Jeanine E. Gangeness has been named acting dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Winona State University in Minnesota. She joined the university in 2015 as associate vice president for academic affairs and also served as dean of the School of Graduate Studies.
Dr. Gangeness holds a bachelor’s degree in nursing, a master’s degree in rural health, and a Ph.D. in nursing education all from the University of North Dakota.
Beth A Longenecker has been named dean of the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Athens. She currently serves as associate dean for clinical education and assistant professor of emergency medicine at Midwestern University’s Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine.
Dr. Longenecker is a graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she majored in musicology with a minor in piano performance. She holds a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from Ohio University.
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.