Dr. Farmer, a longtime professor of business, served as acting president of Augusta College in Georgia for two years and as president of what is now Castleton University in Vermont for six years.
Born in 1820 in Florence, Italy, Florence Nightingale is considered the founder of modern nursing and health informatics. A collection of materials chronicling her life and service are now housed at Texas Woman's University Libraries.
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions in academia. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
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 new deans are Lynn O'Brien Hallstein at Boston University, Elizabeth Gordon at Fitchburg State University, Megan Dallianis at Midwestern University, Rosemarie Allen at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Lara Galloway at Whitworth University, Jules Bruck at the University of Georgia, Tala Awada at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Aimee Edmondson at Ohio University.
The International Congress of Infant Studies has honored Purdue University's A.J. Schwichtenberg for her research on how sleep and biosocial processes are developmentally consequential for children and families
The appointments are Catherine Edmonds at North Carolina A&T State University, Brandy Barker at Eastern Michigan University, Sarah Bartlett at Georgia State University, LeNá Powe McDonald at the University of Alabama, and Nicole Harris at Syracuse University in New York.
Dr. Scherban taught chemistry in Portland Community College for 10 years. Since her retirement in 2019, she has organized an American Chemical Society symposium focused on women in science.
The women selected for endowed faculty positions are Susan Piedmont-Palladino at Virginia Tech, Jean Rhodes at the University of Massachusetts Boston, and Deborah Delaney at the University of Delaware.
The maternal mortality rate in the United States surpasses rates of all high-income countries in Europe and Asia; however, recent increases in maternal mortality do not apply uniformly, according to a new study led by the University of Michigan's Arline Geronimus.
Among Americans in their 30s, women spend nearly two hours more of their daily time on housework and caregiving than similarly aged men. Across all age groups, men spend a larger portion of their day working, watching television, relaxing, and exercising.
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.
“By conducting and publishing peer-reviewed studies on women's unique hydration and nutrition needs across life stages, we're not just advancing the science; we're establishing a new standard,” said Kimberly Stein, senior principal scientist at the Gatorade Sports Science Institute.
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 seven women promoted to full professor are Alicia Cruz-Uribe in petrology and mineralogy, Melissa Maginnis in microbiology, Caroline Noblet in economics, Kelley Strout in nursing, Catharine Biddle in educational leadership, Caitlin Howell in bioengineering, and Lisa Kerr in fisheries science.
