Three Women Appointed to Endowed Professorships at Major Universities

Anne C. Gilbert is the John C. Malone Professor of Mathematics at Yale University. She has a dual appointment in the department of statistics & data science. Dr. Gilbert worked for seven years at AT&T Labs, and then spent 16 years on the faculty of the University of Michigan.

Dr. Gilbert is a graduate of the University of Chicago, where she majored in mathematics. She holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Princeton University in New Jersey.

Martha I. Pallante, professor of early American history and chair of the history department, has been named as the inaugural holder of the Charles Darling Endowed Faculty Chair in American Social History at Youngstown State University in Ohio. She is the co-author of several books including Italian Americans of the Greater Mahoning Valley (Arcadia Publishing, 2015).

Dr. Pallante is a graduate of Youngstown State University. She holds a master’s degree from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, and a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Alina Campan is the inaugural holder of the STRAWS Endowed Professorship of Computer Science at Northern Kentucky University. This is the first time that an endowed faculty position has been awarded to a woman in the university’s College of Informatics. Dr. Campan joined the faculty at Northern Kentucky University in 2008.

Professor Campan holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a Ph.D., all in computer science, from Babes-Bolyai University in Romania.

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