Margaret Leinen was appointed the director of the highly regarded Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California at San Diego. She also will serve as dean of the School of Marine Sciences and vice provost of the university for marine sciences. Dr. Leinen has been serving as associate provost of marine and environmental initiatives and executive director of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, a unit of Florida Atlantic University located in Fort Pierce. Previously, she served for nearly a decade at the National Science Foundation and earlier was dean of the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island.
Dr. Leinen is the founder and past president of the Climate Response Fund and a past president of The Oceanography Society. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Dr. Leinen holds a master’s degree in geological oceanography from Oregon State University and a Ph.D. in oceanography from the University of Rhode Island.
Dr. Burris has served as provost of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina for the past four years. She is slated to become the next president of SUNY's Buffalo State University on July 1.
Dr. Thompson's appointment marks a return to Union Theological Seminary, where she previously taught for three years. Most recently, she was the Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair of Black Homiletics & Liturgics at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Julie Sanford of the University of Alabama, Eileen Boris of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Itohan Osayimwese of Brown University, Jane Grant-Kels of the University of Connecticut, and Rani Sullivan of Mississippi State University have been appointed to leadership positions with professional organizations in their academic fields of study.
For the past two years, Dr. Torti has served as president of the College of the Atlantic in Maine. Earlier, she was dean of the Honors College at the University of Utah.
Dr. Martin has led Kilgore College on an interim basis since November 2025. She has been an administrator with the community college for the past 25 years.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.
The University of Arizona School of Music seeks a visionary and collaborative Director to lead its comprehensive music program through a time of opportunity and transformation.
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.