Yale University has announced that next summer Kimberly M. Goff-Crews will become secretary of the university and also will hold the title of vice president for student life. Goff-Crews is currently vice president for campus and student life at the University of Chicago.
Goff-Crews is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. After practicing law for several years, she was named an assistant dean at Yale and was director of the Afro-American Cultural Center. In 1998, Goff-Crews was appointed associate dean for the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Lesley University in Boston. She then served for four years as dean of students at Wellesley College.
Hope Lewis, a professor at the Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, was named as the recipient of the Mayre Rasmussen Award for the Advancement of Women in International Law from the American Bar Association. The award will be presented in April in New York City.
Janet R. Donaldson, an assistant professor of microbiology at Mississippi State University, received the Charles C. Randall Lectureship Award from the South Central Branch of the American Society for Microbiology. Her research is focused on foodborne illnesses.
Julie A. Champion, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Georgia Tech, received a Breakthrough Award from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation. The award comes with a $100,000 grant for Dr. Champion’s research on inflammatory bowel disease which she is conducting with Andrew S. Neish, a professor at the Emory University School of Medicine.
Manuela Veloso, the Herbert A. Simon Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, was named a 2012 Einstein Chair Professor by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. As an Einstein Chair Professor, Dr. Veloso will make a series of presentations at Chinese universities. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence and robotics.
Anna Gassman-Pines, an assistant professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, is the inaugural recipient of the Victoria S. Levin Award for Early Career Success in Young Children’s Mental Health Research. The award is presented by the Society for Research in Child Development.
Marissa Nichole Rylander, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, received the 2012 Y.C. Fung Young Investigator Award from the bioengineering division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering.
Linda Darling-Hammond, the Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education at Stanford University, has been announced as the winner of the 2012 Grawemeyer Award in Education, presented by the University of Louisville. The award includes a $100,000 prize.
Kay Lallier Grant, dean of the College of Education at Northeastern State University in Muskogee, Oklahoma, is stepping down at the end of the year. Dean Grant has served as dean of the College of Education since 2001. She has been an educator for 40 years.
Para M. Jones was named the fourth president of Stark State College in North Canton, Ohio. Her appointment is effective on February 6, 2012. The community college enrolls about 15,000 students.
Nora V. Demleitner was named as the next dean of the Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia. She will take on the new role in July 2012. Demleitner will also hold the Roy L. Steinheimer Jr. Professorship of Law. She will be the first woman to hold the position as dean of the law school in its 145-year history.
Eli Collins-Brown was named a professor of medical education at the School of Medicine at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. She is the first faculty member appointed at the new medical school, which is scheduled to begin classes in the fall of 2014. Already on the job, she is working on curriculum development and implementation strategies.
Noemi Marin was appointed director of the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Dr. Marin joined the FAU faculty in 1999 and is now an associate professor. In 2007, she was named director of the university’s Peace Studies program.
Carmen-Helena Tellez will join the faculty at the University of Notre Dame this coming summer. She will be a full professor teaching in the department of music and in the department of theology’s master of sacred music program. Dr. Tellez has been serving as director of graduate choral studies in the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University. For the past 20 years, she has been director of the university’s Latin American Music Center.
Deborah Watkins Bruner was named the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta. She has been on the Emory faculty since September. Previously, she was the Independence Professor in Nursing Education at the University of Pennsylvania.
Katie Boes is a new clinical instructor of clinical pathology at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. She recently completed her residency in clinical pathology at the Purdue University School of Medicine.
Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, which enrolls only men, has announced that two women have been awarded tenure and promoted to the rank of associate professor. The new appointments are effective on July 1, 2012
gata Szczeszak-Brewer will be promoted to associate professor of English. She has been on the Wabash College faculty since 2006. She teaches British literature and cultural theory. She is the author of 
Elizabeth Morton will be promoted to associate professor of art. She is an expert in African art and has been on the Wabash College faculty since 2007.
Women make up just 28 percent of the tenure and tenure-track faculty at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana. Of the 67 department heads at Purdue, only 11 are women.
Beverly Sypher, vice provost for faculty affairs at Purdue, admits, “Our percentage of women who are full professors is shamefully low. The largest colleges at Purdue have historically had the fewest number of women students and therefore the fewest number of women faculty.” She has started a program called “Purdue Women Lead,” which is designed to help women progress into department chair positions and other leadership posts. “But,” Sypher says, “many women opt not to take that path.”
Peggy Fitch was appointed vice president for student development at Central College in Pella, Iowa. She will continue to serve as a professor of psychology at the college.
Bernadette Montoya, vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at New Mexico State University in La Cruces, was elected to a two-year term on the executive committee of the Council on Student Affairs of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities.
Lynette Zelezny, dean at California State University at Fresno, was named interim associate vice president for continuing and global education and associate provost at the university.
Jacqueline Deitch-Stackhouse was appointed director of the Sexual Harassment/Assault Advising, Resources, and Education (SHARE) officer at Princeton University in New Jersey. Since 2004, she has been serving as coordinator of the Office of Anti-Violence Initiatives for the College of New Jersey.
Taffye Benson Clayton was named vice provost for diversity and multicultural affairs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The appointment is effective February 1. Since 2009, she has served as associate provost for equity, diversity, and community relations at East Carolina University.
Gloria Graham was appointed assistant vice president for police services and assistant chief of police at the University of Chicago. The appointment is effective February 1. She has been serving as chief of police at the University of Tennessee.
Janine E. McDuffie is the new director of human resources and payroll systems at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina. She was a business process analyst in the general administration offices of the University of North Carolina System.
Choquette Hamilton was named associate director of development for the African and African diaspora studies department at the University of Texas. She was executive director of student diversity initiatives and director of the Multicultural Engagement Center at the university.
Eloise Dunn Stuhr was appointed vice president and vice chancellor for university advancement at the University of Houston and the University of Houston System. She is currently serving as vice president at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Previously, she has held fundraising posts at Vanderbilt University, Whitman College, and Penn State.
Kerrie L. Bennett was named director of legislative and government relations at the University of Rhode Island. She has been serving as senior communications officer for the Rhode Island Foundation. She is the former press secretary for Congressman Patrick Kennedy and was associate director of community and government relations at Brown University.
The University of Saskatchewan has announced the appointment of Ilene Busch-Vishniac as the ninth president of the educational institution. She will assume the post on July 1, 2012.
The University of Maine System has announced three finalists to become the system’s next chancellor. Current Chancellor Richard L. Pattenaude is stepping down in June 2012.
Meredith Hay is a special advisor to the chair for strategic initiatives of the Arizona Board of Regents. She was executive vice president and provost at the University of Arizona from 2008 to August 2011. Previously, she was vice president for research at the University of Iowa.
Rebecca Wyke is the current vice chancellor for finance and administration at the University of Maine System. She previously served as commissioner for the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services. She has also been chief deputy Secretary of State for Maine.
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, author, psychoanalyst, public intellectual, and educator, died earlier this month at her home in Toronto from a pulmonary embolism. She was 65 years old.
Deborah Tippins, a professor in the department of mathematics and science education at the University of Georgia, received the inaugural Mentor Award from the Southeastern Association of Science Teacher Education (SASTE). Then, the association voted to rename the Mentor Award in her honor. Henceforth, the prize will be called the Deborah Tippins Mentor Award. Professor Tippins is the past president of SASTE.
The American Association of Colleges of Nursing has chosen three women academics to receive its 2011 Novice Faculty Teaching Award. The award recognizes innovation in nursing education by earlier career faculty at member institutions. Two of the three winners this year teach at Texas Woman’s University.
Here is this week’s news of grants that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
The University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Rapids has announced plans to conduct a comprehensive review of its policies and procedures concerning sexual harassment complaints and sexual assault allegations.
Barbara G. Wells is retiring from her post as dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Mississippi. She has served as dean since 2001. During her tenure as dean, the School of Pharmacy has significantly expanded and improved its facilities, doubled its level of research and revamped its curriculum. A new facility for pharmacy practice education and research program is about to open in Jackson. All of the school’s graduates in 2011 passed the national pharmacy licensure examination on their first attempt.
Marilyn W. Wolfson is the associate leader of the Weather Sensing Group of the Lincoln Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been at the Lincoln Laboratory since 1983. Dr. Wolfson is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from MIT.
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Julie E. Wollman was named president of Edinboro University, an institution of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The appointment is effective on June 1, 2012.
Carolyn Long, former chair of the West Virginia University Board of Governors and retired superintendent of the Braxton County, West Virginia, school system was named transitional executive officer at the Institute of Technology of West Virginia University in Montgomery. The appointment is effective on January 1.
Mary Gordon, the Millicent C. McIntosh Professor in English and Writing at Barnard College in New York City, was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from University College in Dublin, Ireland. The citation for the honorary degree read in part, “Mary Gordon is among America’s most admired prose writers. Her work constitutes a very important contribution to Irish American literature, exploring as it does with impeccable integrity, Irish American family life.”
Leila Nadya Sadat, the Henry H. Oberschelp Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, received the 2011 Book of the Year Award from the American National Section of the L’Association Internationale de Droit Penal. Her book is entitled 
Duke University has established two fellowships to honor Jo Rae Wright, who stepped down as dean of the university’s graduate school in October. Dr. Wright, a professor of cell biology, medicine, and pediatrics at Duke, explained that she decided to step down as dean due to her continuing battle with breast cancer.
Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, professor of religion at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, received the 2011 Academy of Women Award from the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). In addition to teaching, Professor Kirk-Duggan is a singer, author, and ordained minister.
Dawn Traynor, director of the Cross Campus Advising Program at the University of South Carolina, will receive the Outstanding New Professional award from the Commission for Academic Support in Higher Education of the American College Personnel Association.
Cynthia E. Nance, the Nathan G. Gordon Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas, has been chosen to receive the Spirit of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association. She will receive the award at the ABA mid-year meeting in New Orleans on February 4, 2012. Professor Nance is being honored for her efforts to promote diversity in the legal profession.
Susan K. Johnsen, professor of educational psychology at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, received the President’s Award from the National Association of Gifted Children. Professor Johnsen has been on the Baylor faculty since 1989.
Gayle Andrews, an associate professor of education at the University of Georgia, received the John H. Lounsbury Award for Distinguished Service from the Association for Middle Level Education. She is the president of the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform.
Paula E. Hyman, the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University, has died after a long battle with cancer. She was 65 years old.
Professor Hyman was the author of five books: The Jewish Woman In America (1976); From Dreyfus to Vichy: The Remaking of French Jewry, 1906-1939 (1979); The Emancipation of the Jews of Alsace (1991); Gender and Assimilation in Modern Jewish History (1995); and The Jews of Modern France (1998).
Gail M. Schwartz was appointed senior vice president for academic, innovation and student success at the American Association of Community College. Since 2006, Dr. Schwartz has been the senior adviser for community colleges at the U.S. Department of Education. She also served as the director of the division of academic and technical education in the Office of Vocational and Adult Education at the Department of Education.
Beate Schmittmann was named as the next dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University in Ames. Her appointment is effective on April 2. She is chair of the department of physics at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. She has served on the faculty at Virginia Tech since 1991.
Hannah L. Buxbaum was appointed acting dean of the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University in Bloomington. Currently she is executive associate dean for academic affairs and holds the John E. Schiller Chair in Legal Ethics at the law school. She has been on the law school’s faculty since 1997.
Julianne Serovich was named the next dean of the College of Behavioral and Community Sciences at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She will assume her new duties next summer. Currently, she is chair of the department of human development and family science at Ohio State University.
Joni Boye-Beaman was promoted to dean of the College of Arts and Behavioral Sciences at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan. She will take her new position on July 1. She currently serves as associate dean.
Deborah Shelton was named the E. Jane Martin Professor at the West Virginia University School of Nursing. She will also serve as the associate dean for research. Dr. Shelton was an associate professor of nursing at the University of Connecticut.
Sandie M. Bass-Ringdahl is the inaugural holder of the Mark and Susan Ashley Endowed Professorship in Audiology at the Southern Illinois University Rehabilitation Institute. Before coming to SIU, Dr. Bass-Ringdahl was on the faculty of the department of communication sciences and disorders at the University of Iowa.
Alison Cook-Sather was named the Jean Rudduck Visiting Scholar at Homerton College of the University of Cambridge. As a result of this appointment, professor Cook-Sather will teach at Cambridge for the next three summers. Jean Rudduck was the first woman to serve as professor of education at Cambridge.
Bonnie Daily was named to the John P. Loveland Professorship in Quality Management at New Mexico State University. She is the director of the Ph.D. program in the university’s department of management.
Sherri Ondrus was appointed vice chancellor for institutional strategy, research, and effectiveness for the Maricopa Community College System. Based in Tempe, Arizona, the system includes 10 community college campuses.
Mona Sedrak was named associate dean for the division of health sciences in the School of Health and Medical Sciences at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. Dr. Sedrak joined the Seton Hall faculty in 2006 and since 2010 has chaired the department of physician assistant.
Sabrina Cave was named assistant vice president for student affairs at West Virginia University. She has been serving as executive director for student affairs communications for the university’s Mountaineer Parents Club.
Rita J. Teal was named interim vice president of academic affairs at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. She has been serving as executive director of Institutional Effectiveness.
Rebecca Stoltzfus was named provost’s fellow for public engagement at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She is a professor of nutritional science and director of the program in international nutrition in Cornell’s College of Human Ecology.
vy N. Asano was appointed assistant director of admissions at the John A. Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii. She has been on the medical school faculty since 2000.
Jena Baker-Calloway was appointed director of the Michigan State University Detroit Center. She was a community health educator, academic research liaison, and community grant consultant for Wayne State University.
Deborah J. Coffin was chosen to become the vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She has been serving in the post on an interim basis. Previously, she was associate vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of students.
Rosemary M. Thomas was named vice president for university advancement at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers. She will also serve as executive director of the FGSU Foundation. Her appointment is effective on February 20. She has been serving as vice president for university advancement at Salisbury University in Maryland.