Bonnie R. Rush has been named dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University. She currently serves as the Hodes Family Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Kansas, where she has taught for more than three decades. Throughout her long tenure as a professor of equine internal medicine, she has had stints as department head and hospital director. Her scholarship centers on respiratory diseases in horses, as well as clinical teaching methods.
Dr. Rush earned her master’s degree in veterinary clinical sciences and her doctor of veterinary medicine degree from Ohio State University.
Courtney Anderson has been promoted from interim dean to permanent dean of the College of Law at Georgia State University. She has been a faculty member with the university for over a decade, holding appointments in the College of Law, the School of Public Health, and the Urban Studies Institute. Before her interim appointment, she was associate dean for academic affairs. A scholar of housing, public health, and social equity, she studies how legal frameworks impact marginalized communities.
Professor Anderson is a summa cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, where she majored in business administration. She holds a master of laws degree in clinical advocacy from Georgetown University Law Center and a juris doctorate from Harvard Law School.
Kirsten Martin has been named the H. John Heinz III Dean of the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She comes to her new role from the University of Notre Dame, where she is the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Technology Ethics. From 2021 to 2023, she was director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center. In her scholarly work, she examines the ethical implications of emerging technologies and the role of business in ensuring responsible innovation.
Dr. Martin is a graduate of the University of Michigan, where she majored in industrial and operations engineering. She holds an MBA and a Ph.D. from the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia.
Jessica Brooks has been been selected to serve as interim dean of the College of Natural and Health Sciences at Virginia State University. A faculty member for nearly eight years, she most recently served as the college’s associate dean. Earlier in her tenure, she served as associate director of clinical training for the doctoral program in clinical psychology and as coordinator of the master’s degree program in the same discipline. As a psychologist, her research centers on cognitive and social-emotional development.
Dr. Brooks holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina and a master’s degree in clinical psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University. She earned a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Virginia State University.
Jilian Trabulsi has been appointed interim dean of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Delaware. She currently serves as chair of the university’s department of health behavior and nutrition sciences. Her tenure with the university began in 2010, following a decade of service as a clinical dietitian. As a scholar, she studies how diet influences energy balance, growth, nutrition, gut microbiota, and gene expression, as well as how these factors affect healthy people, clinical populations, and those with chronic diseases.
Dr. Trabulsi received her bachelor’s degree in dietetics from the University of Delaware and her doctorate in nutritional sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.