With a $1 million gift for an endowment, Women’s Health Research at Yale University has established the Wendy U. and Thomas C. Naratil Pioneer Award. The award program will provide seed money for research projects on women’s health issues.
The awards will be targeted to scholars whose research is highly inventive or are close to a major breakthrough in advancing women’s health. Carolyn M. Mazure, professor of psychiatry and director of Women’s Health Research at Yale, stated, “The New Wendy U. and Thomas C. Naratil Pioneer Award dramatically increases the reach and productivity of our Pilot Project Program and ensures, in perpetuity, that we can develop vital research in women’s health and gender differences.”
Dr. Mazure is a graduate of the State University of New York and holds a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University.
Dr. Soufleris, a three-time alumna of the State University of New York System, has more than 35 years of higher education experience spanning student affairs, enrollment management, retention, and student success initiatives.
Most recently, Dr. Van Vlerah served as vice president for student success and institutional strategy at Manchester University in Indiana. She is slated to become the fifteenth president of Notre Dame of Maryland University on July 6.
Dr. Egan comes to her new role as president of Bennington College from Connecticut College, where she has been serving as the Fuller-Maathai Professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Intersectionality Studies, dean of the faculty, and chief academic officer.
Dr. Pfluger has spent the past year as Bakersfield College's interim president. She previously served as vice chancellor of educational services and student success at the Kern Community College District.
Dr. Geneco comes to her new role from Tufts University in Massachusetts, where she has served as provost for the past four years. She is slated become the University at Buffalo's first woman president on August 10.