The board of trustees of the State University of New York has chosen Martha Asselin to serve as acting president of Schenectady County Community College. Her appointment is effective on March 5 and will last for 12 months or until the board finds a permanent president. The college enrolls about 6,700 students and women make up 56 percent of the student body.
Dr. Asselin has been on the staff at the college since 1990 and currently serves as vice president for student affairs. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oswego and holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the University at Albany of the State University of New York system.
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.