Michelle Mattie, the former director of admissions and financial aid at Westfield State University and the former associate director of financial and counseling services at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, died on September 8 at her home in Easthampton, Massachusetts. She was 60 years old and had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
Mattie was a native of Quincy, Massachusetts. She was a graduate of Braintree High School and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Mattie served on the staff at the University of Massachusetts for 14 years before becoming director of admissions and financial aid at Westfield State.
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.