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Three Women in New Faculty Posts
Tiffany Ana Lopez now holds a named chair at the University of California Riverside. Atiya Kai Stokes Brown was promoted at Bucknell University and Birgitta Johnson was hired to the faculty at the University of South Carolina.
University of Chicago Defends Its Efforts to Increase Women in STEM Fields
After a faculty member insults the women at a neuroscience conference, the university reiterates its commitment to advance opportunities for women in STEM fields.
Three Academic Women Win Packard Fellowships
The new class of 16 Packard Foundation Fellows includes three women: Karine Gibbs of Harvard University, Sarah Aciego of the University of Michigan, and Tiffany Shaw of Columbia University.
Bucknell University Promotes Four Women to Full Professor Posts
The four new full professors at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, are Judith Grisel, Shara McCallum, Katharina Vollmayr-Lee and Constance Ziemian.
A Milestone Appointment for an African American Woman at Ole Miss
RoSusan Bartee is the first African American to be named a full professor in the department of leadership and counselor education at the University of Mississippi.
Three Women Named to Endowed Chairs at Auburn University
There are three women among the 13 new holders of endowed chairs. They are L. Allison Jones-Farmer, Alice E. Smith, and Jenny B. Schuessler.
Nine Women Promoted to Full Professor at the University of Iowa
The University of Iowa has announced that 31 faculty members have been promoted to the rank of full professor. Nine of the faculty receiving promotions to full professor are women.
Leslie Tower to Lead Social Work Education Council on Women
Dr. Tower has been on the faculty at West Virginia University since 2002 and has dual appointments in the School of Social Work and the department of public administration.
Three Women Join the Faculty at the University of Missouri Kansas City School of Education
The new education faculty members are Kimberly Langrehr, Kindel Nash, and Laurel B. Watson.
A Trio of Women Appointed to Teaching Positions
Bridgett vonHoldt will join the Princeton faculty next year. Aisling Kelliher has joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University and Fiona Somerset is now teaching at the University of Connecticut.
Assessing the Progress of Women Faculty at Yale University
Women are 24 percent of the tenured faculty. This has improved from 17 percent a decade ago.
Some Ivies Are Struggling in Efforts to Reduce the Gender Gap in Faculty Posts
At both Princeton and Harvard, women are only one quarter of the tenure and tenure-track faculty.
Three Women Named to Endowed Chairs at Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire has named 14 faculty members to endowed chairs. Only three of the 14 professors named to endowed chairs are women, Ada Cohen, Lynn Higgins, and Silvia Spitta.
Lafayette College Adds Five Women to Its 215-Member Faculty
The new hires are Rachel Brummel, Julia Nicodemus, Clara Valdano-Lopez, Neha Vora, and Wendy Wilson-Fall.
Four Women With New Faculty Positions
Vishakha Desai at Columbia, Nancy G. Harrington at the University of Kentucky, Louis McCullough at the University of Connecticut and Jennifer Brandt at High Point University have new faculty roles.
The Gender Gap in Faculty Positions at the University of Missouri
At many colleges and universities across the United States, women are vastly underrepresented in faculty positions, particularly those posts at the higher end of the academic ladder.
Six Women Join the Faculty at the University of Wisconsin Sheboygan
The new faculty members are Ann Mathis, Julie Konik, Kathy Pedersen, Stephanie Evenson, Leigh Ann Kramer, and Yer Lang.
MIT to Open a New Childcare Facility
The new center will more than double the on-campus childcare capacity for university faculty, staff, and graduate students.
Four Women Appointed to Named Professorships
The women appointed to named chairs are Jamie Kruse at East Carolina University, Lauren Monroe at Cornell, Lisa Laycock Willet at the University of Alabama Birmingham, and Carole Bellini-Sharp at Hamilton College
Two Women Named to Assistant Professor Posts
Lesley Lavery has joined the faculty at Macalester College and Katherine Baber is a new assistant professor at the University of Redlands.
University of New Mexico’s Center on Alcoholism, Substance Abuse, and Addictions Names Two Women to Its Faculty
The new faculty members are Sarah Feldstein Ewing and Katie Witkiewitz. Both hold doctorates in clinical psychology.
Women Scholars Named to Endowed Chairs
Nikky Finney at the University of Kentucky and Tananarive Due at Spelman College were appointed to named chairs.
Two Women Named to the Faculty at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music
The new assistant professors at the conservatory are Hagit Limor Sunberg and Sydney Schnurr.
Holy Cross Welcomes Six Women to Its Faculty
There are 14 new faculty members at the highly ranked College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Six of the new faculty members are women.
Two Women Join the Journalism Faculty at the University of Southern Mississippi
Vanessa Murphree and Gina Chen have joined the permanent faculty at the School of Mass Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg.
Five Women Taking on New Faculty Roles
The appointees are Virginia Blanton, Catherine Bagwell, Elaine Heekin, Despina Stavrinos, and Daisy Stewart Cartwright.
Two New Full Professors at the University of Wyoming
Kelly Tian is a full professor in the College of Business and Jacqueline Leonard is a professor of elementary and early childhood education.
University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac Adds Two Women to Its Faculty
Yanting Liang is an assistant professor of mathematics and Michaela Nowell is an assistant professor of sociology.
Three New Assistant Professors at Wayland Baptist University
Laura Bandenburg and Karen Beth Stovas are teaching in the English department and Daniela Derderian is an assistant professor of biological sciences.
Survey Finds Low Levels of Women Faculty at Yale
Despite the low numbers, there has been improvement. A decade ago, women were only 17 percent all tenured faculty, compared to 24 percent today.
Breastfeeding Professor Ignites Debate at American University
Some students objected when Adrienne Pine, a single mother and an assistant professor of anthropology, brought her sick baby to class and breastfed the child while continuing to lecture. Professor Pine wonders what all the fuss is about.
Northwood University Promotes Two Women to Associate Professor
Mariana Grigoras was promoted to associate professor of social sciences and humanities and Karla Spaeth is an associate professor of hospitality management.
Four Women Named to Endowed Chairs at Vanderbilt University
The new holders of the endowed chairs are Shari Barkin, Heidi Hamm, Linda Norman and Tracy Sharpley-Whiting.
Six Women Named to Faculty Posts
Taking on new teaching roles are Susan Hockfield, Anne Kenney, Robin Dease, Anastasia Boles and Cecilia King. Anne Kenney was reappointed for another five-year term as University Librarian at Cornell.
Five Women Join the Faculty at Wilkes University
LoriAnn Pajalich, Margaret Pavla, Maureen Schoch, Lisbeth Turner, and Pei Zhang have joined the faculty of Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
