Megan A. Cooper was promoted to associate professor of pediatrics in the School of Medicine. In addition to teaching, she also serves as the director of the Clinical Immunology program and of the Jeffrey Modell Diagnostic and Research Center for Primary Immunodeficiencies at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Cooper holds a bachelor’s degree from the College of Wooster in Ohio and a medical doctorate and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University.
Amanda L. Lewis was promoted to associate professor of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine. She has been a university faculty member since 2009. She also teaches in the department of obstetrics and gynecology.
Dr. Lewis holds a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences with a minor in biotechnology from California State Polytechnic University and a Ph.D. in biological sciences from the University of California, San Diego.
Cynthia E. Rogers was promoted to associate professor of psychiatry at the School of Medicine. Her clinical and research interests focus on psychiatric development and illnesses in children.
Dr. Rogers holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Harvard University and a medical doctorate from Washington University.
Christina L. Stallings was promoted to associate professor of molecular microbiology at the School of Medicine. She has been a faculty member at the university since 2010.
Dr. Stallings holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from what is now the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and a Ph.D. in cellular, molecular, and biophysical studies from Columbia University in New York City.
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.