The Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States recently announced the selection of 16 Churchill Scholars in science, math, and engineering for the 2026-27 academic year. Eight are women who will spend the next academic year at the University of Cambridge in England.
Dr. Tuminez is the first woman to serve as president of Utah Valley University on a full-time basis. She is slated to conclude her presidency on May 1, following over seven years of service.
Dr. Valdiviezo was a professor of education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. A scholar of educational ethnography, she served as chair of the department of teacher education and curriculum studies and as director of the Center for Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino Studies.
The National Academy of Education has elected 19 distinguished education scholars and leaders to its membership. Of the 19 new members of the National Academy of Education, 12 are women.
South Dakota State University in Brookings has announced the appoitments of aeven scholars to endowed positions. Five of these appointment went to women.
Monica J. Posey was named president of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in 2016, making her the first African American woman president of a major educational institution in the Cincinnati metropolitan area. She will retire from the college in August, following over three decades of administrative service.
Dr. Yu taught language courses at Middlebury College in Vermont for two decades. From 2006 to 2008, she served as president of the newly established Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Leveraging perspectives from cognitive science, social psychology, philosophy, science and technology studies, and data science, Dr. Crockett's lab investigates relationships between self and society, power and knowledge, and technology and culture.
The new deans are Aneika L. Simmons at Prairie View A&M University in Texas, Kim Petersen at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Julia Bear at Stony Brook University in New York, and Christian Spears Brown at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Dr. Benbow, dean of the Vanderbilt University's Peabody College, and her colleague David Lubinksi have received national recognition for their research on the long-term developmental trajectories of intellectually precocious children.
The appointments are Tiffany Hinton at Hollins University in Virginia, LaVon Gray at Livingstone College in North Carolina, Morgan Dudley at Mississippi State University-Meridian, Tarryn Harris at the University of Arkansas' Clinton School Impact Center, and Vicki Sell at the University of Idaho.
Damaris Serrano, professor of Spanish at Wright State University in Ohio, was recently honored by her native country of Panama for her excellence in literary criticism.
The women appointed to endowed positions in academia are Karen Frank at the University at Buffalo, George Washington University's Leandra Godoy at Children's National Hospital, and Beth Johnson at Pennsylvania State University.
According to the research team, their findings suggest for every 50 papers published by a woman, she will have spent on average 350-750 days longer than her male peers waiting for editorial decisions and/or revising her manuscripts
In a survey of some 3,000 Canadians and Americans, the authors found women participants were more likely to be generally "risk-averse" than men, and 11 percent more likely to say AI's risks outweigh its benefits.
Dr. Rutkow, professor of health policy, has been tapped to serve as interim provost at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Currently serving as executive vice provost, Dr. Rutkow is an expert on public health law and founder of the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
