Here is this week’s roundup of women professors who have been appointed to new positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].

Edda Fields-Black of Carnegie Mellon University and Kathleen DuVal of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have received 2025 Pulitzer Prizes in History,. Marie Howe of Sarah Lawrence College has won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry

The new deans are Stephanie Pilat, Courtney Catledge, Kala Burrell-Craft, Marieke Van Puymbroeck, Jean VanderGheynst, Marty Sexton, Sarah Jane Rhoads, and Melissa E. Trego.

A clinical assistant professor at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine, Dr. Fejzo was recently honored for her discovery of the cause of one of the most severe forms of morning sickness during pregnancy. She has researched the condition for more than two decades.