Three Women in New Teaching Roles

jane-shelbyJane Shelby, was named to the Louis L. Kralick Professorship on the Alaska campus of the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (WWAMI) School of Medical Education. Dr. Shelby joined the faculty at the University of Alaska at Anchorage in 2011.

Professor Shelby holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, all from the University of Utah.

o'harraBrooke O’Harra is a new assistant professor of theater at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She is a former resident artist at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company in New York City. She has taught at Mount Holyoke College and New York University.

O’Harra is a graduate of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. She holds a master of fine arts degree in theater from Tulane University in New Orleans.

WagenseilJessica Wagenseil is a new associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Washington University in St. Louis. She was on the biomedical engineering faculty at Saint Louis University for the past four years.

A graduate of the University of California at San Diego, Dr. Wagenseil earned her doctoral degree at Washington University and did postdoctoral research in cell biology and physiology at the Washington University School of Medicine.

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