Marilyn Nelson, professor emerita at the University of Connecticut, will be honored with the 2012 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. She was honored for “her distinguished lifetime service to American poetry.” Professor Nelson will receive the award and deliver the Frost Lecture at the annual awards ceremony of the Poetry Society of America in New York City in April.
Professor Nelson taught in the English department at the University of Connecticut from 1978 to 2002. In 2004 she founded the Soul Mountain Retreat in East Haddam, Connecticut, a nonprofit organization that provided writers from around the world an environment where they could concentrate on their craft. The retreat closed in 2010.
Professor Nelson served as poet laureate of the state of Connecticut from 2001 to 2006. Currently, she is the poet-in-residence at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in New York City.
Lydia Quarles, a senior policy analyst at the John C. Stennis Institute of Government and an assistant professor of political science and public administration at Mississippi State University, received the 2012 Joan Fill Bishop Award from the American Society for Public Administration. Quarles will be honored next month at the society’s national conference in Las Vegas. The award is being given in recognition of professor Quarles’ work to increase women’s participation in the field of public administration.
Sarah Lyon, professor of anthropology at the University of Kentucky, was named editor of the Anthropology of Work Review. Her appointment is effective July 1. The journal is published by the Society for the Anthropology of Work, a division of the American Anthropological Association.
Betty Leydon, vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Princeton University, has announced that she is retiring at the end of the academic year. She has served in the CIO post for the past decade. Previously, she was CIO at Duke University and executive director for computing and information services at the University of New Hampshire.
Sandra M. Flake has resigned as provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University at Chico. She has served in these positions since 2007. Previously, she was provost at the University of West Florida in Pensacola. Dr. Flake will return to teaching in the CalState-Chico English department.
Davidson College, the highly rated liberal arts college in Davidson, North Carolina, has promoted five faculty members to full professor. Two of the five scholars are women.
Vivian Dietz was named full professor of history. She first joined the Davidson faculty in 1990. Since 1991, she has directed the college’s summer study program at Cambridge University where 20 students from Davidson spend six weeks in England and take courses in history or English.
Gayle Kaufman was appointed professor of sociology. She joined the Davidson faculty in 1999 and has served as chair of the sociology department since 2006. She is currently finishing her first book, Superdads: Fathers’ Struggles and Strategies for Balancing Work and Family in the 21st Century.
Alcorn State University in Mississippi announced that Myrlie Evers-Williams will be appointed scholar-in-residence at the university later this month.
Joanne P. Robinson was named the inaugural dean of the new School of Nursing at Rutgers University-Camden in New Jersey. She has been serving as interim dean since the new nursing school was approved last summer. Previously, she was chair of the department of nursing at the university. The new School of Nursing plans to add master’s degree programs in clinical specialties and a doctoral program.
Ann McKenna was named chair of the departments of engineering and engineering technology at Arizona State University’s College of Technology and Innovation. Before joining the faculty at Arizona State, Dr. McKenna was a program officer at the National Science Foundation and served on the faculty at Northwestern University.
Susan G. Polansky was reappointed to chair the department of modern languages at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Gwynn M. Powell, an associate professor of recreation and leisure studies at the University of Georgia, was presented with the Excellence in Teaching Award from the National Recreation and Park Association.
Martine LaBerge, professor and chair of the department of bioengineering at Clemson University in South Carolina, has received the inaugural Award for Service from the Society of Biomaterials. Dr. LaBerge’s research involves the study of natural and artificial surfaces used in the design of implants for orthopedic and vascular treatments.
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, the O’Neill Family Professor of Philosophy and a concurrent professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, was the recipient of the Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award from the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. She was honored for her lifetime of work on global public health problems and pollution-related environmental justice.
Amy Locklear Hertel was appointed director of the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her appointment is effective on May 1. Currently, she is a project manager at the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis.
Kimberly de los Santos was named director of the Pace Center for Civil Engagement at Princeton University. She will assume her new duties on April 1. For the past 10 years she has been the director of community outreach initiatives at Arizona State University.
Stefanie Baker-Watson was named the Theodore Katula Director of Athletics and Recreational Sports at DePauw Univerity in Greencastle, Indiana. She is the former assistant athletics director at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Previously, she was head athletic trainer and instructor of physical education at Aurora University.
Jane Jordan was appointed interim vice president of governmental and community affairs at Emory University in Atlanta. She has been serving as deputy general counsel and chief counsel for health affairs at the university.
Jennifer Gigliotti is the new associate dean at the Glasscock School of Continuing Studies at Rice University. She has been serving as executive director of the Center for College Readiness at the university.
Akua J. Matherson was named interim associate chancellor for enrollment management at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro. She will continue to serve as assistant vice chancellor for budget and planning at the university.
Stacey Wiley is the new administrative director of career development at the State University of New York at Geneseo. She was vice president of Upstate College Planning Services. She previously has held administrative posts at Syracuse University, Quinnipiac University, and Cornell University.
Callie Caldwell was named public interest counselor at the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis. In this role she will help students comply with their mandatory pro bono requirements.
Francine Berman, professor of computer science and vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, was appointed co-chair of the Board on Research Data and Information of the National Academy of Sciences.
Ann Weaver Hart, who had previously announced that she was stepping down as president of Temple University in Philadelphia at the end of the year, was named as the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Arizona. She has served a Temple’s first woman president for the past six years.
The University of Phoenix was established in 1976 to serve the needs of nontraditional college students, many of whom worked fulltime and wanted to take classes at night and on weekends. Today, the university has 200 locations throughout the United States and many degree programs are available online. Total enrollments at the University of Phoenix reached as high as 600,000 students but there has been a significant drop during the recent recession.
Bethel College in North Newton, Kansas, has reported that the estate of two alumnae has made a major gift to the college. Dorothea and Ruth Franzen, who were sisters, both had long careers in the academic world.
The board of trustees of the State University of New York has formulated a plan to increase efforts to support women-owned business enterprises in the procurement of goods and services for the university system. Under the new plan, the university has set a goal to have 20 percent of all goods and services purchased through women- or minority-owned firms.
The AAUW in conjunction with Running Start, an organization seeking to increase the number of women who run for political office, has mounted the Elect Her-Campus Women Win program. The program seeks to increase the number of women running for student government posts in the hope that these women will run for elective office after they graduate from college.
Elizabeth Candon, the former president of the now-closed Trinity College in Burlington, Vermont, died from pulmonary fibrosis earlier this month. She was 90 years old.
Western Michigan University in Kalmazoo has announced that three members of its faculty are finalists for the post of associate dean of the university’s Lee Honors College. The three finalists are giving presentations on campus this week. One of the three finalists is a woman.
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Canadian Mennonite University in Winnipeg, Manitoba, has announced that Cheryl Pauls will become the institution’s second president on November 1. Dr. Pauls is currently a professor of piano and music theory at the university.
The University of Iowa agreed to a $130,000 settlement of a lawsuit filed by a former student who claimed that the university did not mount an adequate response after it learned that a professor was sexually harassing women students.
Jean S. Calhoun, associate vice president emerita of academic affairs at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, died last week at her home in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She was 84 years old.
Many students on the campus of the University of Connecticut are upset over the airing of a video on the student-run television station. The video, part of a series called Shenanigans, shows a young woman being pursued by a man. The woman, who fears she will be raped, accesses the university’s “Blue Light” emergency call box system in an attempt to get help. The voices on the other end of the system call the woman derogatory names such as “stinky bitch” and “dumb blond bitch” and complain about women “always crying about being raped.”
Drexel University in Philadelphia received a major grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to support its Executive Leadership in Academic Technology and Engineering (ELATE) program. The goal of the program is to increase the number of women in senior faculty posts in science and engineering in universities across the United States. The grant will be used to develop an evaluation system to measure which components of the ELATE program are the most useful in achieving the program’s goals.
The Texas Woman’s University Foundation received a $100,000 grant from an anonymous donor to support the Women Airforce Service Pilots archival collection at the university. The WASPs were a group of women pilots who flew military transports during World War II. The Blagg-Huey Library at Texas Woman’s University is home to the group’s official archives. More information on the archives is available 
Camilla Williams, professor emerita at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University, died from complications of cancer earlier this week in Bloomington, Indiana. She was 92 years old.
Ann Coyne, professor at the Grace Abbot School of Social Work at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, has been selected to receive the National Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Association of Social Workers. The NASW is the largest organization of social work professionals in the world with over 150,000 members. Professor Coyne will honored in Washington at the organization’s leadership meeting in April for her more than 50 years in the field of social work.
Janet Davison Rowley, the Blum-Riese Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine, Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago, has been selected to receive the Japan Prize for Healthcare and Medical Technology. She will be honored for “significant contributions to society by achieving momentus scientific and technological breakthroughs in creating and promoting new technologies for medical diagnosis and treatment.” Specifically, Dr. Rowley was honored for her work in the development of the anti-cancer drug, Gleevac. The drug has become highly effective in the treatment of leukemia and has few side effects.
Maryalice Jordan-Marsh, associate professor of the School of Social Work of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, received the Book of the Year Award from the American Journal of Nursing. Professor Jordan-Marsh was honored for her book, 
Dorsey Kendrick, president of Gateway Community College in New Haven, Connecticut, received the 2012 Liberty Bell Award presented by The Foundation of the New Haven County Bar. The award is given to individuals and organizations for outstanding service to the greater New Haven community.
Donna E. Shalala, president of the University of Miami, was selected to receive the 2012 Jay Malina Award from the Beacon Council. The award is given to executives who have made a significant contribution to the prosperity of the greater Miami metropolitan area. President Shalala will be presented with the award in April.
Susan R. Loepp, professor of mathematics at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has been selected to receive the 2012 Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics from the Mathematical Association of America.
Lesley M. Wheeler, the Henry S. Fox Jr. Professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, has been chosen for the 2012 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. She will receive her award in Richmond, later this month.
Eugenia Weiss, clinical assistant professor at the School of Social Work of the University of Southern California, will receive the International Award for Excellence from the International Journal of Health, Wellness, and Society. Dr. Weiss will receive the award in Chicago this March. She was honored for her paper, “The Influence of Military Culture and Veteran Worldviews on Mental Health Treatment.”
Augustana College in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, has named Susan S. Hasseler as senior vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college. Her appointment is effective at the end of the academic year. She will be the first woman to serve as dean in the 151-year history of the college.
Lisa Rapport was named associate editor of the Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology. Dr. Rapport is a professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts at Wayne State University in Detroit.
Jeanie O’Hare, a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company, has been appointed chair of the department of playwriting at the Yale School of Drama. O’Hare has been with the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2005. Previously, she was literary manager for the Hampstead Theatre.
January Gill O’Neil was appointed assistant professor of English at Salem State University and executive director of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival, which is held in Salem, Massachusetts. O’Neil is the author of a book of poetry entitled, 
Diane Swanson was named to the Edgerley Family Chair in Business Administration at Kansas State University. The appointment is effective on July 1. Currently she is a professor of management in the university’s College of Business Administration.
Elena Grigorenko is the inaugural Emily Fraser Beede Associate Professor for Development Disabilities at Yale University. Dr. Grigorenko joined the Yale faculty a decade ago and is affiliated with the department of psychology, the department of epidemiology, and the Yale Child Study Center.
Wendy C. Crone was named associate dean for graduate education at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is a professor of engineering physics and has been serving as interim associate dean of physical sciences at the Graduate School.
Ruth Kohorn Rosenberg was appointed faculty ombudsperson at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Her appointment is effective February 22. She has been serving as director of student mediation in the Office of Student Citizenship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Roger Williams University.
Jennifer Frum was named vice president for public service and outreach at the University of Georgia. She has been serving in the post on an interim basis since last July. Previously she was interim director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the university.
Megan Govindan, assistant professor of human nutrition and foods at West Virginia University, was named director of the university’s Didactic Program in Dietetics.
Linda Bonnin was named interim vice president for communications, public relations, and marketing at the University of Memphis. She joined the university staff in 1997 and has been serving as associate vice president since 1999.
Margareth Larose-Pierre was appointed associate dean of the Crestview Educational Center of the Florida A&M University College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. She has served on the FAMU faculty for the past 13 years.
Jane Sojka, associate professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati, has been named director of the university’s Sales Center in the Lindner College of Business. The center offers a professional sales minor for students in any major who want to add a sales credential to their degree program.
Last spring, the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of Education announced that it was launching an investigation of Yale University’s response to allegations of sexual harassment on its campus. A group of 16 Yale students had claimed that members of a Yale fraternity marched through campus chanting derogatory slogans targeting women. The women claimed that Yale’s response was inadequate and, as a result, a sexually hostile environment existed on campus.