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Ingrid Daubechies Wins the 2023 Wolf Prize in Mathematics
Dr. Daubechies is one of the world’s leading authorities on wavelet theory, a technique frequently used to shrink digital photos and movies so that they take up fewer kilobytes without noticeably losing detail. Her methods have been used to digitize the FBI’s vast fingerprint repository and to determine the authenticity of the works of the Great Masters.
A Trio of Women Who Have Been Named to Endowed Chairs at Major Universities
Hannah Stolze was appointed the inaugural William E. Crenshaw Endowed Chair in Supply Chain Management at Baylor University in Texas. Teri K. Reed has been named to the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair at the University of Oklahoma Polytechnic Institute in Tulsa and Heidi Hehnly was named the Renée Crown Honors Professor in the Sciences and Mathematics at Syracuse University in New York.
Tressie McMillan Cottom Is the Winner of the Gittler Prize from Brandeis University
The Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize was created in 2007 by the late Professor Joseph B. Gittler to recognize outstanding and lasting scholarly contributions to racial, ethnic, and/or religious relations. The annual award includes a $25,000 prize and a medal.
In Memoriam: Donna Jean Terbizan, 1953-2023
Dr. Terbizan joined the faculty at North Dakota State University in 1982 and taught there for 40 years. In addition to teaching, she was chair of the University Senate Academic Affairs Committee, vice chair of the Institutional Review Board, served on the Graduate Council, and was president of the University Senate.
University of Montana’s Anna Conley Recognized for Her Scholarship on Comparative Law
Anna C. Conley, an assistant professor in the Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana, received the 2023 Mark Tushnet Prize from the Association of American Law Schools. The award recognizes the year’s best article on comparative law.
In Memoriam: Rose Marie Kujawa, 1943-2022
In 1976, Rose Marie Kujawa joined the faculty at what is now Madonna University in Livonia, Michigan. She served as the sixth president of the educational institution from 2001 to her retirement in 2015.
In Memoriam: Molly Corbett Broad 1941-2023
Molly Corbett Broad was the first woman to serve as president of the University of North Carolina System and the first woman president of the American Council on Education.
Lisa Monteggia of Vanderbilt University Shares the Anna-Monika Prize for Research on Depressive Disorders
Professor Monteggia and her Vanderbilt colleague Ege Kavalali are being honored for their work on rapid mechanisms of action of ketamine as an antidepressant. They identified a brain-derived neurotrophic factor and its receptor are required in the hippocampus for ketamine to produce antidepressant effects.
How Introductory Courses Weed Out Women From STEM Degree Completion
Researcers from Pennsylvania State University and Williams College found the association between low performance in an introductory STEM class and failure to obtain a STEM degree is stronger for women students, even after controlling for academic preparation in high school and intent to obtain a STEM degree.
Jane Barnsteiner Named a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursinig
Dr. Barnsteiner is professor emerita at the School of Nursing of the University of Pennsylvania. She previously served as director of nursing for translational research at the University of Pennsylvania Health System and as director of nursing practice and research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
In Memoriam: Joyce Mann, 1957-2022
Joyce Mann was the director of the International Public Policy and Management Program at the Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. She joined the faculty at the university in 1999.
Six Women Scholars Join the Faculty at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota
Macalester College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in St. Paul, Minnesota, has announced the appointments of eight new tenure-track faculty members. Six of these appointments have gone to women. They are Emily First, Christina Hughes, Alix Johnson, Coral Lumbley, Joslenne Peña, and Michelle Tong.
Two Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Provost Positions
Shivanthi Anandan is the new provost and vice president of academic affairs at La Salle University in Philadelphia and Nicola Blake was appointed interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at Stella and Charles Guttman Community College in New York City.
Mindy Benson Is the First Woman President of Southern Utah University in Cedar City
Before assuming the role of interim president last year, Benson served as vice president of alumni and community relations at Southern Utah University for eight years. Earlier, she served as executive director of alumni relations and special events and director of student activities at the university.
In Memoriam: Judith Ann Schiff, 1937-2022
Judith Schiff, the chief research archivist at Yale University Library, was one of the longest serving members of the Yale staff with a career spanning more than 60 years.
In Memoriam: Linda Howard Watkins, 1943-2022
After earning an MLIS degree from what is now Simmons University in Boston, Linda Watkins was hired as a full-time librarian at the School of Library and Information Science. She served on the staff there for 33 years until her retirement in 2014.
University of Houston Scholar Wins the 2021 Xavier Villaurrutia Writers Award for Writers
Cristina Rivera Garza, professor of Hispanic studies and creative writing at the University of Houston, was honored for her book El Invencible Verano de Liliana, which is based on the story of her sister’s unsolved murder in a borough of Mexico City in 1990.
Colleen Simpson Appointed President of Front Range Community College in Westminster, Colorado
Dr. Simpson has been serving as vice president of student services and Regional Learning Centers at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. Earlier, she served as the administrator overseeing retention and student success at Bronx Community College of the City University of New York.
Christy Harris Lemak Honored by the Association of University Programs in Health Administration
Christy Harris Lemak is a professor and chair of the department of health services administration at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She was honored for her outstanding contributions to the field of healthcare management education.
After the Pandemic Struck, College-Educated Women Stayed in the Labor Force
The number of women with a college degree and children under age 4 who were at work was almost 4 percentage points higher in spring 2021 compared with spring 2018, while mothers of young children without a college degree saw a drop of 4.4 percentage points in their work status.
Joy Bodin Selected as the New Leader of Hennepin Technical College in Minnesota
Since 2017, Bodin has served as the vice president of academic and student affairs at Central Lakes College, with campuses in Brainerd and Staples, Minnesota. Previously, she served Hennepin Technical College from 1992 to 2017 in several capacities, most recently as academic dean.
Academic Study Finds a Large Gender Gap in Corporate Severance Packages
Researchers from the University of Nebraska Omaha and the University of New Hampshire found that on average, men in executive leadership positions received over $500,000 more in severance compensation than women in similar level positions.
In Memoriam: Nora Clearman England, 1946-2022
Nora England was the Dallas TACA Centennial Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. An expert on the languages of the Mayans, she founded the Center for Indigenous Languages of Latin America at the University of Texas.
In Memoriam: Madeleine Albright, 1937-2022
Madeleine Albright was the first woman to hold the post of Secretary of State and a long-time faculty member at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.
Syracuse University’s Gwendolyn Pough to Lead the Rhetoric Society of America
Gwendolyn Pough, dean’s professor of the humanities and professor of women’s and gender studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University in New York, will serve a six-year term as president-elect, president, and past-president, of the Rhetoric Society of America, beginning in July.
Barbara Bellefeuille Has Been Named the Eighth President of Bethel University in Mishawaka, Indiana
Dr. Bellefeuille has served as interim president of the university since June 1, 2021. She is the first female to serve in the university’s highest leadership role. Dr. Bellefeuille has served at Bethel University since 2012, spending almost nine years as vice president for academic services.
Barnard College Receives a Gift More Than Double the Size of Its Previous Largest Donation
Barnard College, the highly selective liberal arts educational institution for women in New York City, is the recipient of a $55 million gift from Diana T. Vagelos and P. Roy Vagelos to fund the renovation and expansion of the college’s science center. Diana Vagelos is a graduate of the college and has served on the board of trustees for nearly two decades.
In Memoriam: Kerry Lynne Beldin, 1973-2022
Kerry Beldin, associate professor emerita of social work at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, died at her home on Wednesday, January 5. She was 48 years old and had suffered from lung cancer for six years. Dr. Beldin spent her early years in Nebraska, Iowa, and Kansas, and ultimately ended up staying in Nebraska where she […]
A Trio of Women Who Have Been Appointed to Named Professorships at Research Universities
The three women scholars who have been appointed to named professorships are Chiara Daraio at the California Institute of Technology, Bana Jabri at the University of Chicago, and Rebecca Hale at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Large Gender Disparities in the Funding of Doctoral Education
About one out of every five women who earned a doctorate paid for their degrees primarily from their own funds or savings. For men who earned doctorates in 2020, only 11.3 percent used their own funds or savings as the primary source for paying for their education. More than 29 percent of all women who earned doctorates in 2020 took out loans to fund their graduate education, compared to 19.8 percent of men.
In Memoriam: Joanne H. Clarey, 1941-2021
Joanne Clarey, a novelist, counselor, and educator who taught at the University of Maine and the Univerity of Southern Maine, died on November 2 at her home in Jackson, New Hampshire. She was 80 years old. A native of York, Pennsylvania, Dr. Clarey grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts. She earned a bachelor’s degree in English […]
In Memoriam: Zena Athene Stein, 1922-2021
Dr. Stein, professor emerita at the School of Public Health at Columbia University, and her late husband and longtime collaborator, Mervyn Susser, chair of epidemiology at Columbia from 1966 to 1978, were seminal figures in the establishment of the discipline of epidemiology.
Indiana University Acquires the Collection of Madeline Kripke, the “Dame of Dictionaries”
Madeline Kripke, known as the “Dame of Dictionaries,” kept a stockpile in her New York City apartment of more than 20,000 linguistic books and ephemera that was often referred to as the world’s largest and finest dictionary collection. She died in April 2020 of complications from COVID-19.
Two Women Professors Share the Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health
The Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health, which carries an honorarium of $150,000, is awarded annually the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation to recognize individuals whose contributions have made a profound and lasting impact in advancing the understanding of mental health and improving the lives of people who are living with mental illness.
University of Georgia Renames Its Institute of Higher Education for Louise McBee
Dr. McBee came to the University of Georgia in 1963 as the first dean of women and subsequently served as dean of students, assistant vice president for instruction, associate and senior associate vice president for academic affairs, and acting vice president for academic affairs. She retired fro the university in 1988 and three years later won a seat in the Georgia House of Representatives.
