Jamienne S. Studley, the former president of Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York, was appointed by President Obama as deputy under secretary at the U.S. Department of Education. Since 2004, Dr. Studley has served as president and CEO of Public Advocates Inc. She also chairs the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity.
This will be Dr. Studley’s second stint at the Department of Education. From 1993 to 1997, she served as deputy general counsel at the department. She is also the former deputy dean of Yale Law School.
Studley is a magna cum laude graduate of Barnard College. She earned a juris doctorate at Harvard Law School.
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.