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Michelle Hanlon to Oversee International Effort on Law Governing Space Solar Power
The International Academy of Astronautics has named University of Mississippi law professor Michelle Hanlon to its permanent committee on space solar power. The IAA formed the Permanent Committee on Space Solar Power to advise on ways of harnessing and delivering sunlight-powered energy from outer space to markets on Earth.
Connie Walton Is the New Leader of Grambling State University in Louisiana
Dr. Walton has been serving as the institution’s provost and vice president for academic affairs and has worked at Grambling for over 30 years. Dr. Walton has been a professor of chemistry at the university. Her research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of molecules that exhibit liquid crystalline behavior and polymer synthesis. She holds two U.S. patents.
The First Woman President of Chowan University in Murfreesboro, North Carolina
Dr. Thomas has been serving as the executive vice president at Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia. She began her service there in 2017 as vice president of enrollment management and institutional advancement.
Mississippi University for Women Announces a Name Change
Nora Miller, president of the Mississippi University for Women, announced that pending approval from the state, the university will be known as Mississippi Brightwell University as of July 1. As evidence of the university’s continued commitment to women’s education, the university also announced the establishment of the Women’s College at Mississippi University for Women.
Claudia V. Schrader Is the New Leader of York College of the City University of New York
A longtime member of the CUNY family, Dr. Schrader has served as president of Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn New York, since September 2018. She has held leadership roles in three CUNY schools and worked has more than 20 years in the system.
Laurie Bernotsky Will Be the Next President of West Chester University in Pennsylvania
Dr. Bernotsky has been serving as acting president of PennWest University on loan from her post as executive vice president and provost at West Chester University. Prior to becoming executive vice president and provost, Dr. Bernotsky served as West Chester University’s associate provost and dean of the Graduate School.
Two Women Named to Provost Positions at Universities
Oakland City University in Indiana has named Cathy Robb its next provost and vice president of academic affairs and Monique Guillory was appointed provost and chief academic and enrollment officer at Dillard University in New Orleans, effective April 1, 2024.
Claudine Gay Resigns as President of Harvard University
Dr. Gay had served as president of Harvard University for only six months. She was the first African American and the second woman to lead Harvard in its nearly 400-year history.
Teresa Abi-Nader Dahlberg Will Be the Eleventh President of the University of Tampa
Dr. Dahlberg is currently provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at Texas Christian University. Prior to joining TCU in 2019, Dr. Dahlberg served as dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. She will become president of the University of Tampa on June 1.
Jennifer Rosato Perea Named Director of Accreditation and Legal Education for the American Bar Association
A longtime advocate of student engagement and professionalism, Rosato Perea is one of only a small number of Latina law school deans in the nation, and she would become the first Latina to serve as head of ABA legal education.
Amber Donnelli Will Be the Next Leader of Great Basin College in Elko, Nevada
Since My 2023, Dr. Donnelli has been serving as the dean of Health Science and Human Services for Great Basin College. She will become interim president in July
Adiam Tsegai Is the New President of Erie Community College in Buffalo
Dr. Tsegai previously served as the college’s Officer-in-Charge since 2022 and provost and vice president for academic affairs, a position she was appointed to in mid-2021. She joined SUNY Erie as the dean of engineering and technologies in 2018.
Kimberly van Noort Has Been Named the Ninth Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Asheville
Dr. Van Noort has served as interim chancellor of UNC Asheville since January 1. She served as senior vice president for academic affairs and chief academic officer at the UNC System Office since October 2018 and as vice president for academic programs, faculty, and research from 2016 to 2018.
The New President of the American College of Sports Medicine
Stella L. Volpe is department head and professor of the department of human nutrition, foods, and exercise in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech. Dr. Volpe’s research focuses on obesity and diabetes prevention using nutrition and exercise interventions, mineral supplementation, and by altering the environment to result in greater physical activity and healthy eating.
Mary Pope Maybank Hutson Selected to Lead Sweet Briar College in Virginia
Hutson is the college’s first alumna president. She has been serving as interim president since July. Earlier, Hutson served as Sweet Briar’s senior vice president for alumnae relations and development for eight years.
Liz Magill Resigns as President at the University of Pennsylvania
After giving testimony before Congress, where she refused to say whether calling for the genocide of Jews was contrary to the university’s code of conduct and resulting criticism from all sides of the political spectrum and most importantly some of Penn’s biggest donors, Liz Magill has resigned as president of the University of Pennsylvania.
Jenny Varner Named the Fifth President of Davidson-Davie Community College in North Carolina
Varner, who has served as acting president since July, has been at the college since 2008 and was previously vice president for external affairs and executive director of the college’s foundation. Prior to coming to Davidson-Davie, she worked for U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole and for NASPA, the student affairs professional organization.
Cathy Garzio Named Chief Operating Office for Weill Cornell Medicine
Garzio was previously vice chair and director of finance and administration in the department of medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Earlier, she was administrative director of the department of radiology and biomedical imaging at the University of California, San Francisco.
Robbyn Wacker Leaving the Presidency of State Cloud State University in Minnesota
Dr. Wacker was appointed as the twenty-fourth president of St. Cloud State University in 2018, becoming the first woman to be the educational institution’s permanent president. Earlier, she was a tenured professor of gerontology at the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, where she aslo served as provost.
Kimryn Rathmell Has Been Named Director of the National Cancer Institute
Kimryn Rathmell is the Hugh Jackson Professor of Medicine and chair of the department of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Rathmell will become the seventeenth director of the National Cancer Institute and only the second woman to hold this position leading the nation’s fight against cancer.
Karla Zanik to Serve as Interim Provost at Ohio State University
Dr. Zadnik currently serves as dean of the College of Optometry, a position she has held since 2014, and is the Glenn A. Fry Professor in Optometry and Physiological Optics. She has also served as interim dean of the College of Public Health since July.
Deborah Dyett Desir Is the New President of the American College of Rheumatology
Dr. Desir has more than three decades of experience in clinical medicine. In 1993, she started a rheumatology private practice in Hamden, Connecticut. In 2019, Dr. Desir joined the Yale School of Medicine faculty.
The New Provost at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jennifer Troyer joined the faculty at the university in 1999, beginning as an assistant professor of economics before being named dean of the Belk College of Business in July 2020. A health economist, Dr. Troyer has conducted policy-relevant research on the quality of U.S. nursing homes, the cost-effectiveness of medical interventions, and strategic behavior in the pharmaceutical industry.
Leslie Harroun Is the New Executive Director of the Salazar Center at Colorado State University
The mission of the CSU Salazar Center for North American Conservation is to accelerate the pace and scale of equitable, innovative, and durable solutions for nature and all people by connecting diverse leaders, communities, and resources across the North American continent.
Tammeil Gilkerson Will Be the Next Leader of the Peralta Community College District in Oakland
Dr. Gilkerson currently serves as the president of Evergreen Valley College in San José, California, where she has worked since 2020. From 2017 to 2020, she was president of Laney College in Oakland. Prior to her role at Laney College, Dr. Gilkerson served as vice president of academic and student affairs at Contra Costa College.
Renée V. Ferranti to Lead Programs on Sexual Assault and Harassment Prevention at the National Science Foundation
In this role, Ferranti will coordinate cross-agency activities, drive policy implementation, and provide expert analysis and evaluation of sexual assault prevention and response program procedures. She was the director of the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program at the Peace Corps.
Margaret Sullivan Will Lead the Center for Journalism Ethics and Security at Columbia Journalism School
Sullivan is a weekly columnist for the Guardian US. She writes on media, politics and culture. She has benn serving as the 2023 Jack and Pamela Egan Visiting Professor at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy and Dewitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy.
Heidi Lewis Is the New President of the National Women’s Studies Association
Heidi Lewis, an associate professor of feminist and gender studies at Colorado College, has been elected president of the National Women’s Studies Association. Established in 1977, the NWSA prioritizes promoting and supporting knowledge about women and gender through teaching, learning, research, and service in academic settings.
Kathleen M. Murray Will Be the Next President of Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota
Dr. Murray was the the first woman president at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. Earlier she served as provost and dean of the faculty at Macalester College in St. Paul, as provost at Birmingham-Southern College, and as a professor of piano, dean of the conservatory, and dean of the faculty at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin.
Jenna Carpenter Selected to Lead the Mathematical Association of America
Jenna Carpenter is the founding dean of the School of Engineering and professor of engineering at Campbell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina. She will become president of the association on July 1, 2024. Dr, Carpenter is currently the president of the American Society for Engineering Education.
Ferrum College in Virginia Appoints Mirta Martin as Its Thirteenth President
Dr. Marti has served as interim president since January 2, 2023. Earlier, she was president of Fairmont State University in West Virginia from 2018 to 2022 and president of Fort Hays State University in Kansas from 2014 to 2016.
Melanie Robbins Selected to Lead White Mountains Community College in New Hampshire
Robbins has been affiliated with WMCC since 1996, having begun as a part-time teacher assistant for what was then the New Hampshire Technical College-Berlin. Her work shifted to the college’s Littleton Academic Center where he eventually became director.
The Genomics Institute at the University of California, Santa Cruz Names Its New Leader
Lauren Linton is a scientist, entrepreneur, and executive with experience leading institutions in genomics, pharmaceutical and diagnostic development, biotechnology, entrepreneurship, and innovation. She is well known in the genomics community as one of the leaders of the original Human Genome Project.
Mitra Hooshmand Is the New Leader of the Human Milk Institute at the University of California, San Diego
The university launched the Human Milk Institute in October 2022 to accelerate research on the nature, biology, and therapeutic potential of human milk. The institute is believed to be the first of its kind worldwide.
Bonnie Cordon Is the New President of Southern Virginia University
President Cordon recently completed seven years as a General Officer of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the last five as president of the worldwide Young Women organization.
