Four Women Selected for Faculty Appointments at Universities
Posted on Jan 30, 2025 | Comments 0
Wanda Montalvo has been appointed executive director of the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Pennsylvania. She comes to Penn Nursing from the National Association of Community Health Care Services, where she was the director of evidence-based and integration strategies.
Dr. Montalvo is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Nursing.
Sarah Cravens has joined the University of Arkansas School of Law faculty as a professor of law and associate dean of research and faculty development. Most recently, she served as a visiting professor of law and a fellow in the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics at the Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia. Earlier, she taught in the law schools at the University of Tulsa and the University of Akron.
Professor Cravens holds a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University, a master’s degree from Cambridge University in England, and a juris doctorate from Washington and Lee University.
Breanna Decker has joined the faculty in the College of Agriculture at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, as a clinical assistant professor in the department of entomology. Her research focuses on the biodiversity, baseline distributions, and range shifts of hymenoptera, particularly bees and wasps.
Dr. Decker holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Lawrence University in Wisconsin, a master’s degree in entomology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a Ph.D. in biology from Utah State University.
Tisha Greene has been promoted to associate dean of undergraduate education and teacher preparation in the Cato College of Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. A clinical associate professor in educational leadership, she most recently served as assistant dean for school and community partnerships.
Dr. Green received her bachelor’s degree in English and master’s degree in English education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She holds a doctorate in educational leadership from Wingate University in North Carolina.
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