Rachael Van Cleave was named interim dean of the Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco. She has been a professor of law at the school since 2004 and has served as associate dean for academic affairs since 2008.
Van Cleave is a graduate of Stanford University and the Hastings College of Law at the University of California San Francisco.
Kimberly A. Horn was appointed the inaugural associate dean of research at George Washington University’s School of Public Health and Health Services. She was the associate director of population health research at the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at West Virginia University.
Dr. Horn is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She earned a master of social work degree and an educational doctorate at West Virginia 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.