Patricia D. Suplee, an associate professor in the School of Nursing at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey, received the 2017 Suzanne Feetham Nurse Scientist Family Research Award from the Eastern Nursing Research Society. She has been on the faculty at the nursing school since 2009. Dr. Suplee is the co-editor of the textbook Handbook of Clinical Teaching in Nursing and Health Sciences (Jones and Bartlett, 2010).
Dr. Suplee is a graduate of Indiana University. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Johnnetta B. Cole, the former president of Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina, was recognized by having a dormitory named in her honor on the college’s campus. The Johnnetta Betch Cole Honors Hall will be reserved for students with at least a 3.0 grade point average.
Johnnetta Cole was president of Bennett College from 2002 to 2007. Earlier, she was president of Spelman College in Atlanta. In 2009, Dr. Cole was named director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. She earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in anthropology from Northwestern University.
Jennifer Pazour, an assistant professor of industrial and systems engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, has been selected to receive the Dr. Hamed K. Eldin Outstanding Early Career IE in Academic Award from the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers. Dr. Pazour is an expert in logistics. She joined the faculty at RPI in 2015 after teaching at the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
Dr. Pazour is a graduate of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, where she majored in industrial engineering. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas.
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.