Leslie Pick has been appointed associate dean for graduate education in the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Natural Sciences at the University of Maryland. She is a professor in the university’s department of entomology and previously served as its chair for over a decade. Earlier in her tenure with the university, she was director of the molecular and cell biology graduate program.
Dr. Pick received her bachelor’s degree in psychology and biology from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and her Ph.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York
Angélique Bordey, the Rothberg Professor of Neurosurgery at Yale University, has been named senior vice president of neuroscience at Cassava Sciences, Inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing novel treatments for central nervous system disorders. She will retain her position at Yale School of Medicine, where she is vice chair for research in the department of neurosurgery.
Dr. Bordey received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France.
Laura Rotunno has been named associate dean of academic affairs for the Schreyer Honors College at Pennsylvania State University. Since 2003, she has served as a professor of English at Penn State Altoona. She also serves as the Schreyer Honors College coordinator for the Altoona campus. Her next book, The New Woman in Fact and Fiction, 1880-1914, is forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan.
Dr. Rotunno is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Kearney, where she double-majored in English and German. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri.
Karen Smilowitz has been appointed associate provost for undergraduate education at Northwestern University in Illinois. A Northwestern faculty member since 2001, she is the James N. and Margie M. Krebs Professor in Industrial Engineering and Management Science in the McCormick School of Engineering and a professor of operations in the Kellogg School of Management.
Dr. Smilowitz received her bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and operations research from Princeton University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in civil and environmental engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.