Three Women in New Faculty Roles

Karen Kavanaugh was appointed the Elizabeth Schotanus Professor of Pediatric Nursing at Wayne State University in Detroit. She joined the faculty at the Wayne State College of Nursing in 2012. She had been a faculty scholar at Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Kavanaugh hold a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned a master’s degree at Loyola University of Chicago.

Mary Deane Sorcinelli was named the inaugural Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Weissman Center for Leadership at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. She has been serving as associate provost and professor of educational policy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Professor Sorcinelli holds a master’s degree in English from Mount Holyoke. She earned an educational doctorate at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Ida Bieler was named musician/instructor at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. She has been teaching at the Robert Schuman University for Music and Media in Düsseldorf, Germany.

A violinist, trained at Julliard, Bieler served as concertmaster for the Symphony and Opera Orchestra of Cologne from 1983 to 1988.