Editor

Amidst a period of significant financial turmoil, Sonoma State University in California has recently eliminated its entire athletic department, dozens of faculty and staff positions, and six academic departments, including its women's and gender studies program. A group of students and alumni have banded together to protest the decision and save their department.

For more than three decades, Dr. Jackson taught English at Alabama State University. During her long tenure, she served as director of the interdisciplinary honors program and chair of the department of humanities.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].

Dr. Christine Curcio and Dr. Cynthia Owsley, longtime colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, have spent decades studying age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of central vision loss.