Jean Landa Pytel, assistant dean for student services and global programs and associate professor of engineering science and mechanics at Pennsylvania State University, has announced that she will retire at the end of 2013. Dr. Pytel has served on the faculty at Penn State since 1979 and has been assistant dean for nearly 20 years.
Dr. Pytel is a graduate of York University in Toronto. She holds a master’s degree in physical education from Washington State University and a Ph.D. in biomechanics from Penn State.
Trudy Anderson, associate vice president of the University of Idaho and CEO of the university’s Boise campus, has announced that she will step down from her post at the end of the calendar year. She has led the Boise campus of the university for the past seven years.
Dr. Anderson is a graduate of Oregon State University, where she majored in sociology. She holds a doctorate in higher education administration from Ohio State University.
Dr. Weir is a senior lecturer of global affairs at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. She was recently named the inaugural executive director of the Jackson School's new Center for Peace and the Global Good, a hub for scholars and students working to address challenges in human rights and global health.
Dr. Maggioni comes to her new role with more than 15 years of teaching and leadership experience in higher education. Most recently, she was assistant provost at Massachusetts Bay Community College
Dr. Blankenbaker has served as president of the Tarrant County College Northwest campus since 2017. She recently assumed additional responsibilities as the chief academic officer for the community college's online and in-person campuses.
Most recently, Dr. Hooyman was vice president of academic affairs and provost of Northwest Missouri State University. She was the first woman to serve in that role.
Born and raised in Alaska, Dr. O'Hara previously spent more than two decades with the College of Education at California State University, Sacramento. More recently, she was executive director of Sierra College's Nevada County Campus.
The UCLA Department of Psychology invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor of Teaching who will contribute to the development and teaching of undergraduate courses in the newly established Youth Behavioral Health undergraduate minor.
The Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, anticipates offering a number of postdoctoral or more senior research positions in theory, observation, and instrumentation, including (but not limited to): the Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellowship; the Henry Norris Russell Postdoctoral Fellowship; The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Management Team; and positions in research related to exoplanet theory, interstellar medium/star formation, plasma astrophysics, and supernovae.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seeks candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the tenure track.
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.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago invites applications for tenure-track faculty positions in Economics at the Assistant Professor level.