Recently a milestone was reached when for the first time in history, a majority-female officiating crew took the field for an intercollegiate football game between Lane College and Miles College. Four of the seven officials for the game were women. The game was played at Albert J. Sloan-Alumni Stadium at Miles College in Fairfield, Alabama. Miles won the game 38-26.
The women officials were back judge Krystie Appellariz, field judge Sebrina Brunson, head linesman Yvonda Lewis, and line judge Tangela Mitchell.
The National Football League sent scouts to the game, not to look at the players, but to assess the performance of the officials.
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.