Morgan Turpin has been selected to serve as interim dean of the College of Business at McNeese State University in Louisiana. Her tenure with McNeese State began in 2014 as a visiting lecturer. She joined the faculty full-time in 2019, and currently serves as the internship director for the College of Business. Prior to her faculty appointment, she spent over five years with the Southwest Louisiana Development Alliance.
Turpin is a two-time graduate of McNeese State University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing and management and an MBA.
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham has been appointed as the Glen de Vries Dean of the Mellon College of Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A faculty member since 2018, she currently serves the university as the founding director of the Neuroscience Institute and the George A. and Helen Dunham Cowan Professor of Auditory Neuroscience. Before joining the Carnegie Mellon faculty, she spent over two decades on the Boston University faculty.
Dr. Shinn-Cunningham is a magna cum laude graduate of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where she majored in electrical engineering. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Aviva Abramovsky has been appointed as dean of the University of Idaho College of Law. Before taking on her new deanship, she served as the William Magavern Faculty Scholar at the University of Buffalo School of Law. Earlier in her career, she taught at the Syracuse University College of Law for more than a decade.
Abramovsky received her bachelor’s degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and her juris doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.