Faculty News: Eight Women in New Teaching Roles

BoulwareEbony-199x300L. Ebony Boulware was appointed chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at Duke University. She has been serving as an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and as an associate professor of epidemiology and health behavior at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins. She has been on the faculty at Johns Hopkins since 2002.

Dr. Boulware is a graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she majored in English. She earned her medical degree at Duke University and holds a master of public health degree from Johns Hopkins University.

pamelaweaverPamela A. Weaver was named professor emerita of hospitality and tourism management at the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Professor Weaver has served on the Virginia Tech faculty since 1989.

Dr. Weaver is a graduate of the University at Albany, part of the State University of New York system. She holds a master’s degree from the University of South Florida in Tampa and a doctorate from Michigan State University.

kembaclappKemba Clapp is a new assistant professor of radiology in the department of small animal clinical sciences at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. She recently completed a diagnostic imaging residency at the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Dr. Clapp is a graduate of Cornell University and the School of Veterinary Medicine at Tuskegee University in Alabama.

Adams_KateKate Adams, a professor in the University Libraries at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln has announced that she is retiring and will become a professor emerita. Professor Adams was hired at the university in 1979 as the technical services librarian.

Professor Adams holds a bachelor’s degree and a master of library science degree from the University of Wisconsin. She earned a master of public administration degree from the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

sandra_bastin_croppedSandra Bastin was appointed chair of the department of dietetics and human nutrition at the University of Kentucky. Since 1996 she has been an extension food and nutrition specialist in the university’s College of Agriculture, Food, and Environment.

Dr. Bastin holds a bachelor’s degree in dietetics, a master’s degree in nutritional sciences, and a Ph.D. in food science, all from the University of Kentucky.

Hazard,-Hannah.jpgHannah W. Hazard was named chief of the division of surgical oncology at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. She has been a member of the department for the past six years.

Dr. Hazard is a graduate of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. She earned her medical degree at West Virginia University.

DeCastroLauraLaura M. DeCastro was named co-director of adult sickle cell programs at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She will serve as director of benign hematology for the university’s Institute for Transfusion Medicine and director of clinical translational research for the Sickle Cell Disease Research Center of Excellence. She was an associate professor of hematology at Duke University.

Dr. DeCastro earned her medical degree at the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic.

PaduaMary G. Padua was appointed chair of the landscape architecture department at Clemson University in South Carolina. She was an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Florida.

Professor Padua is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. She holds a master’s degree from the University of California at Los Angeles, and a Ph.D. in landscape architecture from the University of Edinburgh.

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