Five Women Chosen for Dean Positions at Major Universities

Gail Dodge was appointed dean of the College of Sciences at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She has been a member of the physics department faculty at the university since 1995. She will become dean on May 25.

Dr. Dodge is a graduate of Princeton University in New Jersey, where she majored in physics. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in physics from Stanford University.

Sarah J. Ewing was named interim dean of the Morosky College of Health Professions and Sciences at Gannon University in Erie, Pennsylvania. She will serve as interim dean through the 2017-18 academic year.

Dr. Ewing joined the faculty as an assistant professor of biology in 2009. She was promoted to full professor in 2013. Dr. Ewing is a graduate of the Erie campus of Pennsylvania State University. She earned a Ph.D. in comparative biomedical sciences and cell biology from North Carolina State University in Raleigh.

Willow Bay was appointed dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She will be the first woman to hold the post. She has been serving as director of the Annenberg School of Journalism. Earlier, Bay has been a senior editor of the Huffington Post and a special correspondent for Bloomberg TV.

Bay is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Elizabeth Chilton has been selected as the next dean of the Harpur College of Arts and Sciences at Binghamton University, a campus of the State University of New York System. She has been serving as a professor of anthropology and associate vice chancellor for research and engagement at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts in 2001. Earlier, Dr. Chilton taught at Harvard University.

Dr. Chilton is a graduate of the University at Albany. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts.

Megan Carpenter will be the next dean of the School of Law at the University of New Hampshire, effective July 1. She is the founder and co-director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. She will be the first woman to serve as dean of the law school at the University of New Hampshire.

Professor Carpenter holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a juris doctorate from West Virginia University. She added a master’s degree in law from the National University of Galway in Ireland.