The new assistant professors are Maria Florencia Ercoli in plant genetics, Carol Tardivo in horticulture, Maggie Sogin in ecological metabolomics, Elizabeth Brauer in fungal biology, and Yan Hong in molecular, cell, and systems biology.
The women taking on new academic leadership roles are Laura E. Lyons at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Mila Getmansky Sherman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Sheryl Oring at Virginia Commonwealth University, Maria Victoria Murillo at Columbia University, Madhusmita Misra at Washington University, and Ashley Nickels at Rutgers University-Camden.
Joining the Haverford College faculty are Robin Caron in economics, Crystal Fodrey in the writing program, Elise Harrala in sociology, Courtney Marshall in neuroscience, Kelly Underman in health studies, and Miranda Young in peace, justice, and human rights.
“Faculty are the lifeblood of any university, and students are the reason we do this work,” said Dr. Brown. “I look forward to listening, building trust, and working alongside this community to advance our land-grant mission through teaching, research and service.”
Hollins University, the liberal arts educational institution for women in Roanoke, Virginia, has announced the addition of several new faculty members including Eliana Chavkin, Malú Machuca Rose, Andrea Briceño Mosquera, Hannah Perkins Stark, and Gwyneth Strope.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale has announced the addition of 21 new tenured and tenure-track faculty this fall. Nine of these new faculty members are women.
Rosalind Morris of Columbia University and Katherine Kiesel of the University of California, Davis are taking on academic leadership roles at their institutions. Elena Shadrina is a new assistant professor at Princeton University, and Heather Lerner joined Amherst College as director of the Beneski Museum of Natural History.
Margarita David was named interim dean of the Rita & Larry Salva School of Nursing & Health Professions at Rowan University in New Jersey and Jennifer Jackowski was named dean of STEM at Northern Essex Community College in Massachusetts.
Across a large sample of faculty at nearly 300 universities, women were more than twice as likely as men to report prior experiences of devaluation at work. Among respondents who had experienced devaluation, women were more likely than men to say devaluation was tied to their gender, race, age, or parenthood status.
Dr. Dittmar has served as the Howard R. Hughes Provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Rice University since 2022. Her contract was recently extended, and she will now serve in the role through the 2031 fiscal year.
Twenty new faculty members have joined the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Nine of the new faculty members are women.
