The board of regents of the University of Wisconsin system has approved the appointment of Renee Wachter as the 12th chancellor of the University of Wisconsin Superior. Dr. Wachter will take office on July 1. Currently, she is dean of the School of Business at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. Prior to coming to Truman State in 2006, she was associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Business at Montana State University.
Dr. Wachter is a graduate of the University of Kansas and holds a Ph.D. in business from Indiana University.
Although it was initially founded as school for women, the University of Montevallo has never had a woman president. Now the university has reached a historic milestone and selected selected Michelle R. Johnston to serve as its next president.
The women who are taking on new leadership roles with professional academic organizations are Yasmeen Shorish of James Madison University in Virginia, Elena Carbone of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shelley Lusetti of New Mexico State University, Oona Hathaway of Yale Law School, and Keisha Blain of Brown University.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is a national program run by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. Dr. Yelick, a computer scientist and longtime UC Berkeley faculty member, will become the laboratory's next director on July 1.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.