The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation has announced the selection of eight new Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholars for 2025. Six are women: Jeanine Amacher of Western Washington University, Shuming Chen of Oberlin College, Melissa Gordon of Lafayette College, Geneva Laurita of Bates College, Julie Pollock of the University of Richmond and Kathryn Riley of Swarthmore College.
Including this year’s cohort, since 1902, 3,706 Americans have won Rhodes Scholarships, representing 329 colleges and universities. Since 1976, women have been eligible and 697 women have won Rhodes Scholarships.
L'Oréal USA has revealed the 2025 For Women in Science awardees, providing five women postdoctoral scientists grants in order to advance their research.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently announced the 22 latest recipients in its fellowship program, commonly referred to as “genius grants.” Of this year’s 22 winners, sixx are women scholars with current ties to the academic world in the United States.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration recently announced its 2025 cohort of 10 new astronauts. They were selected from a pool of over 8,000 applicants. For the first time in history, the new astronaut class has a majority of women.
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has appointed 14 scholars to its faculty. Seven of the 14 appointees are women.
The six women scholars appointed to named professorships at the University of Chicago are Katherine Baicker, Diana Bolotin, Christina Ciaccio, Yueran Ma, Alison Siegler, and Jennifer Wolf.
The prize has the goal of rewarding and encouraging innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms. Of this year’s nine winners of the Dan David Prize, three are women with affiliations at colleges and universities in the United States.
The American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in North America, has announced the election of 38 new members. Of the 28 new members from the United States, 12 are women with current ties to the academic world.
Karisma Price is an assistant professor of English at Tulane University. Aisha Sabatini Sloan is an assistant professor of English at the University of Michigan and Shubha Sunder teaches creative writing at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
