Constance Mallette was promoted to vice chancellor for finance and administration at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. Since 2015, she has served as associate vice chancellor for finance and administration at the university. Earlier, she was assistant vice president for finance for the University of North Carolina System.
Mallette is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, where she majored in finance. She holds a master’s degree in rehabilitation counseling from Winston-Salem State University.
Jennifer Ricklin was appointed director of the Software Solutions Division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She is the former senior adviser to the director in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.
Dr. Ricklin is a graduate of Sam Houston State University, where she majored in physics. She holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from New Mexico State University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Jess Ettell Irvine was named director of student conduct and community standards at Ohio Wesleyan University. She has been serving as director of student rights and responsibilities at the College of Wooster in Ohio.
Ettell Irvine is a graduate of the College at Brockport of the State University of New York System, where she majored in social work. She holds a master’s degree in higher education administration from the University at Buffalo.
Leandra Hayes-Burgess is the new vice president of institutional advancement at Benedict College in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was the senior development director for central initiatives and scholarships at the University of Miami in Florida.
Hayes-Burgess is a graduate of Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, where she majored in communication arts. She holds a master’s degree in philanthropy and development from Saint Mary’s University of Minnesota.
Diane Glow Stormberg was promoted to assistant vice president for alumni relations and donor engagement at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. She was director of parent and family programs at the university.
Stromberg is a 1980 graduate of Creighton University, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing.
Glenda S. Lattimore was named director of financial aid at Jackson State University in Mississippi. She has been serving as assistant director of financial aid at the university and has been on the staff of the financial aid office for 30 years.
Lattimore holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business from Jackson State University.
Emily Shandley was promoted to registrar at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. She previously served in the Faculty Support unit of the registrar’ office at the university.
Before joining the staff at Yale, Shandley was administrator for space planning and classroom utilization at New York University. Earlier, she was associate director for university scheduling at Princeton University in New Jersey.
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.