Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, has launched the Women Innovating Now Lab business accelerator a new venture to support women entrepreneurs in start-up ventures. The WIN Lab offers undergraduate and graduate students as well as Babson alumnae mentoring and other support in their entrepreneurial efforts. Participants in the venture will learn marketing practices, how to access funding, regulatory compliance, and financial management. They will also be introduced to investors and venture capitalists who may be interested in funding their ventures.
Participants in the WIN Lab will meet on the main Babson campus in Wellesley and also on the satellite campus in Boston’s business district.
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.