The Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently granted tenure to five women scholars in the School of Engineering: Christina Delimitrou, Sili Deng, Carmen Guerra-Garcia, Laura Lewis, and Tami Lieberman.
The three women promoted to full professor at Hamilton College in New York are Kate Brown in physics, Courtney Gibbons in mathematics and statistics, and Pavitra Sundar in literature and creative writing.
The women who have been appointed to new academic leadership roles are Kyna Shelley, Michelle Gray, Christi Brookes, Shirley Clark, Ruth Varner, Janette Kim, Amy Eyler, Stephanie King, and Rima Nakkash.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new dean positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
The women who have been selected for endowed faculty appointments are Maria Geisinger at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Indira U. Mysorekar at Pennsylvania State University, Triparna Sen at Ohio State University, and Jennifer Lemke at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
The five women appointed to chair academic departments at the University of Notre Dame are Ying ‘Alison’ Cheng in psychology; Emilia Justyna Powell in political science; Marisel Moreno in romance languages and literatures; Anne García-Romero in film, television, and theatre; and Dianne Pinderhughes in Africana studies.
St. Catherine University, a women-oriented educational institution in St. Paul, Minnesota, has announced the promotion of six faculty members to the rank of full professor. Four of these promotions went to women.
The appointments are Katrina Armstrong at Columbia University, Melissa Schwartzberg at Princeton University, R.F. Kuang at the College of the Holy Cross, Khadijah Ali-Coleman at Coppin State University, Stacey Saunders-Adams at Ohio University, Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Jess Jones at the University of Pennsylvania.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new dean positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
In the School of Medicine, Celeste M. Karch is the inaugural Barbara Burton and Reuben M. Morriss III Professor and Janet S. Lee is the inaugural Selma and Herman Seldin Distinguished Professor of Medicine. In the College of Arts and Sciences, Yan Yu is the inaugural Art Krieg Professor.
The new provosts are Barbara Rodriguez at the University of New Mexico, Bridget Chalk at Manhattan University in New York, and Jaci Lederman at Vincennes University in Indiana. All three women had been serving as their university's interim provost.
