The University of Mount Union in Alliance, Ohio, has announced that there are 11 new faculty members on campus this fall. Three women were hired to the full-time faculty.
Lynn Dudash has joined the School of Engineering as an assistant professor specializing in biomedical engineering. She is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she majored in biomedical engineering. Dr. Dudash earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.
Maureen Morton is a new assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Mount Union. She earned a bachelor’s degree in Russian language and literature from the University of Kansas and aa Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Michigan State University.
Lisa Parnell was hired as an assistant professor of art. She is a graduate of Bournemouth University in Poole, England, and earned a master of fine arts degree in visual communication from Kent State University in Ohio.
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.