Ebonya Washington has been named the Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor of Economics at Yale University. She was the university’s Henry Kohn Associate Professor of Economics.
Dr. Washington holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Catherine Kling has been named a Tisch University Professor at Cornell University. She joined the faculty in July as a professor of environmental, energy, and resource economics and as the director at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.
Dr. Kling holds a bachelor’s degree in business and economics from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland.
Vilma Navarro-Daniels has been named the Marianna Merritt and Donald S. Matteson Distinguished Professor in Foreign Languages and Cultures at Washington State University. She has been a faculty member at the university since 2003.
Dr. Navarro-Daniels holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from the Pontifical Catholic University of ValparaÃÂso in Chile, a master’s degree in social science from Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. both in Spanish from the University of Connecticut.
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.