A longtime leader in higher education, Dr. Sias served as president of Kentucky State University from 2004 to 2014. In 2023, she was named interim president of Texas Southern University.
Dr. Bryant was a longtime administrator at several higher education institutions throughout the state of Florida. She was the first woman to serve as interim president of Florida Memorial University and Florida A&M University.
Dr. Gamson was a longtime professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she founded the doctoral program in higher education and the New England Resource Center for Higher Education.
Dr. Shablack, age 35, was in her fourth year teaching at Washington and Lee University at the time of her passing. She studied the relationship between sociocultural factors and language and how they shape and influence attitudes, emotions, behavior, and emotional and physical health.
Dr. Real served three years as president of Marycrest College in Davenport, Iowa, and 10 years as president of Siena Heights College (now University) in Adrian, Michigan. She also had a stint as acting president of the College of St. Mary in Omaha, Nebraska.
Dr. Frey was affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania for three decades. During her tenure, she served as the college's assistant dean and director of advising.
Dr. Leitzel served as the seventeenth president of the University of New Hampshire from 1996-2002. Earlier, she served as provost and interim chancellor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and spent 25 years on the faculty of Ohio State University.
Dr. Rooney was president of Dean College in Franklin, Massachusetts, for nearly three decades. She arrived on the Dean campus in 1995, shortly after its transition from a junior college into a four-year educational institution.
Dr. Henry, a professor of molecular biology and genetics, was the first woman to serve as dean of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, which she led from 2000 to 2010.
Dr. Doress-Worters, who taught and conducted research with Emerson College and Brandeis University, is best known as one of the eleven co-founders of the Boston Women's Health Book Collective.
Dr. Broadway taught biology at Dillard University in New Orleans for over four decades. In addition to her own research in environmental health and molecular biology, she was dedicated to advancing STEM pathways for students from historically underrepresented communities.
Dr. Haack was a long-time professor of law and philosophy at the University of Miami. Her scholarship bridged the worlds of formal logic and legal practice.
