Amy Nguyen-Chyung has been named dean of the College of Business at Hawai’i Pacific University. She comes to her new role from the University of California, San Diego, where she served as a professor in the Rady School of Management and faculty co-director of the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur. She previously taught at the University of Michigan, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to her career in academia, she gained over 15 years of international finance experience at several companies around the world.
Dr. Nguyen-Cyung is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University, where she majored in East Asian studies with an emphasis on political economy. She received a master of public administration degree from Princeton University, an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
Haya Ajjan has been named dean of the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business at Elon University in North Carolina. An Elon faculty member for over a decade, she currently serves as associate dean and professor of management information systems. Earlier in her tenure, she founded the university’s Center for Organizational Analytics. Her research and teaching interests focus on artificial intelligence, digital business strategy, and emerging technologies.
Dr. Ajjan received her bachelor’s degree in business administration, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in information technology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
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.