Gianna Savoie an instructor in the master of fine arts program in science and natural history filmmaking at Montana State University, has been nominated for an Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She has been honored for her documentary Wolverine: Chasing the Phantom. The documentary was filmed in Montana and Alaska. Savoie estimates that only a few hundred wolverines remain in the wild in the Lower 48 states.
The film was shown on the Public Broadcasting System’s Nature series. The film can be viewed below.
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The Emmy Awards for news and documentaries will be presented on September 26 in New York City.
Latha Ramchand, an expert on international and corporate finance, was named dean of the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. She has been serving as interim dean since March and previously was associate dean of programs and administration. She is also a professor finance at the business school.
Colgate University, the highly selective liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York, has announced a new large group of women faculty on campus this fall.
First Lady Michelle Obama has selected Judith S. Palfrey as the executive director of the Let’s Move program, an effort to reduce childhood obesity. In accepting the appointment, Dr. Palfrey stated, “As a doctor, I know how important fighting the epidemic of childhood obesity is, and I’ve seen firsthand the struggles families can face in keeping their kids healthy. That’s why I’m eager to build on the successes of Let’s Move and continue to empower parents to make the healthier choices.”
Jackee Budesta Batanda, a Ugandan journalist for the Global Press Institute, has been chosen as the 2011-12 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The fellowship was created by friends and family of Elizabeth Neuffer, a reporter who was killed in Iraq in 2003. The fellowship, administered by the International Women’s Media Foundation, aims to promote international understanding of human rights and social justice and create an opportunity for women journalists to enhance their craft.
Alanna Schepartz, the Milton Harris ’29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, was named director of the university’s new Chemical Biology Institute. She chaired the faculty advisory committee that developed the institute over the past year.
Greer Glazer was selected as the new dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Cincinnati. Her appointment is effective January 1. Currently, Dr. Glazer is dean and professor of nursing at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has served as dean of the UMass nursing school since 2004.
Laurie H. Glimcher, the Irene Heinz Given Professor of Immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health, and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, was named dean of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City. The appointment is effective on January 1.
Bates College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Lewiston, Maine, has named two women as assistant professors.
Mara Tieken is a new assistant professor of education. She has taught public school in rural Tennessee and her research focuses on how rural schools impact racial relations in the communities they serve. She holds master’s and doctoral degrees from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Theri Pickens was appointed assistant professor of English. Her research focuses on African-American and Arab-American literature. A graduate of Princeton University, Dr. Pickens earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of California at Los Angeles.
There are 30 new faculty members at University of Vermont this fall. Here are brief profiles of four women named to the faculty.
Sue B. Clark, Regents Professor of analytical chemistry at Washington State University, was appointed by President Obama to serve as a member of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board. The board provides scientific and technical oversight of the Department of Energy’s programs for disposing of high-level radioactive waste.
Victoria Niederhauser is the new dean of the College of Nursing at the University of Tennessee. She was associate dean for academic affairs at the School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene at the University of Hawaii. She previously taught at George Washington University and George Mason University.
Also at the University of Tennessee, Theresa Lee is the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She was chair of the department of psychology at the University of Michigan.
Bettye M. Clark is the new dean of graduate studies at Clark Atlanta University. She has served as interim dean for the past year and has been a faculty member at the university for 28 years.
Diana Rapp was named an associate professor of education at Ohio Valley University in Vienna, West Virginia. She was the principal of Lincoln High School in Idaho Falls, Idaho.
Cynthia Nance was named the inaugural Nathan G. Gordon Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas. Gordon, a 1939 graduate of the law school, won the Congressional Medal of Honor for his 1944 rescue of 15 Army Air Force soldiers in the Bismark Sea. He returned to Arkansas and served for 20 years as lieutenant governor.
Karen L. Wooley was named University Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University in College Station. Dr. Wooley, a professor of chemistry, is one of 64 scholars who have been named to the highest faculty rank at the university. She joined the Texas A&M faculty in 2009 after serving on the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis.
Anisa Zvonkovic was appointed chair of the Department of Human Development at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She was professor and chair of the department of human development and family studies at Texas Tech University. From 1985 to 2005, she taught at Oregon State University.
Karilynne Wallace was named chair of the program of aerospace studies and director of the Air Force ROTC program at Utah State University. She has been serving as a budget officer for the Air Force at the Pentagon.
Amy Petersen Jensen is the new chair of the department of theatre and media arts at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. She is an associate professor in the department. Dr. Jensen is co-editor of the Journal of Media Literacy Education.
Allison Kendrick Thacker was named president of the Rice Management Company. She will also serve as chief investment officer, treasurer, and vice president for investments at Rice University in Houston. She has been serving as managing director of RS Investments where she managed five mutual funds with $2 billion in assets.
Jennifer Sanborn was named chief of staff for Lynn Pasquerella, president of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts. Previously, she was director of the Women’s Education and Leadership Fund at the University of Hartford.
Angela Mazaris was appointed to establish the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Center at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was a presidential management fellow at the Internal Revenue Service and at the National Park Service. Previously, she taught in the American studies department and served as the graduate proctor of the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center at Brown University.
Susan Short was named associate vice president for engagement at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, effective October 1. She is the former director of Virginia Tech’s Roanoke Center.
Min Jung Kim was appointed deputy director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University. She was managing director of the exhibitions and programming for the Global Cultural Management Group and previously worked for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
Jean MacCormack, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, announced that she will step down from her leadership post at the end of the academic year. Dr. MacCormack, who has led the university since 1999, may continue teaching part-time after stepping down as chancellor.
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Three women professors have been awarded emerita status at Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri.
Norma Champion was a professor of communication at the university. She is a graduate of Central Bible College and holds a master’s degree from Missouri State University and a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma. She served in both the Missouri House of Representatives and the Missouri State Senate. Dr. Champion was on the university’s faculty for 30 years.
Marilyn Kingsriter was an associate professor of education. She has been a member of the full-time faculty for 16 years. A graduate of Evangel University, she holds a master’s degree from Northern State University in Aberdeen, South Dakota, and a doctorate from the University of Missouri.
Marilyn Quigley joined the university’s faculty in 1978 and retired as an associate professor of English. She holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Missouri State University.
The College of the Holy Cross, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution in Worcester, Massachusetts, has announced the hiring of 14 new faculty members for the 2011-12 academic year. Six of the new faculty members are women.
The University of Iowa Libraries and the Iowa Women’s Archives has debuted a new digital collection documenting the decades-long battle waged by Iowa women to gain the right to vote. The 
The Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program at the University of Nevada in Reno recently celebrated its fifth anniversary. This fall there are 41 women from the incoming Class of 2015 who have joined the WISE program. This is the largest class of women scientists in the program’s history.
Sarah-Jane Murray, associate professor in the Honors College and resident scholar at the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, received a three-year, $210,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities. Professor Murray will use the grant to fund her translation of Ovid moralise from Old French into English.
Noël Busch-Armendariz, associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin, has completed a study which shows wide discrepancies in the level of services for sexual assault victims in Texas. Her survey of victims, healthcare professionals, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers found that many victims who came forward after being sexually assaulted failed to follow through with complaints due to a multitude of factors, including very long waits at hospital emergency rooms. The study was funded by Criminal Justice Division of the Office of the Governor.
Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, reports that this fall there are 856 students enrolled in its undergraduate Women’s College. This is four fewer students than a year ago. There are 183 first-year students and 146 new students who transferred from other educational institutions.
The National Cancer Institute has awarded a five-year, $19.3 million grant to three scientists for a study to determine why young African-American women are more likely than women of European ancestry to be diagnosed with aggressive types of breast cancer. The study will be under the direction of Robert Millikan, the Barbara Sorenson Hulka Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, Julie R. Palmer, a professor of epidemiology at the Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, and Christine Ambrosone, professor of oncology at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, New York.
Notre Dame University of Maryland received a $450,000 grant from the National Science Foundation for scholarships in STEM fields for students in its undergraduate Women’s College. Each year, up to 10 current or prospective students will receive $10,000 scholarships through the university’s Pathways to Excellence program.
Rebecca Whelan, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Oberlin College in Ohio, has received a three-year, $345,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a non-invasive testing procedure for early detection of ovarian cancer. During the first year of the grant program, Dr. Whelan will conduct research at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, author, poet, and longtime college professor, has died in Chicago after suffering a stroke. She was 71 years old. Professor Schaeffer taught at the Illinois Institute of Technolgy, the University of Chicago, and for 30 years at Brooklyn College in New York City.
The University of Kentucky has announced the appointment of eight scholars to department chairs. Four of the new department chairs are women.
Associate professor Deborah L. Crooks was named chair of the department of anthropology. She holds a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is currently conducting research funded by the National Science Foundation examining the relationship between livelihood strategies and food and nutrition security in Zambia.
Associate professor Marion Rust will be interim chair of the English department for the fall semester. Dr. Rust earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University. She specializes in early American literature and culture and nineteenth-century American women writers. She is the author of 
Karen Petrone is the new chair of the history department. She is the author of 
Professor of Russian studies Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby is the new head of the department of modern and classical languages, literatures and cultures. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Virginia and has taught at the University of Kentucky ever since. She is the author of 
Dartmouth College’s first endowed chair, the John Phillips Chair in Divinity, was established more than two centuries ago in 1787.
Pamela K. Crossley was appointed to the Charles A. and Elfriede A. Collis Professorship in History. Professor Crossley received her Ph.D. from Yale in 1983. She is a specialist on the Qing empire, and also researches and writes on Central and Inner Asian history, the history of horsemanship in Eurasia before the modern period, and global history. Her most recent book is 
Irene Kacandes, professor of German and comparative literature, was appointed to the Dartmouth Professorship #2. In 1991 she completed her Ph.D. in comparative literature at Harvard and taught at the University of Texas before coming to Dartmouth in 1994. She chaired the Department of German Studies from 2008-2011. She is the author of 
Dora E. Angelaki was appointed chair of the department of neuroscience at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. She will also teach at Rice University.
Tamara Rozhon was named president of Carrington College, a division of DeVry Inc. The college, which concentrates on degree programs in healthcare fields, has 10 campuses in six western states.
Dallas Reed was appointed dean of student development and campus life for the New York campuses of Berkeley College. The college, which has four campuses in northern New Jersey, has four satellite campus in New York. Two are in Manhattan, one in Brooklyn, and one in White Plains. All told, Berkeley enrolls about 9,000 students.
Marianne Janack was named full professor of philosophy. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from Syracuse University. Previously she taught at Brown University and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. She is the editor of 
Interpretations of Richard Rorty
Barbara Allen was named to the Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professorship in the Social Sciences. After teaching at the Kelley Graduate School of Business at Indiana University, Dr. Allen joined the Carleton faculty in 1998 and has served as chair of the department of political science and as director of the women’s and gender studies program.
Susannah R. Ottaway was named to the David and Marian Adams Bryn-Jones Distinguished Teaching Chair in the Humanities. In this role she will become director of the Carleton Humanities Center.