Ruth M. Kleinpell has been named to the Independence Foundation Chair in Nursing Education. She also serves as associate dean for clinical scholarship and as a professor in the School of Nursing.
Dr. Kleinpell holds a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. all from the University of Illinois.
Lynne W. Stevenson has been named to the Lisa M. Jacobson Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine. She also serves as a professor of medicine and program director of the Advanced Heart Failure Fellowship Program.
Dr. Stevenson holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Princeton University and a medical doctorate from Stanford University.
Holly Tucker has been named to the Mellon Foundation Chair in the Humanities. She also serves as a professor of French.
Dr. Tucker holds a bachelor’s degree in French and political science from Indiana University, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. both from the department of French and Italian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Lisa R. Young has been named to the Janie Robinson and John Moore Lee Chair in Pediatrics. She also serves as an associate professor of pediatrics, medicine, and cell biology.
Dr. Young holds a doctorate from the Duke University School of Medicine.
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.