A Trio of Women Scholars in New Teaching Roles

Beth B. Phillips was appointed as the inaugural Rite Aid Professor in Community Pharmacy in the College of Pharmacy of the University of Georgia. Dr. Phillips joined the faculty at the university in 2007 and was serving as a clinical professor of pharmacy.

Dr. Phillips holds a doctor of pharmacy degree from the University of Kansas.

Karyn Rogers has been appointed assistant professor in the department of earth and environmental sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. Previously, she was with the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Rogers is a graduate of Harvard University. She holds a master’s degree in geological and environmental sciences from Stanford University and a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. in earth and planetary sciences from Washington University.

Sheri Wilner is spending the spring semester as the Fred Coe Playwright-in-Residence in the department of theatre at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She will teach an undergraduate course in playwriting and will work with students to create an original play that will be staged in April.

Wilner recently completed a visiting assistant professorship in the dramatic writing program at Florida State University. She holds a master of fine arts degree in playwriting from Columbia University.