Vasanta Chaganti has been named an assistant professor of computer science. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Dr. Chaganti holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and a Ph.D. in applied signal processing and body area networks from Australian National University.
Karen Chan has been named an assistant professor of biology. She was an assistant professor at the University of Washington. Dr. Chan holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental life science from the University of Hong Kong, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. both in oceanography from the University of Washington.
Kathryn Riley has named an assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry. She has been teaching at Swarthmore since 2016. Dr. Riley holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, mathematics, and education from Swarthmore College and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Wake Forest University.
Hillary Smith has been named an assistant professor of physics and astronomy. She was a visiting scientist at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization. Before that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Smith holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from CalTech.
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.