Teresa Huerta, an associate professor of literary, early, bilingual, and special education at California State University, Fresno, received the 2015 Educator of the Year Award from the Association of Mexican American Educators. She joined the faculty at the university in 2006.
Dr. Huerta is a graduate of California State University, Fresno, where she majored in liberal studies. She earned a master’s degree in education at California State University, San Diego and a doctorate in education at Harvard University.
Charmaine Cadeau, an assistant professor of English at High Point University in North Carolina, received the ReLit Award, which honors the best new books from Canadian independent publishers. Dr. Cadeau was honored for her poetry collection Placeholder (Brick Books, 2013).
A native of Toronto, Dr. Cadeau holds a master’s degree from the University of New Brunswick and a Ph.D. in literature from the University at Albany of the State University of New York System.
J. Elisenda Grigsby, an assistant professor of mathematics at Boston College, is the inaugural recipient of the Joan and Joseph Birman Research Prize in Topology and Geometry presented by the Association for Women in Mathematics. Dr. Grigsby joined the faculty at Boston College in 2009.
Dr. Grigsby is a graduate of Harvard University and holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Mary Lloyd Ireland, an associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Kentucky, received the 2015 Citation Award from the American College of Sports Medicine. She specializes in ACL injuries of women athletes.
Dr. Ireland is a graduate of the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine.
Dr. Pfluger has spent the past year as Bakersfield College's interim president. She previously served as vice chancellor of educational services and student success at the Kern Community College District.
Dr. Geneco comes to her new role from Tufts University in Massachusetts, where she has served as provost for the past four years. She is slated become the University at Buffalo's first woman president on August 10.
The new presidents are Laurie A. Boeding at the Technical College of the Lowcountry and Melissa Frank-Alston at Northeastern Technical College. Both women are expected to begin their presidencies on July 1.
Dr. McEwen comes to her new appointment following four years as president and vice chancellor of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Earlier, she served in several leadership roles at the University of Toronto Mississauga. She received some of her education in the United States.
The new provosts are Barbara Rodriguez at the University of New Mexico, Bridget Chalk at Manhattan University in New York, and Jaci Lederman at Vincennes University in Indiana. All three women had been serving as their university's interim provost.