Grinnell College, the highly rated liberal arts college in Iowa, has appointed six senior faculty members to endowed chairs. Two of the new appointees are women.
M. Johanna Meehan, a professor of philosophy, was named the McCay-Casady Professor of Humanities.
Dr. Meehan is a graduate of Brandeis University. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Boston University.
Astrid Henry, an associate professor of English and director of the gender, women’s, and sexuality studies program, was named to the Louise Noun Chair in Women’s Studies.
Dr. Henry is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College. She holds a master’s degree from the New School in New York City and a Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
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.