Inez Tuck was named dean of the School of Nursing at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. Since 1997 she has been a professor and administrator at the School of Nursing at Virginia Commonwealth University. Her appointment as dean is effective on July 1.
Dr. Tuck is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University. She holds a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Florida, an MBA from the University of Tennessee, and a Ph.D. in child development and family relations from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Cathy E. Minehan was appointed dean of the Simmons College School of Management in Boston. She will begin her new position on August 1. She has been serving as chair of the Massachusetts Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors. Previously, she was president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
Minehan is a graduate of the University of Rochester and holds an MBA from New York 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.