The Division of Equity, Diversity, and Global Outreach at North Dakota State University in Fargo has announced administrative changes.
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.
Laura C. Bridgewater was named chair of the micro/molecular biology department at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. Dr. Bridgewater has been a faculty member at BYU since 1999.
Mary E. Emery was appointed professor and chair of the department of sociology and rural studies at South Dakota State University in Brookings. Dr. Emery was a professor of sociology and associate director of the North Central Regional Center for Rural Sociology at Iowa State University. She joined the Iowa State faculty in 2004.
Angelina Hill was appointed director of institutional research at the College of the Redwoods in Eureka, California. She was the associate director of academic assessment at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.
Margaret Himley was named associate vice provost for international education and engagement at Syracuse University. She is the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Teaching Excellence, professor of writing and rhetoric, and co-director of the LGBT studies program at the university.
Sylvia Munsen, the Beverley Taylor Sorenson Chair in Elementary Arts Education at Utah State University, was named director of the university’s ArtsBridge program. The program allows Utah State students interested in arts education to apply their craft with local schoolchildren.
Katie Stockhammer was named director of development for the arts at Stony Brook University in New York. She was campaign director for the Long Island chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Candace Boeninger, is the new assistant vice provost and director of undergraduate admissions at Ohio University. She has been serving as the interim director and has been an admissions officer at the university for eight years.
Jane R. Willis was appointed associate dean for educational services at Newberry College in South Carolina. She was the managing director of the Office of Career Services at the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.
Rachel Berney was named interim director of the master’s degree program in landscape architecture at the University of Southern California. Dr. Berney has been on the faculty at the university since 2007.
Mercy Eyadiel was appointed executive director for employment development in the Office of Personal and Career Development at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was director of alumni and career services at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Previously she was the director of alumni relations and development at Vanderbilt University.
Marianne E. Lord was named vice president of advancement at Simmons College in Boston. Her appointment is effective on September 6. She has been serving as associate dean of institutional advancement at Boston College. There, she was responsible for fundraising for the college’s law school. Previously, she was development officer for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Debbie Thomas was appointed provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at North Carolina Central University in Durham. She was serving as associate provost and associate vice chancellor at NCCU.
Two tenured professors at Bowdoin College in Maine have authored a new book on the challenges faced by women academics who want to have children.
Professor Connelly, who also serves as chair of the economics department at Bowdoin, has been on the college’s faculty since 1985. She has four children. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Michigan.
Kristen R. Ghodsee is a graduate of the University of California at Santa Cruz. The mother of one child, she holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley.
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania is one of the largest and most respected business schools in the world. Founded in 1881, it has more than 80,000 living alumni in more than 140 countries around the globe.
The Committee on Academic Priorities at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania has recommended changes in the graduate programs offered at the highly rated women’s college. The committee recommended that the graduate program in psychology be discontinued and the resulting savings redirected to the undergraduate program in the same discipline. The master’s degree program in French is also being continued.
Teresa Buchanan, an associate professor in the College of Education at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, was named editor of the newsletter of the Early Education and Child Development Special Interest Group Executive Committee of the American Educational Research Association. The group promotes research on policy, practice, and teacher development for education involving children through age 8.
Salem College,in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is offering its first online degree program. The women’s college will offer a master of education degree in school counseling, beginning this fall. In addition to online classes, students will participate in internship programs and participate in two weekend seminars on the Salem College campus. Students are expected to complete the online degree program in three years.
Next week Doris F. Givens will begin her new duties as the fifth president of the Kansas City, Kansas Community College. She is the first woman and the first African American to lead the college.
Elizabeth Warren, adviser to Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner, has announced that she is returning to her post as the Leo Gottlieb Professor at Harvard Law School. Warren was the first to propose the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and President Obama brought her to Washington last fall to oversee the creation of the new agency, which was authorized in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
The American Public University System offers 79 online degree programs through the American Military University and the American Public University. Founded in 1991, the university originally offered degree programs to military personnel but has now expanded to cover teachers and other public service workers. Headquartered in Charles Town, West Virginia, the university serves 90,ooo students worldwide. Most students are employed full-time and the average age of the student body is 31 years old.
Karan Powell was recently promoted to provost. She has been serving as senior vice president and academic dean. Dr. Powell joined the university’s board of trustees in 2002 and was named academic dean in 2005.
Also promoted to a new position is Gwendolyn Hall. She was named vice president and academic operations officers. She has been serving as dean of the School of Security and Global Studies. She joined the university’s faculty in 2005 after teaching at the U.S. Air Force Academy, working at the Pentagon, and as a staff member for the Select Committee on Homeland Security of the U.S. House of Representatives.
Joan B. Stone, former dean of the College of Imaging Arts and Sciences at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), has died after a 20-year battle with cancer. She was 69 years old.
Last month, University of Arizona president Robert Shelton left his post to become president of the Fiesta Bowl. Now Meredith Hay, who has served as provost at the University of Arizona since 2008 and has had somewhat of a rocky relationship with many members of the faculty, has been given a new assignment. She was named special adviser to the chair of the Arizona Board of Regents. Thus, the university has lost its top two administrators in a very short time.
Dr. Hay also served as a professor of physiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Before coming to the University of Arizona, Dr. Hay was vice president for research at the University of Iowa. She is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Denver. She holds a master’s degree in neurobiology from the University of Texas at San Antonio and a Ph.D. in cardiovascular pharmacology from the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
Jacqueline Lee Mok will replace Hay as provost until a search for a permanent replacement is found. Dr. Mok has been serving as senior vice president and chief of staff for the university president. 
This fall Joyce de Vries will assume the directorship of the women’s studies program at Auburn University in Alabama. She is an associate professor of art at the university. As an affiliate faculty member, Professor deVries has taught a women’s studies introductory class and a course on gender issues in the visual arts. She is the author of 
Nancy A. Collop, professor of medicine and neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine, was elected the 26th president of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. An expert in sleep-related breathing disorders, Dr. Collop will be the leader of the 9,000-member organization for the next year.
Kim Luckes was named executive vice president and chief operating officer at Norfolk State University in Virginia. For the past year, Luckes has served as acting president of the university. Previously, she was assistant to the president and liaison to the university’s board of visitors. Prior to coming to Norfolk State, she served as provost at St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh, North Carolina, and at Hampton University in Virginia.
Suzanne Fondrie, an associate professor of curriculum and instruction in the College of Education and Human Services at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is the 2011 winner of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. The contest, which was established at San Jose University in 1982, asks entrants to compose the worst opening sentence of an imaginary novel. Fondrie’s winning entry was: “Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.” Professor Fondrie’s winning entry was the shortest in the contest’s history.
Victoria Cowling, a researcher at the College of Life Sciences’ Division of Cell Biology and Immunology at the University of Dundee in Scotland received a Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine Research Award. The prestigious award comes with £200,000 to support her research over the next five years.
The Prairie Schooner Book Prize for fiction was awarded to Karen Brown, an instructor of English at the University of South Florida in Tampa. She was honored for her manuscript Leaf House. Brown will receive a cash award and her book will be published by the University of Nebraska Press. Her first collection of short stories, 
Susan Blackwell Ramsey, who teaches creative writing at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, won the 2011 Prairie Schooner Book Prize for Poetry. Her book, entitled A Mind Like This, will be published by the University of Nebraska Press.
St. Catherine University in St. Paul, Minnesota, received a five-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation designed to increase the number of women studying in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Under the program, students majoring in biology, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, physics, or engineering will be eligible for scholarships. Over the course of the next five years, at least 65 scholarships will be offered. Officials at the university have announced their intention to seek out students from the Hmong and Somali minority populations in Minnesota for the STEM scholarship program.
Hina Rabbani Khar was recently named foreign minister of Pakistan. She is the first woman to hold the position and, at 34, she is the youngest foreign minister in Pakistan’s history. She previously served as state minister for economic affairs and statistics.
Theresa Tensuan was named dean of multicultural affairs at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Since 2002, she has served as an assistant professor of English.
Sara L. Campbell is the new dean of the School of Nursing at the University of South Carolina Aiken. She was interim dean for the Mennonite College of Nursing at Illinois State University.
Laurie A. Leshin was appointed dean of the School of Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. The appointment is effective on October 1. She was deputy associate administrator of exploration systems for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Mary E. Kerr is the new dean at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. She also holds the May L. Wykle Endowed Professorship in Nursing. She was the deputy director of the National Institute for Nursing Research at the National Institutes of Health.
Victoria L. Bastecki-Perez was named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania. She has served in the position on an interim basis since July 2010 and has been on the faculty and held various administrative posts at the college for 15 years.
Sheri R. Notaro was appointed associate dean for inclusion and professional development at Cornell University. The appointment is effective August 19. She has been serving as associate dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
Margot Pritzker was named chair of the governing board of the University of Chicago Charter School. She has served on the governing board since 2007. The charter school has four campuses on Chicago’s South Side. Pritzker is a director of the Pritzker Early Childhood Foundation and founder and president of 
Esther S. Powell, director of nontraditional adult student services at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, was elected vice president of the 
Stephanie McClay was appointed the founding principal of the Hybrid High School at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The school will open this fall. The school will be open seven days a week and 50 weeks a year to accommodate students with family and job responsibilities.
Amy Glynn, associate vice chancellor for university relations at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, was named director of the UMass Amherst/Springfield Partnership, a program designed to promote collaborations between the university and the city that will lead to the revitalization of Springfield’s economy.
Karen J. Wheeler was appointed associate vice chancellor for policy, assessment, and diversity at the University of Arkansas Little Rock. She has been serving as associate director of the Arkansas Department of Higher Education.
Karen Timberlake was named director of the Population Health Institute at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. She has been serving as director of the Partnership for Healthcare Payment Reform. Previously, she was secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
Tessa Gould was appointed associate director of development for the University of South Dakota Foundation. From 2004 to early 2011, she served on the staff of U.S. Representative Stephanie Herseth Sandlin of South Dakota.
Ellen Smith was named director of the Hornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program at Brandeis University. The program offers four graduate-level, dual-degree programs. She is an associate professor in the program and an affiliate faculty member of the department of Near East and Judaic studies.
Cheryl J. Polson was named associate dean of the Graduate School and director of the outreach program at Kansas State University. She will be responsible for coordinating research and academic programs with Fort Leavenworth, a major U.S. Army post. She was a part-time associate dean at the Graduate School.
Jamie Shutter was appointed interim director of University Health Services at the University of Texas. She has served as associate director since 2007.
Michele Butts was appointed professor at the Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge. She was a professor at the John Marshall School of Law in Atlanta.
Anne Skaja Robinson was appointed chair of the department of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Tulane University in New Orleans. She will assume her new position in January. She is currently a professor at the University of Delaware.
Michelle Williams was named the Stephen B. Kay Family Professor of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health. She will also chair the department of epidemiology. Dr. Williams was a professor of epidemiology and global health at the School of Public Health at the University of Washington in Seattle.
Miriam H. Meisler was named the Myron Levine Distinguished University Professor of Genetics at the University of Michigan Medical School.
Nancy J. Miller is the new chair of the department of design and merchandising in the College of Applied Human Sciences at Colorado State University. She held the Burlington Professorship in the department of consumer apparel and retail studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Rosemary O’Leary was appointed the Edwin O. Stene Distinguished Professor of Public Administration at the University of Kansas. She will not take her new position until the spring semester in 2013. Currently, she is the Distinguished Professor of Public Administration and the Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management and Leadership at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.
Helen Neville, who holds the Robert and Beverly Lewis Endowed Chair at the University of Oregon, was selected to receive the 2011 Transforming Education Through Neuroscience Award from the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society. The award will be presented at the organization’s conference in Boston this November.
Karen VanDerhoof, vice president for business and finance at the County College of Morris in Randolph, New Jersey, received the 2011 Distinguished Business Officer Award from the National Association of College and University Business Officers. VanDerhoof has been an administrator at the college since 1992 and has served in her present position since 2005.
Janette L. Dates, dean of the School of Communications at Howard University in Washington, D.C., was inducted into the Minority Media & Telecom Council’s Hall of Fame for her work to bring greater diversity to the nation’s media. Dr. Dates has served as dean since 1996.
Katherine A. Kelley, associate professor of oceanography at the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island, won the 2011 Hisashi Kuno Award from the American Geophysical Union. The award is given to young scientists who have made significant contributions in the fields of geochemistry, volcanology, or petrology. She will receive the award at the AGU’s annual meeting in San Francisco this December.
Adria Baker, associate vice provost for international education and executive director of the Office of International Students and Scholars at Rice University in Houston, Texas, received the inaugural Knowledge Community for International Student and Scholar Services Award for Excellence from the National Association of Foreign Student Advisers of the Association of International Educators. Baker has worked in international education programs for the past 25 years.
Dr. Nathalie Petorelli and Dr. Seirian Sumner of the Institute of Zoology in London, an affiliate of the University of Cambridge, recently wrote a commentary in the London Guardian on the lack of women faculty in the sciences. The scientists report that 60 percent of the undergraduates studying biology in Britain are women. But only about one third of the university lecturers hired by biology departments are women. And women make up less than 15 percent of the full professors in the discipline.
Jean C. Robinson was named executive associate dean of the college. She is a professor of political science and has been serving as associate dean for faculty and academic programs. Previously, she served as director of women’s studies at Indiana University and dean for women’s affairs.
Maria Bucur-Deckard, the John W. Hill Professor of East European History at Indiana University, was named associate dean for faculty and academic programs. She previously served as chair of the department of gender studies at the university
Deborah Eisenberg, the award-winning short story author, is joining the writing program faculty at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Since 1964, Eisenberg has been a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia.
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Linda Maxson, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa for the past 14 years, announced that she will step down at the end of the 2011-12 academic year. Dean Maxson will remain on the faculty at the university. The college is the largest academic unit on campus compromising more than 50 departments and programs. During her tenure, Maxson has participated in the hiring of about half of the college’s current faculty.