Barbara Rodriguez has been selected to serve as interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Mexico. Her appointment begins on July 3.
Since 2018, Dr. Rodriguez has been the university’s senior vice provost. In this role, she oversees all faculty personnel matters. A faculty member since 1999, she previously served as chair of the department of speech and hearing sciences and director of the UNM Speech Language and Hearing Clinic. Before her career in academia, she was a bilingual clinician in K-12 public schools throughout New Mexico.
Dr. Rodriguez is an alumna of the University of New Mexico, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in communicative disorders and her master’s degree in speech-language pathology. She holds a Ph.D. in speech-language pathology from the University of Washington.
Lauren Lee McIntyre has been named provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Michigan State University, effective August 4. She will also hold a faculty appointment as the MSU Research Foundation Professor in the department of counseling, educational psychology, and special education.
Currently, Dr. McIntyre is dean of the College of Education and the Castle-McIntosh-Knight Professor in school psychology at the University of Oregon. Her scholarship focuses on children’s mental and behavioral health, special education, and promoting child and family-welling being among vulnerable and underserved populations.
Dr. McIntyre is a graduate of La Sierra University in California, where she majored in developmental psychology. She holds a master’s degree in special education and a doctorate in school psychology from the University of California, Riverside.
Beth A. Winkelstein has been appointed provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Northeastern University in Boston. She will begin her new role on August 22.
Dr. Winkelstein comes to Northeastern from the University of Pennsylvania, where she has served as deputy provost and the Eduardo D. Glandt President’s Distinguished Professor of Bioengineering and Neurosurgery. She has been with the Ivy League institution for over 20 years, serving in several senior leadership roles throughout her tenure. In her research, she focuses on how injuries to the spine and joints cause pain.
A Penn alumna, Dr. Winkelstein earned her doctorate in bioengineering from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.
Vojislava “Voki” Pophristic has been promoted to provost and executive vice chancellor for academic affairs at Rowan University in Glassboro, New Jersey. Her promotion is effective July 1.
For the past four years, Dr. Pophristic has been dean of Rowan’s College of Science & Mathematics. Earlier, she was a chemistry professor and interim dean of the Misher College of Arts and Sciences at the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Through leveraging computational chemistry methods, she studies how the laws of physics govern chemical processes and structures.
Dr. Pophristic received her bachelor’s degree in physical chemistry from the University of Belgrade in Serbia and her doctorate in chemistry from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey.