Celeste M. Nelson was appointed the Wilke Family Professor in Bioengineering and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University in New Jersey. Dr. Nelson joined the Princeton faculty in 2007, was promoted to associate professor in 2012, and to full professor in 2016.
Professor Nelson is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she double majored in biology and chemical engineering. She holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Suzanne Bliven Shu was named the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing in the School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Her research is focused on consumer judgment and decision making. She was an associate professor of marketing at the Anderson School of Management of the University of California, Los Angeles.
Dr. Shu holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Cornell Univerity. She earned an MBA and a Ph.D. in behavioral science from the Univerity of Chicago.
Karen Lin was appointed to the Abraham Roth Chair in Preventative Medicine at the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. She is also the director of the medical school’s acupuncture program.
Dr. Lin is a graduate of Stanford University in California. She holds a master of public health degree and a medical doctorate from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
Anne-Marie Deitering has been appointed the interim Donald and Delpha Campbell University Librarian at Oregon State University. She will oversee a staff of more than 100 people in the libraries and the Oregon State University Press. Deitering joined the library staff in 2003 and has been serving as associate university librarian for learning services for the past four years.
Deitering holds a master’s degree in American history from Syracuse Univerity in New York and a master of library science degree from Emporia State University in Kansas.
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.