The new assistant professors at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, are Claire Augusta Bergey in cognitive science, Whitney Fields in history, Akhila Kovvuri in economics, and Maya Marie Van Nuys in political science.
Geared toward registered nurses holding a bachelor of science in nursing degree, Nazareth's new hybrid graduate program combines online coursework with in-person sessions to train nurses to diagnose, treat, and educate patients through a holistic approach to women's health.
At the time of her passing, Dr. Buehler had been a faculty member with the School of Education at Saint Louis University in Missouri for 15 years. Her scholarly interests centered on young adult literature.
The four women who have joined the tenure-track faculty at Swarthmore College in suburban Philadelphia are Cathy Chen in psychology, Haemin Jee in political science, Sierra Palumbos in biology, and Qiaomei Tang in Chinese.
The University of Arizona has settled a lawsuit that alleges women working in enrollment services at the University of Arizona Global Campus were paid $14,425 less, on average, than male employees performing the same work.
Hannah Kimmel and Nicole Ramo are assistant professors of biology and biomedical engineering and Amanda Ross is an assistant professor of computer science and software engineering.
Forbes Isais was the first woman to serve as dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico, where she taught for 14 years. She was also the first Hispanic president of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.
Gabriella Carini is director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source and Kira Reed is taking on a special assignment in community impact assessment at Syracuse University. Angel Jones and Alicia B. Batson have joined the faculties of the University of Washington Tacoma and Meharry Medical College, respectively.
The National Academy of Medicine has honored Kristine Yaffe, endowed professor in psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, for her pioneering research on cognitive aging and dementia prevention.
Lisa Prosser is the inaugural dean of the forthcoming School of Public Health at Wayne State University in Detroit. Carolyn Keller was promoted to dean of the College of Business, Industry, Life Science, and Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Cynthia Gray was promoted to dean of nursing and allied health sciences at Florence-Darlington Technical College in South Carolina.
Dr. Xu, the Li Ka Shing Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, has been honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for inventing histotripsy, an ultrasound-based treatment that destroys tumors without surgery and with few side effects.
The appointments are Carla Hadden at the University of Georgia, Lauren Collier at Mount Holyoke College, Kiona Sinks at Metropolitan Community College, Catherine Parker Edmonson at the University of Southern Mississippi, Roxie Xie at the University of Arkansas, Jennifer Horstman at Virginia Tech, Maya Mapp at Bronx Community College, Marissa Langford at North Carolina State University, and Ashley Schaefer at Vincennes University.
Dr. Edwards is an assistant professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She was recently honored by the American Sociological Association for her latest book, Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago.
The women who have been selected for endowed faculty appointments are Liz Lyons at the University of California, San Diego, Susannah Gibbs at Willamette University in Oregon, Carole Boyce-Davies at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Belinda McSwain Sturm at Virginia Tech.
Smith College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution for women in Northampton, Massachusetts, has 14 new tenured or tenure-track faculty on campus this fall. Ten of the new faculty members are women.
In 2025, 19,655 American women earned research doctorates, an all-time high. But there was a wide gender disparity in doctoral awards in specific disciplines. Less than one third of all doctorates in mathematics, engineering, and computer science were awarded to women.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently announced the 20 latest recipients in its fellowship program, commonly referred to as “genius grants.” Six of the awardees are American women with ties to the academic world.
