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Claire Jiménez Wins Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Dr. Jiménez, an assistant professor of English at the University of North Carolina, was honored for her novel, What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez.
Six Women Academics Awarded Endowed Faculty Positions
Newwly appointed to endowed chairs are Naima Kaabouch at the University of North Dakota, Emily Barrett at Rutgers University, Jenn Jacobs at Northern Illinois University, Jessica Fay at Oklahoma City University, Kristin Goss at Duke University, and Mila Getmansky Sherman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
In Memoriam: Carole Falcon-Chandler, 1939-2024
Falcon-Chandler served Aaniiih Nakoda College, a tribal college located on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, for nearly three decades. She served as dean of students for eight years, followed by 20 years as president.
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.
Heather Bruce Satrom Honored for Her Innovative Project Documenting Stories of Immigrant Students
Satrom teaches non-native speakers of English in the English Language for Academic Purposes program at Montgomery College in Maryland. The American Association of Community Colleges has recognized her for her innovative project documenting experiences of immigrant and refugee students.
In Memoriam: Faith Ringgold, 1930-2024
Ringgold was a mixed media artist, best known for her narrative quilts which centered around African American and women’s representation. She was a professor emerita of art with the University of California San Diego where she taught for 15 years.
Kat Gutierrez Honored for Contributions to Community Engagement in Pajaro Valley, California
Dr. Gutierrez, an assistant professor of history at the University of of California, Santa Cruz, was honored for her contributions to the community-based project, Watsonville is in the Heart, which focuses on the history of Filipino migration and labor in the Pajaro Valley region.
In Memoriam: Bertha Maxwell-Roddey, 1930-2024
In 1970, Dr. Maxwell-Roddey became the second African-American to be hired as a full-time faculty member at the University of North Carolina Charlotte. One year later, she became the founding director of the university’s Africana studies department.
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.
Columbia Professor Anne Bogart Awarded for Lifetime Achievement in Non-Profit Theatre Production
Anne Bogart, professor of theatre at Columbia University and co-artistic director of the SITI Company in New York City, has been honored for her over five decades of contributions to non-profit theatre.
Oregon State University Study Explores the Evolution of Women’s Representation in Gun Advertisements
Researchers from Oregon State University have examined the evolution of women’s representation in gun advertisements and how gun marketing strategies have contributed to the recent rise in American women’s gun ownership.
Georgia State University Launches Program to Support Black Women in Tech
“This started off as listening to our students, talking to our students, seeing what they wanted and what they were feeling. We realized that they feel like they don’t belong in their classes,” said Georgia State University professor Dr. Anu Bourgeois.
Rachel Sagner Buurma and Laura Heffernan Receive Teaching Literature Book Award
“The Teaching Archive: A New History for Literary Study” examines historical English teaching practices in an effort to provide an accurate account of the discipline’s history.
Kimberly Lau Named Provost for Two Residential Colleges at the University of California Santa Cruz
College Nine and John R. Lewis College at the University of California Santa Cruz have selected Kimberly Lau, professor of literature, for the provost position, a role she has held in the interim since the start of this academic year.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Rebecca Cunningham Appointed President of the University of Minnesota
Dr. Cunningham joins the University of Minnesota after more than two decades of service at the University of Michigan, where she currently serves as vice president for research and innovation and professor in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine.
Study Finds Women May Receive More Health Benefits From Exercise Than Men
“[Exercise] is an incredibly powerful way to live healthier and longer,” says Dr. Susan Cheng of the Smidt Heart Institute. “Women on average tend to exercise less than men and hopefully these findings inspire more women to add extra movement to their lives.”
Florida Southern College President Anne Kerr Announces Her Retirement
“It has been an honor and great blessing to serve as president of what I consider to be the finest small college in the nation,” said Dr. Anne Kerr, who will retire from her presidency at the end of this academic year.
Study Finds Virtually No Increase in Women’s Representation in STEM Characters in Television and Film Over the Past Five Years
The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media builds on their previous study analyzing women’s representation in STEM characters in entertainment, finding that only 38 percent of on-screen STEM characters from 2018 to 2022 were women.
Nancy Cantor Named President of Hunter College in New York
Dr. Cantor says she is “eager to collaborate with communities across New York City to highlight how higher education can answer the call of what the public needs, now and going forward.”
Northern Michigan University Appoints Anne Dahlman Provost
Anne Dahlman, interim associate provost and interim dean of global education at Minnesota State University Mankato, has been appointed provost and vice president of academic affairs at Northern Michigan University effective April 1, 2024.
Bernadine Marie Hernandez Receives Three Literary Awards for New Book
Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands has earned author Bernadine Marie Hernández two Book of the Year awards and an honorable mention from three national literary associations.
Study Finds Differing Beliefs About Feminism Between Men and Women Under 30
Researchers from King’s College London have found young men and women in the United Kingdom are divided on the value of feminism in today’s society and going forward.
United States Department of Agriculture Honors Ozzie Abaye for Excellence in Teaching
Ozzie Abaye, the Thomas B. Hutcheson Jr. Professor of Agronomy at Virginia Tech, has received with the 2023 Excellence in College and University Teaching Award for Food and Agricultural Sciences. Dr. Abaye states, “Teaching is not what I do for a living, but what I do to live.”
Mississippi University for Women Changes Course on Name Change
In January, the Mississippi University for Women announced that it was changing its name to Mississippi Brightwell University. Many alumni were upset with the name change because it did not reflect what the university is typically called: The W. So now the university has decided that it will now be called Wynbridge State University of Mississippi.
In Memoriam: Pauline Adams, 1922-2024
Former Michigan State University professor Pauline Gordon Adams passed away on January 16. She was 101 years old.
In Memoriam: Margaret Hammond Dornish, 1934-2023
Dr. Dornish joined the faculty at Pomona College in 1969. When she began at Pomona, Dr. Dornish was among a handful of women faculty and the lone female instructor in a building that did not have a women’s bathroom.
Association of Women in Mathematics Honors Baylor University’s Trena Wilkerson
Trena Wilkerson, a professor of mathematics education at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, received the Louise Hay Award from the Association for Women in Mathematics.
The First Woman Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy
Yvette Davids, a native of San Antonio, Texas, is the academy’s 65th superintendent and the first woman to serve in the role. Davis was acting commander of Naval Surface Forces for the U.S. Pacific Command, based in San Diego.
Study Shows That Girls’ and Women’s Sports Are More Popular Than Most People Realize
In August 2023, 92,003 packed the football stadium on the campus of the University of Nebraska to view a women’s volleyball match. This is generally considered to be the largest crowd to ever watch a women’s sporting event. This is just one sign that women’s sports in the U.S. are becoming increasingly popular.
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.
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.
Salem College for Women Participating in Program to Help Student Teachers Gain Licensure
Students accepted into the program receive a stipend of $43,000 during the period when they are completing their student teaching requirements as part of a $4.7 million grant program. Each higher education institution focuses on a different licensure area, and for Salem College, its focus is on elementary educators.
Brown University Doctoral Student Wins the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award
Each year, the American Library in Paris Book Award recognizes a title, published originally in English, “that best realizes new and intellectually significant ideas about France, the French people or encounters with French culture.” Katherine Chen, a doctoral student in English at Brown University is the youngest person and first Asian American to receive the honor.
Mississippi State University Scholar Honored for Community Engagement by the PCI Foundation
Alexis Gregory, an associate professor in the School of Architecture at Mississippi State University, is the recipient of the 2023 Community Engagement Award from the Chicago-based Precast Concrete Industry Foundation. Since 2001, the PCI Foundation has focused on providing curriculum development grants to schools of architecture, engineering and construction management.
