The University of California at Riverside received a three-year, $599,219 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop a program to recruit, retain, and 
develop leadership skills of women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. The grant will establish the Faculty Organization for Women’s Advancement, Recognition, and Development (FORWARD) program.
Yolanda Moses, professor of anthropology and associate vice chancellor for diversity, excellence, and equity at the University of California at Riverside, is the principal investigator for the grant project.
Theodora J. Kalikow has announced her intention to retire as president of the University of Maine at Farmington at the conclusion of the current academic year. She has served as president of the university since 1994. After stepping down, she will continue to serve the University of Maine system for two years working on special projects.
Alison R. Bernstein is the new director of the Institute for Women’s Leadership at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. During the 2010-11 academic year, Dr. Bernstein held the William H. and Camille Cosby Endowed Chair at Spelman College in Atlanta. Previously, she was vice president for education, creativity, and free expression at the Ford Foundation.
Michele Minter is the new vice provost for institutional equity and diversity at Princeton University. She will be responsible for the university’s affirmative action and equal opportunity programs and will oversee the university’s Title IX compliance programs.
Victoria Malawey was appointed assistant professor of music. She had held a similar post at Kenyon College in Ohio. Dr. Malawey is a graduate of Roosevelt University’s Chicago Musical College. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University.
Karin Velez is a new assistant professor of history at Macalester College. She was an assistant professor of history at Northeastern University in Boston. Dr. Velez is a graduate of Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. One of her teaching assignments this year is the course, “Pirates, Missionaries, and Translators: Between Atlantic Empires, 1450-1800.”
Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, California, has named two women to major academic positions.
Ruth J. Simmons, the 18th president of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, is stepping down as president at the end of the academic year. She is the first and only African American to lead an Ivy League university. Dr. Simmons became Brown’s president in 2001. Previously, she served as president of Smith College and was vice provost at Princeton University and provost at Spelman College in Atlanta.
Eva J. Pell, former dean of the Gradaute School and senior vice president for research at Pennsylvania State University, was honored by having her name attached to a new building on campus. The board of trustees approved the naming of the 20,000-square-foot science building as the Eva J. Pell Laboratory for Advance Biological Research. The new laboratory will house Penn State’s programs in immunology and infectious disease research. The completion of the new building is scheduled for next summer.
Kristen R. Ghodsee, John S. Osterweis Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and director of the gender and women’s studies program at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, received the 2011 William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology. The prize honors the best book published annually in Europeanist anthropology and is selected by a panel of members of the Society for Anthropology of Europe, part of the American Anthropological Association.
Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, a correspondent for National Public Radio, has been selected to receive the 2011 Lovejoy Award for courageous journalism from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Nelson is being honored for her reporting in Afghanistan, Egypt, and most recently in Libya.
Beatrice Mtetwa, a human rights attorney who has spent the past 20 years fighting for press freedom in Zimbabwe, received the Inamori Ethics Prize from the Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence at Case Western Reserve University. Established in 2008, the prize honors leaders who “have used their influence and actions to greatly improve the condition of humankind.”
Marybeth Allen, an associate graduate faculty member in the department of communication sciences and disorders at the University of Maine, was named the Speech-Language Pathologist of the Year by the National Stuttering Association.
Margaret Pipkin Garner, assistant dean for heath education and outreach at the College of Community Health Services of the University of Alabama, was named as the 2011 recipient of the Marjorie Hulsizer Copher Award, the highest honor bestowed by the American Dietetic Association.
Staci Bilbo, an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, was named as the recipient of the Frank Beach Award in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology from the Society of Neuroscience.
Amy Howell was appointed chair of the department of chemistry at the University of Connecticut. She has been on the faculty at the university since 1994.
Lynn M. Shore was named chair of the department of management at the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University. She has been a member of the department’s faculty since 2004 and also serves as co-director of the university’s Institute for Inclusiveness and Diversity in Organizations.
Sherrie Clark was named associate professor of theriogenology at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg. She was an assistant professor of farm animal reproduction, medicine, and surgery at the University of Illinois.
Susan Mackey-Kallis, an associate professor of communication at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, is spending the current academic year at Bryn Mawr College as an American Council on Education Fellow. At Bryn Mawr she will study ways to optimize internationalization efforts in higher education.
Linda Wallace, associate professor of accounting and information systems at the Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech, was named the John and Angela Emery Junior Faculty Fellow of Accounting and Information Systems. She has been on the Virginia Tech faculty since 2000.
Laura Gibson is the inaugural Alexander B. Osborn Distinguished Professor in Hematological Malignancies Research at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. Dr. Gibson has been serving as a professor in the department of microbiology, immunology, and cell biology and as deputy director of the Mary Babb Randolph Cancer Center at the university.
Colleen J. McCormick was named director of the Office of Sustainability at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She has served at IUPUI’s Regenstrief Institute of biomedical informatics research and in the department of environmental health and safety.
Stephanie Owens was appointed director of the Cornell Council for the Arts. Owens has been at Cornell since 2008 as a visiting assistant professor of art in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
Ursula Olender is the new director of the Career Center and associate dean of students at Amherst College in Massachusetts. She was director of career services at Colgate University.
Nakita Cropper is the new director of the Drug Information Center at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. The center was created to provide information on drugs to the public and healthcare professionals.
Judy Lucas Wilson was named director of the Upward Bound program at North Carolina A&T State University in Greensboro, North Carolina. She was the director of youth programs at the YWCA.
Dena Seidel is the new director of the Rutgers Center for Digital Filmmaking. Since 2007, she has taught at the Rutgers University Writers House.
Noor Azizan-Gardner was appointed interim chief diversity officer at the University of Missouri. She has been serving as director of diversity programming and professional development of the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative at the university.
Nina S. Driver was named program manager at the Institute on Race and Ethnicity at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Driver has served in the Peace Corps.
Linda A. Jackson, professor of psychology at Michigan State University in East Lansing, was named the faculty greivance official at the university. Dr. Jackson has been on the Michigan State faculty since 1981.
The College Board has released data on the performance of high school Class of 2011 on the SAT college entrance examination. The mean composite score for men on the three sections of the test was 1513. This is 22 points higher than the mean score for women. Each of the three sections of the SAT are scored on a scale of 200 to 800.
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Emily A. Spieler, dean of the School of Law at Northeastern University in Boston since 2002, has announced her intention to step down from her leadership position at the end of the academic year. Spieler also serves as the Edwin Hadley Professor of Law.
The School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has chosen Susan King as its next dean. Her appointment is effective on January 1. King will also be named the John Thomas Kerr Distinguished Professor at the school.
U.S. News & World Report has released its new rankings of America’s best colleges and universities. Wellesley College in Massachusetts retained its place as the top-rated women’s college. But Wellesley dropped from fourth place in 2011 to sixth place in the 2012 rankings of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges.
This coming Saturday, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will host the Math Prize for Girls competition sponsored by the Advantage Testing Foundation. More than 250 girls will compete for $49,000 in cash prizes.
Austin Peay State University (APSU) in Clarksville, Tennessee, has 32 new tenure or tenure-track faculty on campus this fall. Among the 32 new faculty members are 16 women.
At the Georgia Institute of Technology there are more than 1,000 women in the entering class, a new record for the university.
Ann Weaver Hart, president of Temple University in Philadelphia, has announced that she will step down as leader of the university at the end of the academic year. She has served a Temple’s first woman president for the past six years. Dr. Hart stated that she needs to return home to Utah to help care for her mother, who is ill.
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Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Virginia, has enrolled 121 first-year students this fall. For the first time in the school’s history, women outnumber men in the first-year class. Women make up 55 percent of this year’s entering class.
In September 2008, Annie Le, a third-year doctoral student in pharmacology at Yale University, was murdered as she worked in a campus laboratory.
The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Texas at Austin received a three-year $100,200 grant from the Embrey Family Foundation. The grant will be used to fund the NEW Leadership summer institute for the next three years. The six-day program will bring undergraduate college women to campus to encourage their participation in the political process.
The H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, has appointed three women to its faculty.
Anne Fiedler was named professor of management. She was a professor of management at Barry University in Miami.
Dena Hale was appointed assistant professor of marketing. She was an assistant professor of management, marketing, and logistics at Georgia Southern University.
Erin McLaughlin is a new assistant professor of marketing. She is completing her Ph.D. at the University of North Texas. She holds an MBA from Missouri State University.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has established a fellowship to honor a woman who was a key contributor in the development of the Hubble Space Telescope. The Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics will provide funding for up to five years for early-career scientists.
Suzanne Rowe, the James L. and Irene R. Hershner Professor and director of the Legal Research and Writing Program at the University of Oregon School of Law, has been selected as the winner of the 2012 Thomas F. Blackwell Memorial Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Legal Writing. The award is presented by the Association of Legal Writing Directors and the Legal Writing Institute.
Gina Turrigiano, professor of biology at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, has been selected to receive the 2012 Nakasone Award from the Human Frontier Science Program Organization. Professor Turrigiano will be honored for her work in synaptic scaling in the human brain. The award is named for former Japanese prime minister Yasuhior Nakasone and will be presented in a ceremony in Korea next July.