Betina C. Wilkinson, an assistant professor of political science at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, received the Best Book Award for Inter-Race Relations from the American Political Science Association. Dr. Wilkinson was honored for her book Partner or Rivals? Power and Latino, Black and White Relations in the 21st Century (University of Virginia Press, 2015).
Dr. Wilkinson is a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She came to the United States at the age of 6. She joined the faculty at Wake Forest University in 2010.
Dr. Wilkinson is a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
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.