton, Florida. The grant money will be used to purchase equipment for the biology, chemistry, and physics departments at the college. Among the equipment expected to be purchased with the funds are microscopes, sensors, spectrometers, an incubator, and a polarimeter.
The Cobb Foundation has been a longtime supporter of Salem College.
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.