Joyce B. Hedlund was named interim president of the University of Maine at Machias. She will take office on January 5 and serve until a permanent president is selected. The Machias campus of the University of Maine is located in southeast corner of the state, near the border with New Brunswick, Canada. The campus enrolls about 900 students, all undergraduates. Women make up 70 percent of the student body.
Dr. Hedlund has served as president of Eastern Maine Community College in Bangor and Washington County Community College in Calais, Maine. She also served as director of admissions at the Kent campus of the University of Maine.
Dr. Hedlund is a graduate of the University of Maine-Kent and holds a master’s degree and an educational doctorate from the University of Maine.
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.