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

Michelle Chang was named the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University in New Jersey, effective January 1. She has been serving as a professor of chemistry and a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has taught since 2007.

The holder of six patents, Dr. Chang is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego. She holds a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hannah I. Lipman, vice president of bioethics at Hackensack Meridian Health and a professor in the department of internal Medicine at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine in New Jersey, was named to the Linda Farber Post Chair in Bioethics at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. Earlier in har career, Dr. Lipman was associate director of the Center for Bioethics at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York, and director of bioethics education at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Dr. Lipman is a graduate of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, where she majored in economics. She earned her medical degree at the Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons.

Gretchen Batcheller was appointed the Blanche E. Seaver Professor of Fine Arts at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. Batcheller, a professor of studio art joined the Seaver College faculty in 2012.

Professor Batcheller received a bachelor of fine arts degree in painting and a bachelor’s degree in German language and literature from the University of Washington. She holds a master of fine arts degree in painting from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia.

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