Vesla Weaver has been named a Gilman Scholar at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She has been a Bloomberg Distinguished Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins since 2017.
Dr. Weaver holds a Ph.D. in government and social policy from Harvard University.
Brooke Vick, who had served as a professor of social psychology at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, is the new associate provost for faculty and diversity initiatives at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Vick is a graduate of Colorado College, where she majored in psychology. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. In social psychology from the University of California, Santa’s Barbara.
Anne F. Harris, a professor of art history at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, for the past 21 years, has been named vice president for academic affairs and dean at Grinnell College in Iowa. She will begin her new role on July 1.
Dr. Harris joined the faculty at DePauw University in 1999. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in art history from the University of Chicago.
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.