All Entries in the "Faculty" Category
Faculty News: Four Women Named to New Posts
Lauren Ancel Myers, Juliette Rogers, Mary Leigh Wolfe and Barbara Tobias were promoted to new ranks or positions.
A Half-Century of Women Faculty at Amherst College
In 1962 Rose Olver was the first women hired to teach at the then all-male Amherst College. She is still on the faculty today.
Former Astronaut Joins the Faculty at the University of Missouri
Linda Godwin rode the space shuttle four times and walked in space twice.
Six Women Faculty Gain Promotions at Pomona College
Pomona College recently promoted two women faculty members to full professor and four women to associate professor with tenure.
Huron University Names Inaugural Holder of Chair in Islamic Studies
Ingrid Mattson has been on the faculty at the Hartford Seminary.
Susan Kollin Named to Distinguished Professorship
She is a Letters and Science Distinguished Professor at Montana State University.
Renee Hobbs to Lead New School of Communication at the University of Rhode Island
She is currently a professor of communications at Temple University in Philadelphia.
Two Women Named to Veterinary Faculty at Virginia Tech
Theresa Pancotto and Emily Miller are new assistant professors in the department of small animal clinical sciences.
Five Women Join the Faculty at the School of Public Health at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
The school has eight new faculty members this fall. Five are women.
Three Women Named to New Faculty Positions
Barbara Boswell, Ann Carlson, and Charlene Wolf-Hall get new assignments.
American University Sociologist Starts Up New e-Journal on Language
Celine-Marie Pascale is president of the Language and Society Committee of the International Sociological Association, which is publishing the journal. She sits on the journal’s editorial board.
Nancy Huntly to Lead Ecology Center at Utah State University
Since 1986, she has been a member of the faculty of the department of biological sciences at Idaho State University.
Phylicia Rashad Named to an Endowed Chair at Fordham University
The chair was made possible by a $2,225,000 donation from Denzel Washington.
Margaret Katherine Banks to Lead Engineering Programs at Texas A&M
In January she will become dean of the university’s largest academic college.
CalTech Professor Wins National Medal of Science
Jacqueline K. Barton is the only woman among the seven winners.
Rebecca Henderson Named University Professor at Harvard
There are now 24 University Professors at Harvard. Only three are women.
Three New Full Professors at the University of California at Irvine
Olufunmilayo Arewa, Katherine Porter, and Shu-Ming Wang are the new full professors.
Three Women Join the Faculty of Business School in Texas
The University of Houston-Victoria’s School of Business has eight new faculty members this fall. Of these eight, three are women.
Montana State to Study Gender Equity on Its Campus
Only one third of the tenured faculty at the university are women. But 60 percent of the adjunct faculty are women.
Three Women Among the 11 New Faculty at Lafayette College
This fall Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, has welcomed 11 new faculty members to campus. Three of the new faculty members are women.
Two Women Join Social Work Faculty at USC
The School of Social Work at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles has hired four new faculty members. Two of the four are women.
Five New Women Teaching at Union College
There are 19 new faculty members on the Schenectady, New York campus. Five are women.
Twelve Women Faculty Promoted at the University of Missouri Kansas City
The University of Missouri at Kansas City has promoted 31 faculty members to associate or full professor. Twelve of the promotions went to women.
New Women Faculty at Austin Peay State University
Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, has 32 new tenure or tenure-track faculty on campus this fall. Among the 32 new faculty members are 16 women.
A Wealth of New Women Faculty at Colgate
Colgate University, the highly selective liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York, has announced a new large group of women faculty on campus this fall.
Four Women Who Were Named to the Faculty at the University of Vermont
There are 30 new faculty members at University of Vermont this fall. Here are brief profiles of four women named to the faculty.
Chemistry Professor Sue Clark Named to Federal Nuclear Waste Oversight Board
President Obama named the Washington State University chemist to the federal board.
Diana Rapp Joins the Faculty at Ohio Valley University
Diana Rapp was named an associate professor of Ohio Valley University in Vienna, West Virginia. She was the principal of Lincoln High School in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Two Women Promoted to Distinguished Professorships
Cynthia Nance and Karen Wooley have been named to prestigious faculty chairs.
Three New Department Chairs
Anisa Zvonkovic, Karilynne Wallace, and Amy Petersen Jensen will lead their academic departments.
Three Women Awarded Emerita Status at Evangel University
Norma Champion, Marilyn Kingsriter, and Marilyn Quigley have retired.
Six Women Join the Faculty at the College of the Holy Cross
The College of the Holy Cross, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Worcester, Massachusetts, has announced the hiring of 14 new faculty members for the 2011-12 academic year. Six of the new faculty members are women.
The Huge Gender Gap in U.S. Dental School Faculty Is Hard to Swallow
While women are making inroads as students in dental schools, there remains a huge gender gap in dental school faculty.
Four Women Named Department Chairs at the University of Kentucky
The University of Kentucky has announced the appointment of eight scholars to department chairs. Four of the new department chairs are women.
Two Women Named to Endowed Chairs at Dartmouth College
Pamela Crossley and Irene Kacandes are among the nine Dartmouth scholar named to endowed chairs.
