Lori Gonzalez was named provost and executive vice chancellor at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina. Since 2005, she has been serving as dean of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Her appointment is effective in September. Dr. Gonzalez has been an administrator at the University of Kentucky since 1991.
Dr. Gonzalez majored in speech pathology and audiology at the University of Kentucky. She earned a master’s degree in communication disorders at Eastern Kentucky University and Ph.D. in speech from the University of Florida.
U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann announced her candidacy for the presidency of the United States this week. Bachmann, who is the first Republican woman to be elected to the House of Representatives from Minnesota, represents a suburban district near the Twin Cities spanning six counties. Prior to her election to the House, she served in the Minnesota State Senate. The mother of five children, Bachmann has had 23 foster children in her home.
The board of trustees of Princeton University recently approved the hiring of 19 new faculty members. Three men were hired as full professors. Thirteen men and three women will join the Princeton faculty as assistant professors.
”¢ Danelle Devenport was named an assistant professor of molecular biology. She has been a postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University. A graduate of Humboldt State University in Arcata, California, Dr. Devenport earned a master’s degree from the University of British Columbia and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include cell polarity and morphogenesis.
Ӣ Jenny Greene will be an assistant professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton. She was an assistant professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Greene is a graduate of Yale University and earned her Ph.D. at Harvard University.
Ӣ Anna Zayaruzny was appointed an assistant professor of music. She was an assistant professor of music at New York University. Her research is focused in historical musicology. Dr. Zayaruzny is a graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University.
The University of New Mexico Press has announced that Hilda Raz is the new editor of its Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series. Raz recently stepped down as editor of Prairie Schooner, the literary journal she led since 1987. The author of 13 books, Raz was the Luschei Professor of English at the University of Nebraska. Her most recent book is What Happens (University of Nebraska Press, 2009).
MaryKatherine Callaway, director of the Louisiana State University Press, was elected president of the Association of American University Presses. Callaway has led the LSU Press since 2003. Previously, she was marketing director for the Johns Hopkins University Press.
Debra Houry, vice chair for research and associate professor of emergency medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine, was recently installed as president of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. The 6,500-member society seeks to improve patient care by advancing research and education in emergency medicine.
The University of North Dakota in Grand Forks has named women to head two of its schools. Kathryn R.L. Rand was appointed dean of the School of Law and Denise Korniewicz was named dean of the College of Nursing.
Rose Bellanca was named president of Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She was provost of the Florida campus of Northwood University. Previously, she served for six years as president of St. Clair Community County College in Port Huron, Michigan.
Jayathi Y. Murthy was named chair of the mechanical engineering department at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. The appointment is effective at the beginning of 2012. She will be the first woman to chair the department at the university.
Michelle Le Beau was named the Arthur and Marian Edelstein Professor at the University of Chicago. She was a professor of medicine and human genetics at the university. Professor Le Beau has published more than 400 academic papers on genetic abnormalities associated with leukemia.
Trudy Larson was appointed director of the School of Community Health Sciences at the University of Nevada in Reno. She has been serving as interim director for the past 10 months. Previously, she was associate dean, professor, and former chair of the department of pediatrics at the University of Nevada School of Medicine.
Next month, Irene Lasiecka, professor of mathematics at the University of Virginia, will receive the 2011 W.T. and Idalia Reid Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The prize, which includes a $10,000 cash award, is considered one of the most prestigious in the field of differential equations and control theory. Professor Lasiecka is the first woman to earn the prize, which was first awarded in 1994.
Huda Y. Zoghbi, director of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Texas Children’s Hospital and the Baylor University College of Medicine, will be awarded the 2011 Neuroscience Prize from the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation. The award which includes a gold medal and a $500,000 prize, will be presented to Dr. Zoghbi this November at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in Washington, D.C. Dr. Zoghbi is being honored for her work in unlocking the genetic and molecular mysteries surrounding neurological disorders such as Rett syndrome and medulliblastomas.
Kathryn A. Hall was elected chair of the executive committee of the board of trustees at Princeton University. She is CEO and chief investment officer at Hall Capital Partners, a San Francisco-based investment firm. Hall, a 1980 graduate of Princeton, will be the first woman to head the university’s board of trustees.
At the University of Minnesota, Linda Cohen was elected chair of the board of regents. Cohen is a licensed psychologist and family therapist. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in chemistry. She holds a master’s degree in the history of science at Harvard University and a master’s degree and Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Minnesota.
Esther Brown, an assistant professor at the School of Nursing at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania, received the 2011 Distinguished New Faculty Award from the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning.
Sonia Nieto, professor emerita in the department of teacher education and curriculum studies at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, was selected as a laureate of Kappa Delta Pi, the international education honor society established in 1911. Membership in the laureate division of KDP is limited to 60 living individuals whose work exemplifies the highest ideals of education.
Kathy Beauregard, director of athletics at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, was named AD of the Year by the National Association of College Directors of Athletics. She originally was hired by the university in 1979 as a gymnastics coach.
Katherine L. Heilpern, chair of the department of emergency medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine, received the 2011 Advancement of Women in Academic Emergency Medicine Award from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
Carolin Crawford, fellow of Emmanuel College and professor at the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge University in England, was named to deliver a series of six public lectures in London from November 2011 to June 2012 as the Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College. Some 354 years ago Sir Christopher Wren was appointed to the same position.
Naadu Mills, first lady of Ghana, received an honorary doctorate at Goodwin College in East Hartford, Connecticut. Mills was honored for devoting her life to the education of young girls in Ghana.
Adjoa A. Aiyetoro was named the founding director of the Institute on Race and Ethnicity at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. Since 2004, she has served as an associate professor at the university’s William H. Bowen School of Law.
The Graduate School of Education at the University at Buffalo, part of the State University of New York system, has named Amanda Nickerson as director of the Jean M. Alberti Center for the Prevention of Bullying, Abuse, and School Violence. She was an associate professor of school psychology at SUNY-Albany.
Mary Madden, associate research professor in the Center for Education and Research at the University of Maine, was named director of the university’s ADVANCE Rising Tide Center. The center, funded by a $3.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation, aims to increase the number of women faculty in the sciences.
The University of Pennsylvania announced that the director of its new Center for Global Women’s Health will be Lynn Sommers. She is currently the Lillian S. Brunner Professor of Medical/Surgical Nursing at the university.
Mary Simoni was appointed dean of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. The appointment is effective on October 1. For the past seven years, she has been serving at associate dean for research and community engagement and professor at the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance at the University of Michigan.
Kimberly Kempf-Leonard was named dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, effective August 1. She is currently chair of the department of criminology and criminal justice at the university. She previously taught at Temple University, Kent State University, the London School of Economics, the University of Missouri at St. Louis, and the University of Texas at Dallas. She joined the faculty at SIU in 2007.
On August 15 Lynn Okagaki will become dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Delaware. She is currently commissioner of the National Center for Educational Research at the Institute of Education Sciences in Washington, D.C.
Teri Britt Pipe was named interim dean of the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University. She was director of nursing research and innovation and associate professor of nursing at the College of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic.
Sonya Premeaux was appointed associate dean for graduate programs at College of Business of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She was associate dean of the College of Business at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Colleen Garland was named vice president for university relations at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio. She will join the university’s staff in August. She has been serving as assistant vice president for university development at Ohio State University. She previously held fundraising positions at Denison University and Otterbein University.
Caroline Levander was appointed vice provost for interdisciplinary initiatives at Rice University in Houston. She has been serving as the Carlson Professor of Humanties, professor of English, and director of the Humanities Research Center at the university. Her appointment takes effect on July 1 but she will be spending a year on sabbatical before assuming her full duties. She will spend the year completing work on two books.
Eve J. Higginbotham, executive dean for health sciences and senior vice president at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was elected to the board of trustees of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mary Sortino is the new director of academic affairs for the Delaware campus of the University of Phoenix. She was chair of the department of human services and social sciences at Delaware Technical & Community College campus in Dover.
Margaret Higgins was named vice president for student affairs at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island. The appointment is effective August 1. She was assistant to the president for special projects at the University of San Francisco.
Deborah E. Lipstadt, the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, was appointed by President Obama to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.
Elizabeth I. Dadzie is the new associate vice president for enrollment management at Tuskegee University. She previously was on the administrative staff at Indiana University.
Dorothy A. Hauver was named assistant treasurer and director of finance at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. Since 1991 she has been an auditor for KPMG in Boston.
Angela L. Pannell, business manager for the College of Business at Mississippi State University, was appointed by Governor Haley Barbour to the Mississippi State Board of Public Accountancy.
Rachel Fleck was appointed director of development for the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University in Houston. She was a development officer at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Carolyn Arthur “Biddy” Martin was named the 19th president of Amherst College, the highly rated liberal arts institution in western Massachusetts. Since 2008, she has been chancellor of the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus in Madison. Previously, she served as professor and provost at Cornell University. In accepting the position, Dr. Martin stated, “Amherst represents everything I value in higher education.”
Dartmouth College is losing one of its most longstanding woman faculty members.
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Jessica Jennrich was named director of the Center for Women and Gender at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire. She has been serving as director of undergraduate advising, curriculum, and programming for the department of women’s and gender studies at the University of Missouri. She has been on the department’s staff since 2005.
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Cheryl Hyman, chancellor of the City Colleges of Chicago, have recommended Reagan Romali as the next president of Truman College, one of the system’s seven colleges. The board of trustees is expected to vote on the nomination at its June 16th meeting.
A report by the National Union of Students in Australia offers disturbing statistics on sexual assault on college campuses in the country. The survey found that two out of every three women had “an unwanted sexual experience” while enrolled in college. One in six women who responded to the survey said they had been raped in college and another 12 percent said that they had fended off an attempted rape.
The University of Tennessee has appointed Joan Cronan as interim vice chancellor and director of athletics. Cronan has been director of women’s athletics at the university since 1983. She is the former president of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics.
The university also named Theresa M. Lee as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, effective January 1, 2012. She is currently chair of the department of psychology at the University of Michigan. She has been on the psychology department faculty at the University of Michigan since 1988.
Constance Hess Williams, a trustee of Barnard College from 1990 to 2000, has made a generous contribution to the college to endow the directorship of the Athena Center for Leadership Studies on the Barnard campus. Williams, daughter of the late Leon Hess, founder of Hess Oil, is a leading Democratic politician in Pennsylvania. She served in both the Pennsylvania House of Representative and the State Senate. She is also chair of the board of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Kathryn Kolbert, who has led the Athena Center since it was founded in 2009 will now become the Constance Hess William Director. Kolbert, a civil rights attorney, is a graduate of Cornell University and the Temple University School of Law.
Michelle M. Kalis was named provost at Saint Joseph College in West Hartford, Connecticut. She will also serve as a professor of biology and pharmaceutical sciences. Dr. Kalis was vice president for academic affairs and provost at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Boston. Prior to her 10-year tenure at MCPHS, she taught at the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences at Long Island University.
On July 26 Darby Dickinson will become dean of the School of Law at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. She will also hold the W. Frank Newton Endowed Professorship at the law school. Since 2004 Dickerson has been serving as dean of the Stetson University College of Law in Deland, Florida. She joined the faculty there as an assistant professor in 1995.
Shirley K. Baker, vice chancellor for scholarly resources and dean of university libraries at Washington University in St. Louis will retire at the end of the month. She has been dean of university libraries for 23 years.
Rosemary Loria was appointed professor and chair of the department of plant pathology at the University of Florida, effective August 19. She was a professor of plant pathology at Cornell University.
Cynthia M. Daily was named interim chair of the department of accounting at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She has been an associate professor of accounting at the university since 2004.
The University of Utah College of Social Work has announced that two of its faculty members will serve consecutive 18-month terms as the holder of the Belle S. Spafford Endowed Chair in Social Work. Marilyn Luptak is an assistant professor of social work at the university.She holds bachelor’s, master’s, and Ph.D. degrees in social work from the University of Minnesota.
Fran Wilby is an assistant professor and executive director of the university’s W.D. Goodwill Initiatives on Aging. She holds a bachelor’s degree, two master’s degrees, and a Ph.D. in social work from the University of Utah.
Irene Vasquez was appointed associate professor of American studies and director of the Chicano Hispanic Mexicano Studies program at the University of New Mexico. Her appointment is effective in August. She has been serving as professor and chair of the Chicana/o studies department at California State University, Dominguez Hills.
Salem College, the women’s college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has announced that it is adding three new majors this fall. Students at the college, which was founded in 1772, will now be able to major in criminal studies, environmental studies, and teaching, schools, and society. Students in the teaching, schools, and society major will choose between concentrations in advocacy, mathematics, environment, literacy, natural sciences, or social sciences.
After it was disclosed that she contributed $25,000 to Emily’s List, Roxanne Martino has resigned from the board of trustees of the University of Notre Dame. The Cardinal Newman Society, formed in 1993 to strengthen Catholic identity in Catholic higher education, had voiced objection to the contributions because Emily’s List supports many pro-choice women candidates. The society also objected to Martino’s contributions to the Chicago Foundation for Women, which reportedly has ties to Planned Parenthood.
Michelle Geoffrion-Vinci, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvnia, received the College/University Teacher of the Year Award from the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese. Professor Geoffrion-Vinci has taught at Lafayette since 1998.
Kathy Lu, associate professor of material science and engineering at Virginia Tech, received the 2011 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This honor allows professor Lu to spend a year conducting research at the Technische Universitat Darmstadt’s Institute for Materials Science in Germany.
Andrea Tawney is the new assistant dean for development at the College of Business at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. For the past eight years, Dr. Tawney has been an administrator and faculty member at the University of Arizona and Texas Tech University.
Lyn Brodersen was named vice president for student and academic affairs at North Iowa Area Community College in Mason City. She was dean of the College of Arts, Letters, and Sciences at Southwestern Minnesota State University in Marshall.
Carmen I. Canales was named associate vice president for human resources and chief human resources officer at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was a human resources professional for major law firm.
Sidney S. Evans was promoted to vice president of student affairs and dean of students at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. She was the associate dean for law student services at the university.
Leslie Cedar is the new executive director of Texas Exes, the alumni association at the University of Texas at Austin. She was senior vice president of Rearden Commerce Inc., a Silicon Valley e-commerce company.
Frances J. Feltner was named director of the University of Kentucky Center for Excellence in Rural Health in Hazard. She has served as interim director since last July.
Annemarie Seifert was appointed associate vice chancellor for student development at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She was associate vice president for student affairs and enrollment management at Georgia Southern University. She will assume her new duties on June 27.
Margaret Semmer was named vice chancellor for academics for the northwest region of Ivy Tech Community College in Indiana. Since 2007, she has been dean of career and technical education at Joliet Junior College in Illinois.
