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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.
In Memoriam: Claire Mintzer Fagin, 1926-2024
Before becoming interim president of the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, Dr. Fagin was dean of the Nursing School at the university for 15 years. During her time as dean, the university’s nursing program rose to the No. 1 ranking nationwide and tripled its enrollments.
Four Women Appointed to Endowed Chairs at the University of Illinois
The new endowed chairs include Klara Nahrstedt, a professor of computer science, D. Fairchild Ruggles, a professor of landscape architecture, Cynthia Oliver, a professor of dance, and Chrystalla Mouza, a professor and dean of the College of Education.
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.
How Perinatal Depression Impacts the Long-Term Health of Mothers
Women with perinatal depression have a doubled risk of mortality compared to those without, with the risk peaking in the month after diagnosis and persisting for up to 18 years. The risk was highest for the women diagnosed with postpartum depression.
Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Provost Positions
Newly appointed to provost positions are Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, Anne Dahlman at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, and Diana McGill at Northern Kentucky University.
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.
New Collaborative Launches Long-Term Study of Women’s Health
The National Institutes of Health, Apple, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health have announced a research partnership for a major long-term study of women’s health. The collaboration will permit researchers to study conditions including pregnancy, infertility, polycystic ovary syndrome, menopausal transition, and osteoporosis.
Six Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Laura Godfrey Honored by the American Association of Biological Anthropologists
Dr. Godfrey, professor emerita of anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has conducted research in numerous areas, including primate evolution, paleobiology, functional morphology, evolutionary ecology, and extinction.
Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Chairs
Liliya Yatsunyk was appointed to the James H. Hammons Chair of Chemistry at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Tara Zahra was appointed the Hanna Holborn Gray Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago and Sonya Grier was named to the Eminent Scholar Chair in Marketing at the Kogod School of Business of American University in Washington, D.C.
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.
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.
Gender Differences in Workplace Fatalities
New statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that in 2022, 5,486 American workers died after suffering injuries while working. Women made up 8.1 percent of all workplace fatalities but accounted for 15.3 percent of homicides at work in 2022.
Study Finds Church Congregations Are Largely Unsupportive of Working Women
A new study from Rice University’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance finds that working women do not feel supported by their clergy and churches, regardless of whether they’re involved with a more conservative or liberal congregation.
Gender Disparities in Drug Side Effects May Not Be Due to Biology
More than half of Americans routinely take prescription or over-the-counter drugs, but women tend to experience side effects at up to twice the rate of men. The difference historically has been chalked up to biological sex differences, but new research from Harvard’s GenderSci Lab debunks that view.
In Memoriam: Colleen J. McElroy, 1935-2023
In 1983, Dr. McElroy became the first Black woman to serve as a full-time faculty member at the University of Washington. From 1995 to 2007, Professor McElroy served as editor of The Seattle Review, a literary magazine based at the university.
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 University’s Pamela Smith Honored by the American Historical Association
Pamela H. Smith is the recipient of the George L. Mosse Prize from the American Historical Association. The prize is awarded annually for an outstanding major work of extraordinary scholarly distinction, creativity, and originality in the intellectual and cultural history of Europe since the Renaissance.
Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions
Rina Williams was named dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of Cincinnati. René Sawyer is the new dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Greenville Technical College in South Carolina and Susan Pepin has been named inaugural dean of the Oxley College of Health and Natural Sciences at the University of Tulsa.
The Top Women Scientists in the World
The second edition of Research.com ranking of top female scientists in the world is based on data acquired from a wide range of bibliometric sources. This ranking of best female scientists in the world comprises the leading female scientists from all key areas of science.
Study Finds That Alcohol Intoxication Does Not Impact Women’s Ability to Recall a Sexual Assault
Acute alcohol intoxication has a significant impact on criminal proceedings, with up to 80 percent of victims reported to have been alcohol intoxicated when their attack occurred. During trials, victims’ accounts will often be contested if they were intoxicated.
How Women Deal With Potentially Discriminatory Behavior at Work When They Are Not Sure
A new study led by Laura Doering, an associate professor of strategic management at the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto, finds that women often feel emotional distress when they experience a potentially discriminatory incident at work but cannot classify it conclusively.
Claudine Gay Resigns as President of Harvard University
Dr. Gay had served as president of Harvard University for only six months. She was the first African American and the second woman to lead Harvard in its nearly 400-year history.
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.
Belinda Edmondson Wins Book Award From the Modern Language Association
The Modern Language Association of America announced it is awarding its first annual Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for African Studies to Belinda Edmondson, Distinguished Professor in the departments of English and Africana studies at Rutgers University-Newark.
Columbia University’s Lila Abu-Lughold Honored With Lifetime Achievement in Feminist Anthropology
Dr. Abu-Lughod’s work, strongly ethnographic and mostly based in Egypt, has focused on three broad issues: the relationship between cultural forms and power; the politics of knowledge and representation; and the dynamics of women’s and human rights, global liberalism, and feminist governance of the Muslim world.
A Trio of Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Chairs
The three women scholars who have been apoointed to endowed professorships are Monica Prasad at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Kara Spiller at Drexel University in Philadelphia, and Karen Flynn at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Three Women Who Are Taking on New Roles as Diversity Officers
The three women appointed to diversity positions in higher education are Sydney M. Savion at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Michelle Manno at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and Sheryl R. Wilson at Bethel College in Newton, Kansas.
Young Men Are Largely Responsible for the Overall Drop in College Enrollments
A new study from the Pew Research Center finds that college enrollment among young Americans has been declining gradually over the past decade. Much of this decline is because of lower enrollments of men at four-year colleges and universities. Today, men represent only 42 percent of students ages 18 to 24 at four-year schools, down from 47 percent in 2011.
Gender Differences in Teacher Attrition Rates at K-12 Schools in the United States
In public schools women teachers were more likely than men to move to a different school and were more likely than men to leave the teaching profession. At private schools, the opposite was true.
Do Women Respond Differently Than Men to Performance Critiques?
Using a controlled experiment, Dr. Maria Kogelnik of Yale University found that men are 10 percentage points more likely to continue engaging in difficult tasks when exposed to performance feedback than women who did equally well and received identical feedback. She concluded that men and women may differ in how they interpret critiques.
In Memoriam: Natalie Zemon Davis,1928-2023
Dr. Davis, a 2003 recipient of the National Humanities Medal, joined Princeton’s faculty in 1978 and transferred to emeritus status in 1996. She directed the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies from 1990 to 1994 and was a founder of the Program in Women’s Studies
Four Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to New Positions
Taking on new roles are Renee Robinson at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, Penny Castellano at Emory University in Atlanta, Julie Simmons Ivy at the Universuty of Michigan, and Deborah Cohen at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
A Trio of Women Scholars Who Have Been Named to Endowed Chairs
Orit Bashkin has been named the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. Ruth Blake was appointed the Edward P. Bass Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale University and Paz Galupo is the Audre Lorde Distinguished Professor in Sexual Health & Education during a ceremony at Washington University in St. Louis.
