A Dozen Women With New Administrative Duties in Higher Education

Carrie Landa was named director of behavioral medicine for Student Health Services at Boston University. In this role she will oversee the work of 17 psychiatrists, psychologists, and mental health professionals. She has been serving as interim director and has been on the staff since 2009.

Dr. Landa’s research focuses on eating disorders among college women. She is a graduate of the University of New Hampshire and holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Suffolk University in Boston.

Brianna Bunce-Douglas was promoted to associate vice president for administration at Coker College in Hartsville, South Carolina. She was director of human resources at the college. She has been on the staff at the college since 2009.

Bunce-Douglas holds bachelor’s degrees from Coker College and the University of South Carolina. She earned an MBA at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville.

Mary Corcoran was appointed assistant dean for finance at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Since 2008, Corcoran has been associate chair and director of finance and administration in the department of pediatrics of the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Corcoran is a magna cum laude graduate of Southeast Missouri State University.

Windsor Westbrook Sherrill is the new associate vice president for health research at Clemson University in South Carolina. She also serves as chief science officer for the Greenville Health System.

Dr. Sherrill is a graduate of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she majored in biology. She earned a master’s degree in health and business administration from the University of Alabama Birmingham and a Ph.D. in health policy from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

Deborah Blum was named as the next director of the Knight Science Journalism Program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She will take on this new role in July 2015. The program is a fellowship opportunity for leading journalists to spend a year at MIT. Currently Blum is the Helen Firstbrook Franklin Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Blum is a graduate of the University of Georgia and holds a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin. In 1992, she won the Pulitzer Prize as a reporter for the Sacramento Bee.  She is the author of several books including The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Penguin Press, 2010).

Sandy Barbour was named director of athletics at Pennsylvania State University. Since 2004, she has been director of athletics at the University of California, Berkeley. Earlier in her career she was director of athletics at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Barbour is a graduate of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She holds a master’s degree in sports management from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA from Northwestern University.

Tiffany C. Graham is the new associate dean of academic affairs at the University of South Dakota School of Law. She was the associate dean of academic affairs and professor of law at the University of La Verve College of Law in Ontario, California. Earlier, she taught at the law school of Villanova University in Pennsylvania.

Professor Graham is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Yana Cornish was appointed director of education abroad for the Office of International Education at the University of Georgia. She was the director of study abroad programs for the University of Northern Iowa.

Dr. Cornish holds a master’s degree from Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia and a second master’s degree and a doctorate in curriculum and instruction from the University of Northern Iowa.

Annie Wright was named director of development and external affairs for the College of Social Sciences and Communication at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. She was the director of major gifts and special projects at the University of Central Arkansas.

Wright holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Central Arkansas.

Gabrielle Banick is the new assistant vice president for P-16 Initiatives at the University of Nebraska. Since 2010 she has served as dean of general education and academic support at Blackhawk Technical College in Janesville, Wisconsin.

Dr. Banick holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Nebraska. She earned a second master’s degree at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin, and a doctorate in educational administration from the University of Wisconsin.

Rhonda Kitch was promoted to registrar at North Dakota State University in Fargo. She has served as associate registrar for the past decade and has been interim registrar since May 2014.

Kitch is a graduate of Minot State University in North Dakota. She earned a master’s degree in counseling and student affairs from Minnesota State University-Moorhead. She is currently a doctoral candidate in education at North Dakota State University.

Ellen de Graffenreid was appointed vice chancellor of marketing and communications at the University of Missouri in Columbia. She has been serving as senior vice president for communications at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.

De Graffenreid is a graduate of Indiana University. She holds a master’s degree in Russian and Soviet history and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.