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A Trio of Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships

Khim Kelly was named the KPMG Professor of Accounting in the Kenneth G. Dixon School of Accounting in the College of Business of the University of Central Florida. She joined the university’s faculty in 2016 after teaching at the University of Waterloo in Canada and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Her research focuses on the design of performance measurement, evaluation, and compensation practices in organizations.

Dr. Kelly earned a Ph.D. at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Susana Marcos, an internationally recognized expert in the optics of the eye and the interactions of light with the retina, will become the David R. Williams Director of the Center for Visual Science at the University of Rochester. She will also be the inaugural holder of the Nicholas George Professorship at the university’s Institute of Optics. Dr. Marcos has been serving as a professor at the Instituto de Óptica in Madrid, Spain.

Profssor Marcos holds a bachelor’s degree in physics, a master’s degree in applied physics, and a Ph.D. in visual optics, all from the University of Salamanca in Spain.

Angela Onwuachi-Willig is the first Ryan Roth Gallo and Ernest J. Gallo Professor at the Boston University School of Law. Professor Onwuachi-Willig, a scholar in critical race theory and an expert in racial and gender inequality, also serves as dean of the law school.

Professor Onwuachi-Willig is a graduate of Grinnell College in Iowa and the University of Michigan Law School.

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