Amber Hunter was named director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. She is the first African-American to hold the position and is the youngest admissions director in university history. For the past five years she has been associate admissions director. She has been on the admissions staff at the University of Nebraska since 2002.
Hunter is a graduate of the University of Kansas. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Nebraska and is currently pursuing an educational doctorate at UNL.
At Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, Sarah Richardson has been named director of admissions and scholarships. She was associate director of undergraduate admissions at Fordham University in the Bronx, New York.
Richardson is a graduate of Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. She earned a master’s degree at Fordham University.
Anneila I. Sargent, the Rosen Professor of Astronomy and vice president for student affairs at the California Institute of Technology, was nominated by President Obama to sit on the National Science Board, the governing body of the National Science Foundation. Dr. Sargent first arrived at CalTech 40 years ago as a graduate student. She was named a full professor in 1998. Her research is focused on star formation.
Sister Mary Thomas Prado was named the eighteenth president of St. Scholastica’s College in Manila. The 105-year-old college in the Philippines was founded by five German nuns in a windowless wagon shed. Now the college has nearly 5,000 students and 400 faculty.
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Cynthia Tucker will leave the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to become a visiting professor at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The appointment is effective on August 12. Tucker has been based in Washington, serving as a political columnist for the newspaper.
Lucy C. Morse, associate professor of engineering emerita at the University of Central Florida, received the Bernard R. Sarchet Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. Dr. Morse was honored for lifetime achievement in engineering management education.
In 1987, Dr. Morse was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. at the College of Engineering of the University of Central Florida. She is the coauthor of the textbook, 
Sade Kosoko-Lasaki, asssociate vice president for health sciences, multicultural and community affairs at the Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, was named Physician of the Year in Surgery by the American Academy of Specialists in Surgery, an affiliate of the American Association of Physician Specialists. Dr. Kosoko-Lasaki is professor and chair of the ophthalmology department and professor of preventive medicine and public health at the medical school.
Katherine Lambert-Pennington, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Memphis, was selected as the winner of the 2011 Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty. The award, presented by the New England Resource Center for Higher Education, will be given to Dr. Lambert-Pennington in October at the Conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities. She is being honored for her work on revitalization projects in Memphis.
Lois W. Banner, professor of history and gender studies at the University of Southern California, is a finalist for the 2011 Book Awards presented by the Southern California Independent Booksellers Association. She was honored for her work, 
Tanya Schneider, as assistant professor of chemistry at Connecticut College in New London, received the Cottrell College Science Award presented by the Research Corporation for Science Advancement. Schneider was honored for her research on the rise in antibiotic resistance.
Janet Poppendieck, professor of sociology at Hunter College in New York City, received the Leadership Award from the James Beard Foundation. The award is given to individuals who work to create “a healthier, safer, and more sustainable food world.” Professor Poppendieck was honored for her books, 
Bea Awoniyi, assistant dean of students and director of the Student Disability Resource Center at Florida State University, received the Ronald E. Blosser Dedicated Service Award, the highest honored bestowed by the Association of Higher Education and Disability.
“The increasing relevance of women’s education is apparent in what we’re learning about leadership. Women have a style that is more collaborative, more willing to challenge problems, to take calculated risk, and challenge rules they believe are not just. That means what women’s colleges do now is focus more specifically on the learning environment and the unique opportunities to engage students in leadership roles.”
Lisa Klesges was named the founding dean of the University of Memphis School of Public Health. She has been serving as interim dean since July 2009.
Harriet Fayne was appointed dean of the School of Education at Lehman College in the Bronx, New York. The college is part of the City University of New York system. Dean Fayne was dean of the School of Professional Studies and interim dean of the graduate school at Otterbein University in Westerville, Ohio.
Sharon R. Stewart was named interim dean of the College of Health Science at the University of Kentucky. She has been serving as associate dean of academic affairs and professor of communication sciences and disorders. She has been on the faculty at the university since 1991.
Donna M. Di Grazia, professor of music and choral director at Pomona College in California, was named the David J. Baldwin Professor at the college. She has been on the Pomona College faculty since 1998. The endowed professorship at Pomona College was established in 1951.
Claire M. Germain was named Clarence J. TeSelle Professor of Law and associate dean for legal information at the Levin College of Law of the University of Florida. She was professor of law and the Edward Cornell Law Librarian at Cornell University.
Heidi Grant Murphy was named adjunct professor of practice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She has been a leading soprano with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for the past 20 seasons.
Kathy Cavins-Tull is the new vice chancellor for student affairs at Texas Christian University in Forth Worth. She was vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington.
Annie Laurie Cadmus was appointed director of sustainability at Ohio University in Athens. She was a sustainability specialist at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, Illinois.
Catherine Shenoy was named director of MBA program at the University of Kansas School of Business. Dr. Shenoy has been on the faculty at the business school since 1993.
Susana Rivera-Mills is the new associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Oregon State University. She is a professor of foreign languages and literatures at OSU.
Chris Sheridan was promoted to vice president for university marketing and communications and senior adviser to the the president at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. She has been serving as chief of staff to the university’s president.
Mary Beth Hanner is the new provost and chief academic officer of Excelsior College, a distance education institution headquartered in Albany, New York. She has been serving as interim provost and previously was vice president for outcomes assessment and institutional research.
JoAnn W. Haysbert, president of Langston University in Oklahoma, has announced that she will step down at the end of the year. President Haysbert is the first woman to lead the historically black university. She has served as president for six years.
After only 11 months on the job, Irma McClaurin abruptly resigned as president of Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Classes at the university are scheduled to begin on Monday. An official inauguration of Dr. McClaurin as university president was scheduled for October.
Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, a college which enrolls only women in its undergraduate programs, has announced that there will be 10 new faculty members on campus this fall.
Bernadine Healy Loop, the former dean of the College of Medicine and Public Health at Ohio State University and the first woman director of the National Institutes of Health, has died of brain cancer at the age of 67. She was first diagnosed with the disease in 1996.
Martha T. Nesbitt, president of Gainesville State College in Oakwood, Georgia, has announced that she will step down at the end of the 2011-12 academic year. Dr. Nesbitt has led the college since 1997. During her tenure, enrollments at the college increased from 3,256 students to 8,900 students.
Cathy Brookshire, an instructor of speech communication and rhetoric at the University of South Carolina, has recently completed work on a documentary film on women in the U.S. military. Brookshire was inspired to make the film after hearing an NPR documentary on military personnel that did not include one woman.
Lee-Ann Jaykus, a professor in the department of food, bioprocessing, and nutrition sciences at North Carolina State University, is leading a multi-campus research project to understand and prevent noroviruses, the most common form of food-borne disease. The noroviruses are spread through contaminated food or water or by human touching of contaminated surfaces. About 5 million cases of of norovirus disease are reported each year in the United States.
Elizabeth A. Dooley, associate provost and professor of special education and curriculum and instruction at West Virginia University, has been named interim dean of the College of Human Resources and Education at the university. Professor Dooley will continue in her previous roles while taking on the additional duties of dean.
Cecilia Preciado Burciaga was named 2011 Woman of the Year by the League of United Latin American Citizens. Dr. Burciaga is now an educational consultant and adjunct professor at San Jose State University. She will receive the award later this month.
Carmen Simone was appointed provost at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. She has been serving as vice president for academic affairs at Casper College in Wyoming. Dr. Simone has been at Caspar College since 1993 when she was hired as an instructor in chemistry.
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According to data released by the Scottish Funding Council, in the 2005-06 academic year, 68 percent of women in the late teen years were enrolled in higher education. That year, just 61 percent of Scottish men in the same age group were enrolled in higher education.
Kathryn A. VandenBosch is one of three finalists for dean of the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. VandenBosch is the only woman among the three finalists. All three candidates will visit campus this fall before a final decision is made.
Constance Cortez, an associate professor in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, received the top prize in the arts books category at the 2011 International Latino Book Awards. She was honored for her biography of 
Garza was born in Kingsville, Texas, and her arts reflects her experiences growing up in South Texas. The biography includes 77 pages containing color illustrations of Garza’s work.
Phyllis M. Wise was selected to become chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and vice president of the University of Illinois system. Her appointment is effective October 1, pending approval by the board of trustees. She will also hold a tenured position in the department of cell and developmental biology and in the department of molecular and integrative physiology at the University of Illinois College of Medicine.
Ingrid Daubechies, the James B. Duke Professor of Mathematics at Duke University, received the 2011 John von Neuman Lecture Prize at the 7th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics held recently in Vancouver, British Columbia. The prize, first awarded in 1959, rewards outstanding contributions to the field of applied mathematical sciences. The award comes with a $5,000 cash prize.
Kendra Bence received the 2011 Pfizer Award for Veterinary Research Excellence. The award recognizes outstanding research effort and productivity in the field of veterinary medicine.
Jeretta Horn Nord, professor of management science and information systems at the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University, received the Special Recognition Award from the Association for Continuing Higher Education. She will receive the award at the association’s annual conference in Orlando this October.
Terry Fulmer, a professor of nursing at New York University and currently a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, was chosen to receive the 2011 Doris Schwartz Gerontological Nursing Research Award from the Gerontological Society of America. The award is given for outstanding and sustained contributions to geriatric nursing research.
Leslie Tuttle, an associate professor of history at the University of Kansas, won the 2011 Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award. Professor Tuttle was honored for her book 
Susan S. Sher has spent the last two years in Washington as special assistant to the President and associate White House counsel. She also served as chief of staff for First Lady Michelle Obama. From 1997 to 2009, she was vice president for legal and governmental affairs for the University of Chicago Medical Center.
Judith Buchanan was named interim dean of the University of Minnesota School of Dentistry. Since 2005 she has been a professor at the school and has been serving as associate dean for academic affairs. Before coming to the University of Minnesota, Dr. Buchanan was academic dean at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dentistry.
Jaclynn Davis Wallette was named coordinator for tribal college outreach initiatives. She has been serving as assistant vice president for equity, diversity, and global outreach. Since 2005, she has also served as director of the Office of Multicultural Programs at the university.
Kara Gravely-Stack, director of diversity initiatives for equity, diversity, and global outreach, will replace Wallette as director of the Office of Multicultural Programs. She will continue her duties as director of the Equity and Diversity Center, a position she has held since 2008.
Jessica P. Einhorn, dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, has announced that she will step down at the end of the 2011-12 academic year. Dr. Einhorn has led the prestigious school for the past decade. Before coming to John Hopkins, Dr. Einhorn served as managing director of the World Bank.