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New Endowed Professorships for Four Women Scholars

Gina Yosten has been named the Kummer Endowed Department Chair of Biological Sciences at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Currently, she is a professor of pharmacology and physiology in the School of Medicine at Saint Louis University in Missouri. Her research focuses on the roles of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), in particular orphan GPCRs, in metabolic diseases such as type 1 diabetes and Prader Willi Syndrome.

Dr. Yosten received her bachelor’s degree in zoology and biomedical science from the University of Oklahoma and her Ph.D. in pharmacology and physiology from Saint Louis University.

Miia Kivipelto has been appointed the Rodman Family Endowed Professor of Gerontology at the Yale School of Nursing. She will also lead the school’s Center for Aging Well and hold a secondary appointment with the geriatric medicine department at the Yale School of Medicine. Her work focuses on the prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment of cognitive impairment, dementia, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Dr. Kivipelto holds a Ph.D. in medicine and neurology from the University of Kuopio in Finland.

Molly Burchett has been named the Smyrnios Family Sales Professor in the Center for Professional Selling at the University of Wyoming College of Business. Her academic work centers on behavioral marketing strategy and sales, particularly business-to-business sales strategy, as well as techniques for business-to-government and business-to-consumer selling.

Dr. Burchett is a graduate of Transylvania University in Kentucky, where she majored in business administration. She holds a master’s degree in communication and a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.

Manya Magnus has been named the inaugural Michael and Lori Milken Professor of Public Health at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health. She currently serves as chair of the university’s department of epidemiology. She conducts research on innovation biomedical and structural interventions to prevent HIV transmission and inform treatment and cure.

Dr. Mangus holds a master of public health degree and Ph.D. in epidemiology from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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