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The University of Vermont has announced five finalists to be the next president of the university. One of the five candidates is a woman.
Anne E. Zayaitz is the new dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania. Dr. Zayaitz has been on the faculty at Kutztown since 1985. At that time she was the only woman member of the biology department faculty. Since 2009 she has served as associate dean.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Institute Professor Emerita of Physics and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was announced by President Obama as the winner of the Enrico Fermi Award. The award includes a $50,000 prize and a gold medal. She is being honored for research in condensed matter physics and for her efforts as a mentor and an advocate for women in science.
Elizabeth M. Brumfiel, a professor of anthropology at Northwestern University, died earlier this month at the age of 66. She was a leading scholar of Aztec archaeology. For 20 years, she and her students conducted archaeological research in Xaltocan, Mexico, the capital of a small pre-Columbian kingdom.
On February 29, Linda S. Bowman is stepping down as president of the Community College of Aurora in Colorado. Last year, President Bowman announced that she will join the faculty at the College of Education of the University of Denver in the fall of 2012. But she has hastened her departure from the Community College of Aurora due to a Fulbright Specialists Award from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and the U.S. State Department which will take her to Hong Kong to consult on higher education policy issues.
The University of Hawaii at Manoa has announced four finalists for the position of dean of the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. The new dean will also be director for Research and Cooperative Extension at the university. One of the four finalists is a woman.
Grace Gredys Harris, professor emerita of anthropology and religion at the University of Rochester, died late last month at the age of 85. Her research focused on the rituals of the Taita people of Kenya. She authored the book Casting Out Anger: Religion Among the Taita of Kenya (Cambridge University Press).
Elisabetta Ullu, professor of internal medicine and cell biology at Yale University School of Medicine, received the inaugural Alice and C.C. Wang Award from the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Professor Ullu was honored for her research in molecular parasitology relating to African sleeping sickness.
Two women have been selected to receive the Presidential Achievement Award from the Association of American Geographers.
Dawn Wright, a professor of geography and oceanography at Oregon State University in Corvallis, is an expert in geographic information systems. She is affectionately known on campus as Deepsea Dawn for her work on mapping the ocean floor. She is currently on a two-year leave of absence from the university to serve as chief scientist for the Environmental Systems Research Institute, a leading GIS software firm.
Laura Pulido is professor of American studies and ethnicity at the University of Southern California. Professor Pulido’s research focuses on race, political activism, and ethnic studies. She studies how various groups experience racial and class oppression, how these experiences differ among particular communities of color, and how they mobilize politically.
Eranthie Weerapana, assistant professor of chemistry at Boston College, has received two awards that come with accompanying grants.
Bevlee Watford, associate dean for academic affairs at the College of Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, has been selected to receive the 2012 President’s Award from the National Association of Multicultural Engineering Program Advocates. She will accept the award at the association’s annual meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona, later this month.
Nalini Nadkarni, professor of biology and director of the Center for Science and Math Education at the University of Utah received the Public Engagement With Science Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She was honored for “her unique, persistent and innovative public engagement activities that have served to raise awareness of environmental and conservation issues with a broad and exceedingly diverse audience.”
Jane Grande-Allen, associate professor of bioengineering at Rice University in Houston, received the Established Investigator Award from the American Heart Association. The award comes with a five-year research grant for Dr. Grande-Allen to continue her work on the study of heart valves.
Paula Rae Heusinkveld, professor emerita of Spanish at Clemson University in South Carolina, received the Nelson Brooks Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Professor Heusinkveld taught at Clemson for 29 years before retiring last June.
Deborah K. Steinberg, a professor at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, was honored by being selected to give the Sverdrup Lecture at the meeting of the ocean sciences section of the American Geophysical Union. Being designated to give lecture is one of the highest honors bestowed by the group. She will give the Sverdrup lecture in February in Salt Lake City.
Jean Langenheim, professor emerita of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California Santa Cruz, was awarded honorary membership in Sigma Delta Epsilon, an honorary society of graduate women in science.
Susan Henry, professor of molecular biology and genetics at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, received the 2012 Distinguished Service Citation, the highest honor bestowed by the New York State Agricultural Society. Dr. Henry is also the Ronald P. Lych Dean Emerita of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.
Marsha Glines, dean of the Institute for Achievement and Learning at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, has been selected to receive the 2012 Lewis Hine Award for Service to Children and Youth from the National Child Labor Committee. She will be presented the award in New York City on January 30.
Bonnie Diehl was named provost and chief academic officer of the SANS Technology Institute. The SANS (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) Institute was established in 1989 as a cooperative research and education organization. An affiliate, the SANS Technology Institute, based in Bethesda, Maryland, now offers master’s degree programs in information security.
Karen Gross, the president of Southern Vermont College in Bennington, is taking a leave of absence from the academic world to serve as senior policy adviser at the U.S. Department of Education in Washington. In her advisory role, she will focus on issues in higher education, including access, affordability, and programmatic quality.
Marylynn V. Yates is the new dean of the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of California at Riverside. Dr. Yates joined the faculty at the university in 1987 and has served in several administrative roles including the chair of the department of environmental sciences. Her research focuses on the transmission of human pathogenic microorganisms, particularly in water and wastewater.
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein was named a visiting professor of philosophy at the New College of the Humanities in London. The school is planning to start classes this coming September.
Teri Britt Pipe was appointed dean of the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University. She has been serving as interim dean and has been an adjunct professor at the university since 2002. Dr. Pipe also served as director of nursing research and innovation and associate professor of nursing at the College of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic.
Deborah Bushway was named vice president for academic innovation at Capella University in Minneapolis. Since March 2011, she has been serving as interim president of the university. Previously, she was vice president of academic affairs and provost. Before coming to Capella University, she was a full professor of psychology at Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Gretchen E. Buhlig was named vice president for leadership giving at the Arizona State University Foundation. She was associate vice president of institutional advancement at A.T. Still University in Mesa, Arizona.
Laura E. Hubbard has been appointed vice president for finance and administration at the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York System. Her appointment is effective February 27. She has been serving as associate vice president for budget and finance at the University of Oregon. She has previously held finance posts at the University of Idaho and Washington State University.
Angela Throneberry is the new senior vice president for administration and finance at New Mexico State University. She has been serving in the post on an interim basis.
Each year the Penn State campus in Erie invites scores of seventh and eighth grade girls from 40 schools in northwestern Pennsylvania to its Math Options Career Day. The girls spend the day building motors, designing bridges, and participating in science experiments. Penn State Erie faculty and area professionals participate in Math Option Career Day. The goal of the program is to encourage these girls to pursue a science-oriented curriculum in high school so that they will be prepared to take STEM courses in college.
The National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT), in conjunction with Microsoft Research, announced that five colleges and universities will receive NCWIT Academic Alliance Seed Fund grants for initiatives aimed to develop and implement programs for recruiting or retaining women in computing and technology disciplines.
The American Society of Women Accountants (ASWA) has entered into a partnership with Herzing University that will give members of the ASWA access to university educational programs at discounted rates. Under the terms of the agreement, ASWA members will not have to pay an enrollment fee and will get a 5 percent reduction in tuition payments.
Deneese L. Jones was appointed provost at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. She will take her new position on June 1. She currently serves as dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Previously, she was a professor and administrator at the University of Kentucky for 15 years.
A new diversity report at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, shows that women make up 22.5 percent of all full professors at the university. This is up only slightly from 20.5 percent during the 2006-07 academic year. A statement in the report said, “The committee recommends further investigation of the reasons for the low percentage of full professor female faculty.”
Julia Buckingham was named the next vice-chancellor and principal at Brunel University in London. She is the first woman to serve in the position, which is the equivalent of a university president in the United States. She will assume the post on October 1.
Beth Ann Swan was named dean of the Jefferson School of Nursing at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Dr. Swan joined the faculty at the school in 2005 and has served as interim dean since July 2011. She is the past president of the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing. She is the coauthor of the 2008 book, 
From time to time, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. The links presented direct the reader to articles from many different points of view that deal with issues of women in higher education. The articles selected in no way reflect the views of the editorial board of WIAReport.
Last week WIAReport posted that there were 33 reported sexual assaults at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs during the 2010-11 academic year. This was up from 20 reported sexual assaults the previous year. When this data was released, the Air Force said that a majority of the sexual assault cases at the academy did not involve perpetrators who were affiliated with the school.
Jane E. Larson, the Voss-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, died late last month at her home in Madison. She was 53 years old.
Diane Barz, the former justice of the Montana Supreme Court, was appointed by Royce Engstrom, president of the University of Montana, to launch an independent investigation of a series of three alleged sexual assaults on or near the Missoula campus during the fall semester.
Jeanne Lynn Hall, an associate professor in the department of film-video and media studies at Pennsylvania State University, died late last month at the Mount Nittany Medical Center in State College. She was 53 years old.
For the past two years, the Coalition for a Carleton Sexual Assault Support Centre has operated a crisis hotline for students at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. The coalition does not receive financial support from the university and the hotline was operated using the cellphones of its volunteers. The group has urged the university to fund and operate a center on campus since 2007 when a student was assaulted in a campus laboratory. There were three reported sexual assaults on campus during the recent fall semester.
Rosemary Raitt, who served on the board of regents at Pepperdine University for 29 years, died last month at the age of 91.