Seven Women Faculty Members Taking on New Assignments at Colleges and Universities

Debra Gurney was appointed director of nursing at the College of DuPage in Illinois. She was assistant dean for the College of Health Sciences at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois.

Dr. Gurney is a graduate of Rockford College in Illinois. She holds a master’s degree in medical-surgical nursing and an educational doctorate from Northern Illinois University.

Claudia Kroker-Bode was named director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program in the College of Medicine at Florida State University. She was director for the internal medicine residency at the Carillon School of Medicine of Virginia Tech in Roanoke.

Dr. Kroker-Bode received her medical training at the University of Münster in Germany.

Caroline Cheung is a new assistant professor of classics at Princeton University in New Jersey. An expert in the art and archaeology of Roman and pre-Roman Italy, Dr. Cheung recently completed her doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation was entitled, “Storage and Packaging for an Empire: Agricultural Economies in West-Central Italy, c. 200 BCE – 200 CE.”

Dr. Cheung is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles, where she double majored in biochemistry and classical civilization. She earned a master’s degree in classical archaeology at Florida State University.

Tracey George, who holds the Charles B. Cox III and Lucy D. Cox Family Chair in Law and Liberty in the law school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, has been given the added duties of associate provost for faculty affairs at the university. She joined the faculty in 2004 after teaching at Northwestern University and the University of Missouri.

Professor George is a graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where she double majored in political science and economics. She holds a master’s degree in political science from Washington University in St. Louis and a juris doctorate from Stanford Law School.

Kathleen Thomas was appointed chair of the department of finance and economics at Mississippi State University in Starkville. A professor of economics, Dr. Thomas joined the faculty of the College of Business at the university in 2002 as an assistant professor.

Professor Thomas is a graduate of Birmingham-Southern College in Alabama, where she majored in economics. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Alabama and a doctorate from Georgia State University.

Tammy L. Haut Donahue will be the inaugural chair of the new department of biomedical engineering at the University of Massachusetts. Since 2011, she has been a professor of mechanical engineering at Colorado State University. Earlier, Professor Haut Donahue taught at Michigan Technological University.

Dr. Haut Donahue is a graduate of Michigan State University, where she majored in mechanical engineering. She holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from the University of California, Davis.

Nancy Schoenberg, the Marion Pearsall Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the College of Medicine at the University of Kentucky, was named director of the new Center for Health Equity Transformation at the university. She joined the faculty at the university in 1996.

Professor Schoenberg is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where she majored in political science and developmental economics. She holds a master’s degree in anthropology from the University of Texas and a Ph.D. in medical anthropology from the University of Florida.