Zorica Pantic, the fourth president of Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, announced that she will step down from her post on May 31, 2019. Dr. Pantic, the first woman president of the institution has served as president since 2005.
Before becoming President of the Wentworth Institute of Technology, Dr. Pantic was the founding dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Texas at San Antonio. A native of Serbia, Dr. Pantic holds bachelor’s, master’s. and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Nis in Serbia.
Jean Schook will retire from her post as associate vice chancellor for finance and treasurer at the University of Arkansas on March 31. She has served in these roles since 2007. Earlier, she was an auditor for the Division of Legislative Audit of the state of Arkansas.
Schook has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Missouri Southern State University and an MBA from the University of Arkansas.
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.