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New Dean Positions for Three Women Scholars

Jennifer Ross has been selected to serve as interim dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University in New York. She currently serves as a professor of physics, member of the BioInspired Institute, and associate dean for creativity, scholarship, and research in the College of Arts and Sciences. As a biophysicist, she studies the organization of the microtubule cytoskeleton and enzymes using high-resolution single-molecule imaging techniques.

Dr. Ross earned her bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from Wellesley College, a selective women’s liberal arts institution in Massachusetts. She holds a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Carrie Zebrowsky Cooper has been named dean of university libraries at Florida State University. She comes to her new role from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where she has served in the same capacity since 2011. Earlier in her career, she was dean of libraries at Eastern Kentucky University.

Dr. Cooper is an alumna of Florida State, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in elementary education. She holds a master of library and information science degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and a doctorate in educational planning from the College of William & Mary.

Gwendolyn M. Lloyd has been appointed interim dean of the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University. She has been serving as the college’s senior associate dean of faculty affairs. A Penn State faculty member since 2009, she currently holds the Henry J. Hermanowicz Professorship in Education and is a professor of mathematics education in the department of curriculum and instruction. Earlier in her tenure, she served as director of graduate studies for her department and director of the elementary and early childhood education teacher preparation program.

Dr. Lloyd received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Bryn Mawr College, a highly-rated women’s liberal arts educational institution in Pennsylvania. She earned her master’s degree in mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara and her doctorate in educational studies with an emphasis in mathematics education from the University of Michigan.

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