Two Women Professors Named Chair of Their Academic Departments

Rachel A. Segalman was appointed chair of the department of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She joined the faculty at the university in 2014 holding the Edward N. Kramer Chair in Materials. Previously, she served on the chemical engineering faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. There, she also was the acting director of the Material Science Division of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories.

Professor Segalman is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. She earned a Ph.D. at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Anna Zajicek was named chair of the department of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. She joined the faculty at the university in 1994 and previously served as vice chair of the department, director of the graduate studies program, and chair of the graduate program.

Dr. Zajicek holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Silesia in Poland. She earned a Ph.D. in sociology at Virginia Tech.