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Mahzarin Rustum Banaji Awarded the NSF’s Atkinson Prize in Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
Mahzarin Rustum Banaji, the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University. The Atkinson Prize, given out by the National Science Foundation, comes with a $100,000 award.
Six Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Academic Roles
The six women who have been appointed to new academic posts are Andrea Richa at Arizona State University, Eleni Pellazgu at Berkeley College in New Jersey, Kirsten Pai Buick at the University of New Mexico, Fran Hagstrom at the University of Arkansas, Lisa A. Carey at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Jane Okech at the University of Vermont.
In Memoriam: Ann Elizabeth Koch Schonberger, 1940-2022
Ann Schonberger was a former professor and retired director of the University of Maine Women in the Curriculum and Women’s Studies program. She came to the University of Maine in 1971 and retired in 2013.
Study Finds Gender Bias My Be Impacting Decisions in Student Loan Bankruptcy Cases
Researchers examined nearly 900 student loan discharge decisions handled in U.S. bankruptcy courts between 1985 to 2020. They found that men were 93 percent more likely to have their loans discharged when disclosing a medical condition, as compared to women who disclosed medical conditions.
In Memoriam: Lisa Marie Goddard, 1966-2022
Dr. Goddard was a professor, senior research scientist, and former director of the International Research Institute for Climate and Society of Columbia University.
Hollylynne Lee Wins the $250,000 Cherry Award for Great Teaching From Baylor University
Hollylynne S. Lee is the Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Statistics Education at North Carolina State University. She was honored by Baylor University in Waco, Texas, for “her design and use of engaging technology tools that facilitate student learning of mathematics and statistics, as well her ability to inspire future teachers in these important fields.”
The Extent of Gender and Racial Bias in Academic Research
A new study of more than 5 million articles published between 2008 and 2019 — primarily by U.S.-based researchers found that Black, Latino, and women authors are underrepresented in many STEM fields and often appear as authors only in less-cited fields.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Study Led by Yale University Scholars Examines If Women Are Less Psychologically Resilient Than Men
Researchers surveyed more than 2,500 health care providers at the hospital during the first wave of COVID-19 infections in 2020. Although women were more likely than men to report symptoms of psychological distress, this difference was no longer significant after taking into account preexisting and concurrent stressors, which are more often experienced by women.
JoAnne Banducci Is the New Director of the University of Nevada Press
JoAnne Banducci joined the University of Nevada Press in 2009 as the business manager and has served as interim director of the press since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020. The press published 21 books in 2020 and 21 books in 2021.
In Memoriam: Sara McLanahan, 1940-2021
At Princeton Universsity, Professor McLanahan was the founding director of the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and a principal investigator of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a landmark longitudinal study that has for two decades followed nearly 5,000 children born to unwed parents between 1998 and 2000 in 20 large U.S. cities.
Disgusted by a Professor’s Remarks, Boise State University Senior Raises Funds for Women in STEM
After a faculty member stated that “making special efforts to recruit women into fields where they don’t seem to want to be” should cease, Ally Orr, a senior at Boise State, responded with a GoFundMe campaign that raised $70,000 for the Women in STEM, Medicine and Law Scholarship. The scholarship will help fund the education of women in these fields at Boise State this fall.
E. Elizabeth Magill to Serve as the Ninth President of the University of Pennsylvania
Professor Magill has been serving since 2019 as executive vice president and provost at the University of Virginia. Earlier, she was the Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and dean of Stanford Law School. Previously, she spent 15 years on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law. She is an expert on administrative law and constitutional structure.
In Workers Compensation Cases, Women Win More Money When Their Doctors Are Women
A new study from economics researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Illinois at Chicago showed that female claimants were 5 percent more likely to be evaluated as disabled and received about 8.5 percent more in cash benefits when the doctor assigned to their claim was female rather than male. There was no difference for male patients.
Ranking the States by the Percentage of Women Among Their Doctoral Degree Recipients
In Minnesota, women earned 919 doctorates compared to only 626 men. Thus. women earned nearly three firths of all doctorates awarded in the state in 2020, the highest percentage in the nation. In Wyoming, women made up only 34 percent of all doctorates awarded in the state in 2020, the lowest percentage in the nation.
In Memoriam: Carol Lani Guinier, 1950-2022
Lani Guinier was the first woman of color to be a tenured professor at Harvard Law School. Earlier, she taught for 10 years at the law school of the University of Pennsylvania.
Ohio State University Study Finds Women Sports Fans Rarely Attend Sporting Events
A new study by researchers at Ohio State University finds that American women who identify as passionate sports fans don’t watch or attend athletic events much more frequently than women who say they aren’t as interested in sports. “Sport is commonly assumed to be a masculine activity,” explains Frances Sutton a doctoral student in anthropology […]
President of Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania Abruptly Resigns
Cecilia M. McCormick, who became the first woman president of Elizabethtown College in July 2019, cited the time requirements associated with the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic during her brief tenure as president and her desire to focus on her personal and family life as the reasons for her departure.
Professor Darla Goeres of Montana State University Named Professor of the Year by ASTM International
ASTM International – formerly known as the American Society for Testing and Materials – is the primary organization that develops technical standards for a wide range of materials and other goods. Dr. Goeres was honored for her work developing standards for biofilms.
Study Finds Women Patients Were More Likely to Die After Surgery If Their Surgeon Was a Man
Researchers analyzed data on 1,320,108 patients who had surgeries between 2007 and 2019. In more than half of these cases, the sex of the surgeon was different than the sex of the patient. The vast majority of these cases were male surgeons operating on women patients. The results showed that women who had male surgeons were more likely to die, experience readmission, or complication within 30-days following surgery than women who had a woman surgeon.
Anita Allen Wins the American Philosophical Association’s Highest Honor for Service to Philosophy
Professor Allen is an internationally renowned expert on philosophical dimensions of privacy and data protection law, ethics, bioethics, legal philosophy, women’s rights, and diversity in higher education. In 2018-19, she was the first Black woman to serve as president of the American Philosophical Association.
Great Progress Has Been Made But Males Are Still More Likely to Be the Lead Characters in Children’s Books
In a study of children’s books over the past 60 years by scholars at Emory University in Atlanta and Princeton University in New Jersey, male protagonists outnumber female protagonists by a margin of 3 to 1. However, in the last decade, males outnumber females by just 1.2 to 1.
Stanford University Study Finds Women Academics Often Held Back Due to The Nature of Their Research
Analyzing nearly 1 million doctoral dissertations from U.S. universities over a recent 40-year period, a teams of researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education found that scholars who wrote about topics associated with women, or used methodologies associated with women, were less likely to go on to get senior faculty positions than those who did not.
In Memoriam: Shirley Ann Mathis McBay, 1935-2021
Shirley McBay enrolled in college at the age of 15. She earned a Ph.D. in mathematics at the University of Georgia and had a long academic career at Spelman College in Atlanta and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Study Suggests That Stress Endured by Pregnant Women May Alter the Genes of Their Children and Grandchildren
Veena Prahlad, an associate professor of biology at the University of Iowa, conducted research on roundworms and found that a mother roundworm release serotonin when she senses danger. The serotonin travels from her central nervous system to warn her unfertilized eggs, where the warning is stored, so to speak, and then passed to offspring after conception.
Andrea Talentino Will Be the Next President of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois
Dr. Talentino currently serves as provost of Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. Before arriving at Nazareth, Dr. Talentino served as the dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Norwich University in Vermont. Prior to that, she was an associate dean at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. She also has served on the faculty at Tulane University in New Orleans.
In Memoriam: Irene Julia Blanchard, 1934-2021
Irene Blanchard, a longtime faculty member at what was then Lyndon State College in Vermont, died on December 5 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. She was 87 years old. A native of Bennington, Vermont, Dr. Blanchard attended a rural one-school house for seven years. After graduating from high school, she attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New […]
In Memoriam: Mollie Rose Autry Molnar, 1931-2021
Mollie Rose Molnar was a former professor and chair of the department of music at what is now Missouri State University in Springfield. Both of her parents serve in the Arkansas House of Represenatives
Jinx Coleman Broussard of Louisiana State University Honored for Her Mentoring Work in Public Relations
Jinx Coleman Broussard, the Bart R. Swanson Endowed Memorial Professor in the Manship School of Mass Communication at Louisiana State Univerity, has been selected as the 2021 Bruce K. Berger Educator Honoree from the Plank Center for Leadership in Public Relations. The center is housed at the University of Alabama.
Betül Kaçar Honored by the International Society of the Study of the Origin of Life
Dr. Kaçar’s research program explores the origins of life, the biology of early Earth, and how understanding life’s emergence and early mechanisms may assist finding life beyond Earth. In addition, she directs a new NASA-funded multimillion-dollar astrobiology research consortium focusing on the evolution of element use in biology across geologic time.
Oregon State University Research Finds Water Births Are Just as Safe As Traditional Births
Water birth is offered in some hospitals in the U.S. but is much rarer here than in most developed countries around the world. Only 1.5 percent of people in the U.S. give birth outside of a hospital, and about half of these elect to have a water birth. The results showed that water births were associated with lower risks for several maternal outcomes, including 64 fewer hemorrhages per 10,000 births, and 28 fewer hospitalizations in the first six weeks.
Yale Physicist Honored for Her Study of Fast Radio Bursts From Distant Galaxies
Yale physicist Laura Newburgh is participating on the research team of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). The research group is the winner of the 2022 Lancelot M. Berkeley – New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. The American Astronomical Society has presented the Berkeley Prize since 2011.
A Scholar of International Terrorism Will Be the First Woman President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York
Since 2016, Louise Richardson has been the vice chancellor of the University of Oxford in England. Earlier, she was the first woman to serve as principal and vice-chancellor of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Dr. Richardson served on the faculty at Harvard University for 20 years and was the executive dean of Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She will begin her leadership of the Carnegie Corporation in January 2023.
Survey Finds the Pandemic Changed Single People’s Attitudes About Relationships
A new survey by Singles in America identifies changing attitudes on what is important to unmarried men and women when they are seeking a partner. This year, for the first time ever in the survey’s history, there was a drop in singles’ preference for physical attractiveness. Only 78 percent of survey respondents said they wanted a partner who was physically attractive compared to 90 percent in the previous survey.
