The board of trustees of St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, has selected ReBecca Koenig Roloff as its next president. She will take office on July 1, replacing Andrea Lea who has led the university for the past 18 years. (See earlier WIAReport post.) St. Catherine University enrolls about 3,500 students in its undergraduate programs for women and more than 1,500 students in co-educational graduate programs.
For the past 11 years, Roloff has served as president and chief executive officer of the YWCA of Minneapolis. Earlier in her career, she served in executive posts at American Express Financial Advisors, Pillsbury, and Cargill. She is a former chair of the board of trustees of St. Catherine University.
Roloff is a 1976 graduate of St. Catherine University. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Dr. Weir is a senior lecturer of global affairs at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. She was recently named the inaugural executive director of the Jackson School's new Center for Peace and the Global Good, a hub for scholars and students working to address challenges in human rights and global health.
Dr. Maggioni comes to her new role with more than 15 years of teaching and leadership experience in higher education. Most recently, she was assistant provost at Massachusetts Bay Community College
Dr. Blankenbaker has served as president of the Tarrant County College Northwest campus since 2017. She recently assumed additional responsibilities as the chief academic officer for the community college's online and in-person campuses.
Most recently, Dr. Hooyman was vice president of academic affairs and provost of Northwest Missouri State University. She was the first woman to serve in that role.
Born and raised in Alaska, Dr. O'Hara previously spent more than two decades with the College of Education at California State University, Sacramento. More recently, she was executive director of Sierra College's Nevada County Campus.
The UCLA Department of Psychology and the UCLA Undergraduate Neuroscience Interdepartmental Program invite applications for a full-time Assistant Professor of Teaching who will develop and teach courses in Behavioral, Cellular, and Molecular Neuroscience.
The Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor specializing in climate politics for an initial 4-year renewable term. We welcome applications from any subfield in Political Science addressing the political challenges of climate mitigation, adaptation, or geoengineering at the local, national, or global level.
The Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago invites applications for a non-tenure track appointment as a Research Associate Professor, for a three-year renewable term.
The UCLA Department of Psychology invites applications for a full-time Assistant Professor of Teaching who will contribute to the development and teaching of undergraduate courses in the newly established Youth Behavioral Health undergraduate minor.
The Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University, anticipates offering a number of postdoctoral or more senior research positions in theory, observation, and instrumentation, including (but not limited to): the Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Postdoctoral Fellowship; the Henry Norris Russell Postdoctoral Fellowship; The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Data Management Team; and positions in research related to exoplanet theory, interstellar medium/star formation, plasma astrophysics, and supernovae.