CherylHealton was appointed dean of global public health and the inaugural director of the Global Institute of Public Health at New York University. She was president and CEO of the Legacy Foundation and an associate dean and professor of public health at Columbia University.
Dr. Healton is a graduate of New England College in Henniker, New Hampshire. She holds a master of public health degree from New York University and a doctor of public health degree from Columbia University.
Lynda Ransdell is the new dean of the College of Education, Health, and Human Development at Montana State University. Since 2004, Dr. Ransdell has served on the kinesiology department faculty at Boise State University in Idaho.
Dean Ransdell is a graduate of Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. She earned a master’s degree at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and a doctorate in exercise and wellness education from Arizona 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.