Toniette Haynes Robinson has been named dean of educational resources at North Lake College within the Dallas County Community College District. She has spent the last 10 years at Austin Community College in student life administration.
Dr. Robinson holds a bachelor’s degree in communication studies, a bachelor’s degree in ethnic studies, and a Ph.D. in educational leadership and policy from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a master’s degree in college student development from St. Edwards University in Austin.
Elizabeth Merwin has been appointed dean of the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington. She was executive vice dean and the Ann Henshaw Gardiner Professor of Nursing at the Duke University School of Nursing. She also served as a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Duke University School of Medicine.
Dr. Merwin holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing from Radford University in Virginia and a master’s degree in nursing and a Ph.D. in health services organization and research both from Virginia Commonwealth University.
The three women named to provost positions are Nancy Marchand-Martella at the University of Northern Colorado, Lise Youngblade at Colorado State University, and Randi Storch at Western Oregon University.
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.