Jennie Bradbury has been promoted to associate professor with tenure at Bryn Mawr College, a women’s liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. A faculty member since 2018, she currently serves as co-chair of the department of classical and Near Eastern archaeology and director of graduate studies.
Dr. Bradbury holds a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a Ph.D. in archaeology from Durham University in England.
Siobahn Day Grady has been named the inaugural director of the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Equity Research at North Carolina Central University. A faculty member since 2019, she currently teaches as an assistant professor of information science and systems. She holds several other positions with the university, including co-director of the Center for Data Equity and director of the information science program.
Dr. Grady is the first woman to have earned a Ph.D. in computer science from North Carolina A&T State University. She also holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, a master’s degree in information science from North Carolina Central University, and a second master’s degree in computer science from North Carolina A&T State University.
Amber Wutich has been named an Arizona State University Regents Professor, the university’s highest faculty honor. She has been a faculty member with the university’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change for nearly two decades. She also serves as director of ASU’s Center for Global Health, as well as the Global Ethnohydrology Study, an international project for the study of water knowledge and management.
Dr. Wutich is an honors graduate of the University of Florida, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in anthropology and Chinese language and literature and her Ph.D. in cultural anthropology.
Danielle Cover has been appointed associate dean of academic support for the College of Law at the University of Wyoming. She came to the university in 2014 to serve as director of the Civil Legal Services Clinic. Her scholarship centers on methods to expand legal pedagogy and learning theory.
Professor Cover holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland and a juris doctorate from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Pamlea Brady has been promoted to associate professor in the division of natural sciences and mathematics at Talladega College in Alabama. She joined the faculty at the college in 2019. Her current research focuses on investigating the structure and function of novel coronavirus macrodomains.
Dr. Brady earned a bachelor’s in chemistry from Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Louisiana State 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.