Lucie Schmidt was appointed the John J. Gibson Professor of Economics at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is an empirical microeconomist working in the fields of labor and health economics and the economics of the family. She joined the faculty in 2002 and has served two terms as chair of the college’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
Professor Schmidt is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she majored in government. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Mary-Louise Timmermans was named the Damon Wells Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Her research focuses on the dynamics and variability of the Arctic Ocean, sea ice and climate. Dr. Timmermans joined the Yale faculty in 2009. Earlier, she served on the faculty at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
Professor Timmermans holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in England.
Amy Laurel Fluker has been named the Robert W. Reeder I Memorial Endowed Professor of History at Youngstown State University in Ohio. Dr. Fluker’s research focuses on the intersection between regional identity and Civil War commemoration in the American West. She joined the faculty at Youngstown State in 2018
Dr. Fluker holds a bachelor’s degree in American history from Westminster College in Missouri and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Mississippi.
Jennifer Gaither, a lawyer by training, has been a Sullivan University faculty member for the past 25 years. She most recently served as the university's associate provost.
Dr. Crowley has served as provost at Ohio Wesleyan University since 2020. She is slated to become the nineteenth president of Kalamazoo College on July 1.
The three women named to provost positions are Nancy Marchand-Martella at the University of Northern Colorado, Lise Youngblade at Colorado State University, and Randi Storch at Western Oregon University.
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 selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.