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.
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 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.