The University of Tennessee at Knoxville has announced four finalists for the position of associate provost and director of the Chancellor’s Honors and Haslam Scholars programs. Two of the four candidate are women.
Lori J. Underwood is an associate professor and chair of the department of philosophy and religious studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virgina. She is also the director of the university’s Canon Leadership Scholars Program. She joined the faculty at the university in 1999.
Dr. Underwood holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Memphis. She earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Missouri.
Rhonda Phillips is a professor in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University. She is also associate dean of the Honors College.
Dr. Phillips holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Southern Mississippi. She earned a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dr. Weir is a senior lecturer of global affairs at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. She was recently named the inaugural executive director of the Jackson School's new Center for Peace and the Global Good, a hub for scholars and students working to address challenges in human rights and global health.
Dr. Maggioni comes to her new role with more than 15 years of teaching and leadership experience in higher education. Most recently, she was assistant provost at Massachusetts Bay Community College
Dr. Blankenbaker has served as president of the Tarrant County College Northwest campus since 2017. She recently assumed additional responsibilities as the chief academic officer for the community college's online and in-person campuses.
Most recently, Dr. Hooyman was vice president of academic affairs and provost of Northwest Missouri State University. She was the first woman to serve in that role.
Born and raised in Alaska, Dr. O'Hara previously spent more than two decades with the College of Education at California State University, Sacramento. More recently, she was executive director of Sierra College's Nevada County Campus.
The Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, anticipates offering a number of postdoctoral or more senior research positions in theory, observation, and instrumentation, including (but not limited to): the Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellowship; the Henry Norris Russell Postdoctoral Fellowship; The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Management Team; and positions in research related to exoplanet theory, interstellar medium/star formation, plasma astrophysics, and supernovae.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seeks candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the tenure track.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seek candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the non-tenure clinician educator track.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions in Economics at the Assistant Professor level.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, College of Engineering at Texas A&M University, invites applications for ten full-time, tenure-track or tenure review upon hire, at all levels (Assistant, Associate, and Full Professor) with a nine-month academic appointment.