Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Texas Woman’s University has received a $599,863 grant from the National Science Foundation for a program to increase the number of women pursuing degrees in STEM fields. The Quantitative and Analytical Sciences for Academic Reinforcement and Success program will provide scholarships of from $5,000 to $10,000 for students majoring in STEM fields.
Temple University in Philadelphia received a $500,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to conduct a study on the relationship between women’s experiences with violence and unintended pregnancies. The study will be under the direction of Deborah B. Nelson, an associate professor public health and director of the Maternal and Child Health Wellness Lab at Temple University. Professor Nelson is a graduate of the State University of New at Plattsburgh, where she majored in chemistry. She earned a Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
With more than 30 years of experience in higher education, Dr. Richtermeyer has spent the past three years as executive vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at Rutgers University-Camden
Cheryl Norman was appointed president of Ridgewater College in Minnesota and Ellen Kennedy was named interim president of Cape Cod Community College in Massachusetts.
Dr. Scarlatta has led the University of Michigan-Dearbon on an interim basis for the past year. Pending approval from the board of regents, she is slated to become the university's permanent leader on May 22.
Nicole Reaves has been serving as executive vice president and chief programs officer at Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, North Carolina. On July 15, she is slated to become the first woman president of Schenectady County Community College within the State University of New York System.
The selected candidate should have expertise and experience in theoretical models in labor and public economics as well as in microeconometrics and programming.
The University of Arizona School of Music seeks a visionary and collaborative Director to lead its comprehensive music program through a time of opportunity and transformation.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania seek candidates for an Assistant Professor position in the non-tenure clinician educator track.