Three Women Named Deans

Maria Pabon Lopez has been selected as the new dean of the College of Law at Loyola University in New Orleans. She will assume her new post this summer. Currently, she is a professor of law at Indiana University.

Professor Lopez is a native of Puerto Rico. She is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. She has served on the law school faculty at Indiana University since 2002.

Robin Kanarek was appointed interim dean of the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Massachusetts. Dr. Kanarek joined the Tufts University psychology department in 1977. She currently serves as the John Wade Professor in the School of Arts and Sciences.

Professor Kanarek is a graduate of Antioch College. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in psychology from Rutgers University.

Kathy E. Johnson was named dean of University College and associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She currently serves as a professor and chair of the department of psychology at the university. She will become dean on July 1.

Dr. Johnson holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She earned a Ph.D. at Emory University.