Lynn Sargeant has been named dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at South Dakota State University. She was associate dean for student relations in the College of Humanities and Social Science at California State University, Fullerton.
Dr. Sargeant holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Minnesota, a bachelor’s degree in Russian area studies from the University of Washington, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. both in history from Indiana University.
Regina Carlow has been named interim dean of the College of Fine Arts at the University of New Mexico, effective January 1, 2019. She currently serves as the associate dean for student affairs in the College of Fine Arts and professor in the department of music at the university. She has been a faculty member at the University of New Mexico since 2004.
Dr. Carlow holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey, a master of music degree from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from the University of Maryland.
Jan Hirsch has been named director and founding dean of the new School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, Irvine, effective January 2019. She is currently the first chair of the Division of Clinical Pharmacy in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego.
Dr. Hirsch holds a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in pharmacy administration from the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy.
Dana Bradley has named dean of the Erickson School for Aging Services at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She was the director of the Center for Gerontology at Western Kentucky University.
Dr. Bradley holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Rochester in New York and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in applied history and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
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.