A Trio of Women Scholars Who Have Been Awarded Named Professorships

Holly Rushmeier has been named the John C. Malone Professor of Computer Science at Yale University. She has been a Yale faculty member since 2004.

Dr. Rushmeier holds a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. all in mechanical engineering from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

Usha R. Rodrigues has been named a University Professor at the University of Georgia. She holds the M.E. Kilpatrick Chair of Corporate Finance and Securities Law at the university’s School of Law.

Professor Rodrigues holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., a master’s degree from the University of Wisconsin, and a juris doctorate from the University of Virginia.

Gaelyn Garrett has been named the to the Guy M. Maness Chair in Laryngology and Voice at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She is the senior executive medical director at the Vanderbilt Voice Center and a professor of otolaryngology.

Dr. Garrett holds a medical doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.