Jane Shelby, was named to the Louis L. Kralick Professorship on the Alaska campus of the Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, Idaho (WWAMI) School of Medical Education. Dr. Shelby joined the faculty at the University of Alaska at Anchorage in 2011.
Professor Shelby holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees, all from the University of Utah.
Brooke O’Harra is a new assistant professor of theater at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She is a former resident artist at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Company in New York City. She has taught at Mount Holyoke College and New York University.
O’Harra is a graduate of Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. She holds a master of fine arts degree in theater from Tulane University in New Orleans.
Jessica Wagenseil is a new associate professor of mechanical engineering and materials science at Washington University in St. Louis. She was on the biomedical engineering faculty at Saint Louis University for the past four years.
A graduate of the University of California at San Diego, Dr. Wagenseil earned her doctoral degree at Washington University and did postdoctoral research in cell biology and physiology at the Washington University School of Medicine.
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.