Deanna Kerrigan is slated to join the faculty at Rutgers University in New Jersey this fall as the Henry J. Rutgers Chair of Whole Person Health and vice dean of the School of Public Health. She most recently served as chair of the department of prevention and community health in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on how structural and psychosocial determinants impact the health and well-being of people in marginalized communities.
Dr. Kerrigan is a graduate of Emory University in Atlanta, where she studied political science and Spanish. She holds a master of public health degree from Tulane University in New Orleans and a Ph.D. in social and behavioral interventions from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Jo Hardin has been named the Reuben C. and Eleanor Winslow Memorial Mathematics Professor at Pomona College in Claremont, California. She has been a faculty member with the college since 2002. Her academic expertise centers on the statistical analysis of high-throughput genetic data, inference in machine learning, statistics and data science education, and equity and flourishing in statistics and data science.
Dr. Hardin is an alumna of Pomona College, where she majored in statistics. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California, Davis.
Anna Lemnitzer has been named the Doris Alexander Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts at West Texas A&M University. A faculty member since 2021, her visual practice is grounded in playful exploration, fluidity of meaning, and multifaceted layers of the human experience. Earlier in her career, she was director for the interdisciplinary arts major at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford.
Professor Lemnitzer received her bachelor’s degree in art education with an emphasis in sculpture from the University of Arizona and a master of fine arts degree from the University of Montana.
Aliaa Bassiouny has been named the Lawrence Term Professor of Finance at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. She first joined the university in 2019 and currently serves as the faculty advisor for the student-managed Williams Investment Society. Earlier, she spent seven years as a professor of finance at The American University in Cairo, Egypt.
Dr. Bassiouny received a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an MBA in finance from The American University in Cairo. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in management sciences from Esade Business School in Spain.
Kimryn Rathmell has been named the inaugural Jeri B. Block and Robert H. Schottenstein Distinguished Chair in Cancer and chief executive officer of the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and the Richard J. Solove Research Center. She has previously held faculty appointments at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. More recently, she was director of the National Cancer Institute.
Dr. Rathmell is a graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, where she double-majored in biology and chemistry. She earned both a medical degree and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Stanford University in California and a master’s degree in health care management from Vanderbilt University.