At the University of South Florida College of Public Health, Jamie Corvin will serve as senior associate dean for academic and student affairs, Tricia Penniecook will serve as director of the Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice, and Ellen Daley will serve as vice dean for faculty and research.
Presented every four years by the International Mathematical Union, the Fields Medal is considered the highest honor in the field of mathematics. Dr. Wang has been recognized for her recent resolution of the Kakeya conjecture, a central problem in harmonic analysis and geometry that had been unsolved for more than a century.
In 2024, women earned 26.6 percent of all bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in engineering. Women were most represented among graduates in the environmental and biomedical disciplines. They were least represented among graduates in electrical and mechanical disciplines.
Dr. Shah is the Ursula Geller Distinguished Professor of Research in Cardiovascular Diseases and associate dean for translational research at the Duke University School of Medicine. She will serve as president-elect of the American Heart Association in 2026–2027, followed by a one-year term as president in 2027–2028.
In an analysis of clinical studies conducted between 2015 and 2023, women's participation met or exceed their disease prevalence in 67 percent of trials. However, some areas of study still significantly under-enroll women participants.
Inci Yildirim and Deborah Lenschow were appointed to endowed professorships at Yale School of Medicine and the Washington University School of Medicine, respectively. Katerina Akassoglou was appointed to an endowed chair in a joint initiative between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
Throughout her career, Dr. Borowczak has conducted extensive research on integrated STEM education, often focusing on how engineering, technology, and math can be woven into the classroom at all levels and across subjects. She currently serves as director of the School of Teacher Education at the University of Central Florida.
On average, women biologists in tenure-track and tenure faculty roles at R1 institutions publish less per year than their male colleagues. Women also receive fewer citations, even after controlling for their overall lower publication volume.
Under a new agreement, the university will assume responsibility for all research components of the Magee-Womens Research Institute and Foundation and its grant activities. Pamela Moalli, a leading physician-scientist in urogynecology and reconstructive pelvic surgery, has been named executive and scientific director of the institute.
Dr. May-Newman of San Diego State University has been recognized by the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs for her career-long contributions to the field of cardiovascular biomechanics and the understanding of heart-support technologies.
