The board of trustees of the Vermont State Colleges has appointed Patricia Moulton to serve a one-year term as president of Vermont Technical College in Randolph Center. The college enrolls about 1,500 students in associate and bachelor’s degree programs. Women make up 46 percent of the student body.
Moulton has been serving as secretary for the Agency of Commerce and Community Development for the state of Vermont. She is the former commissioner for economic development and commissioner of the Department of Labor for the state.
Moulton is a 1981 graduate of the University of Vermont.
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.