Dorothy Klimis-Zacas, professor of clinical nutrition at the University of Maine, has received the 2024 Industry Recognition Award from the American Society for Nutrition. The annual award recognizes a scholar who has made significant contributions to nutrition science. Dr. Klimis-Zacas was honored for her research into the cardiovascular and metabolic health benefits of wild blueberries.
Throughout her career, Dr. Klimis-Zacas’ work has focused on nutritional physiology and biochemistry, nutrition and vascular function and metabolism, and the benefits of berry bioactives. She teaches a wide range of classes at the University of Maine including introductory and advanced food and nutrition courses.
Dr. Klimis-Zacas holds a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State 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.