Barbara G. Wells, dean of the School of Pharmacy at the University of Mississippi, received the inaugural Career Achievement Award from the College of Psychiatric and Neurologic Pharmacists. Dean Wells was honored for her research in psychiatric pharmacotherapy and for her efforts to advance women’s health.
Dr. Wells holds a bachelor’s degree and a doctorate in pharmacy from the University of Tennessee.
Marianne F. Ivey, associate professor of pharmacy practices and administration at the University of Cincinnati’s James L. Winkle College of Pharmacy, was named the recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Practice Award from the International Pharmaceutical Federation. She will receive the award at the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences this September in Hyderabad, India.
Susan Singer, the Laurence McKinley Gould Professor of the Natural Sciences at Carelton College in Northfield, Minnesota, received the Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award from the Botanical Society of America.
Lara Lomicka Anderson, an associate professor of French at the University of South Carolina, received the prestigious Chevalier dans L’Order des Palms Academiques from the French Ministery of Education. Professor Anderson was honored for her innovative use of Twitter to promote the study of the French language.
Kim Vonnahme, an associate professor at North Dakota State University in Fargo, received the Early Career Achievement Award from the American Society of Animal Science.
Kim Pate was named director of athletics at the University of Illinois, Springfield. She will become acting director on July 26 and will become the permanent director on August 16. She has been serving as the athletics director at Brevard College in North Carolina.
Laura Conour is the new director of laboratory animal research and attending veterinarian at Princeton University. She was the senior director of U.S. laboratory animal medicine for preclinical services at Charles River Laboratories in Massachusetts. Previously she has taught at Mount Ida College, Thomas Jefferson University, Washington University, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Megan Seibel was appointed director of the Virginia Agriculture Leaders Obtaining Results (VALOR) program at Virginia Tech. The new program will include education programs to develop leaders and promote agriculture in Virginia.
Tiffany L. Stanley was named managing editor of a new online journal that will be published by the Danforth Center on Religion and Politics at Washington University in St. Louis. The journal will focus on the role of religion in public life, the political arena, and in higher education. Stanley has been working as a reporter for The New Republic.
Jennifer D’Andrea is the new director of counseling and psychological services at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. She has been a part-time psychoanalyst at the university for the past two years.
Jennifer Graf Sims was named staff ombuds officer at the University of Texas in Austin. She was associate ombuds officer for Bridgeport Education in San Diego. She previously taught at the University of Hawaii.
Cheryl B. Torsney was named interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has been serving as vice president and dean at Hiram College in Ohio. She is expected to serve in the post for one year while a search for a permanent provost is conducted.
Ellen Watson was appointed interim vice president for information technology and chief information officer at the University of Memphis. Since 2008 she has served as associate vice president for information technology at the university.
Lindsay Key was named communications officer for the Fralin Life Science Institute at Virginia Tech. She was a research communications specialist at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Sarah H. Reichard was appointed director of the University of Washington Botanic Gardens. The Botanic Gardens includes the university’s Center for Urban Horticulture, the 74-acre Union Bay Natural Area and shared oversight of the Washington Park Arboretum in Seattle.
On August 1 Julie Nagel will become director of industrial partnerships at the University of Kansas. In this position she will work to convert university technology and science into the marketplace. She has been serving as director of the Oncological Science Center at Purdue University’s Discovery Park.
Marion Harris was named interim associate dean for academic programs at North Dakota State University’s College of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Natural Resources. Dr. Harris is a professor of entomology at the university, having served on the faculty since 2000.
The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) presented two women with awards at its annual meeting in Tampa, Florida, this week. Barbara Morris, director of tax and international business for Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore received the NACUBO Tax Award.
Teresa Gordon, professor of accounting at the University of Idaho received the Daniel D. Robinson Accounting Award. Professor Gordon holds a Ph.D. from the University of Houston.
Sister M. Coleman Nee, who served as president of Marywood University in Scranton University from 1970 to 1988, has died at the age of 93. During her tenure as president, Marywood added 11 undergraduate degree programs and four graduate programs and established the School of Nursing and Social Work. In addition, the school admitted men for the first time.
Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau has promoted five women to full professor.
China Jude was named assistant vice president of athletics at Queens College, part of the City University of New York system. Jude has been serving as director of athletics at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.
Margaret Tungseth was appointed vice president for finance and administration and treasurer of Central College in Pella, Iowa. Her appointment is effective on September 18. She has been serving as the assistant treasurer and director of risk management at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota. She also taught business and economics classes at Concordia.
Mary J. Sansalone was appointed vice chancellor and chief executive officer of the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The university is a four-year educational institution that enrolls women from across South Asia. It will graduate its first class in 2013.
Entomology is the study of insects. The Entomological Society of America is the major organization of scholars in the field. The society recently elected 10 fellows who were chosen for their “outstanding contributions to research, teaching, extension, or administration.” The new fellows will be honored at the society’s annual convention this November in Reno, Nevada.
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Charisse Gillett was named the 17th president of Lexington Theological Seminary in Lexington, Kentucky. When she takes office on September 1, she will become the first woman and the first African American to lead the seminary. The seminary, founded in 1865, is affiliated with the Disciples of Christ.
Texas Tech University has been chosen by the Texas Department of State Health Services to conduct a pilot program to test strategies and tools to implement a mother-friendly workplace. The program will include the construction of five locations on campus that will serve as lactation support facilities. By becoming a mother-friendly workplace, the university hopes to attract working mothers as employees, to shorten maternity leaves, and to lower employee absenteeism.
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Bowie State University, the historically black educational institution in Maryland, has developed a new sexual assault awareness initiative. The Partners in Peace program was created to train the campus community on issues relating to domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking. The program includes mandatory training classes for all incoming students. Sexual violence workshops will be held during the fall semester as part of first-year seminars and in classes dealing with issues of human sexuality. A video presentation on sexual assault will be prepared in conjunction with students at the University of Maryland College Park that will be shown to students on both campuses.
In July 2012 Virginia Weckstrom and her husband Paul Kantor are joining the faculty of the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Weckstrom currently is on the chamber music and piano faculty at the Cleveland Institute of Music. At Rice, she will be an Artist Teacher of Piano Chamber Music and Accompanying. Prior to joining the Cleveland Institute, Weckstrom taught piano and directed the chamber music program at the University of Michigan.
On August 1, Roberta Sloan will become dean of the newly reorganized College of Fine Arts and Mass Communication at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Dr. Sloan has been serving as Faculty Arts Fellow and chair of the Commission on the Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia. She was chair of the department of theater at Temple from 2006 to 2010. She previously taught at the University of Central Florida and the University of Central Oklahoma.
Marye Anne Fox has announced tht she will step down as chancellor of the University of California at San Diego at the conclusion of the 2011-12 academic year. She will stay on at the university to teach and conduct research as a professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry. As of next summer, Dr. Fox will have served eight years as chancellor.
Vicki Stieha was named director of the new Foundational Studies Program at Boise State University in Idaho. The program will replace the university’s core curriculum with a new multidisciplinary framework that will extend the university’s educational experience beyond the classroom with internships, teamwork projects, government service, study abroad programs, and service-learning initiatives. The new program is slated to go into effect in the fall of 2012.
The journal Early Modern Women is devoted to the study of women and gender in the years between 1400 and 1700. It was founded in 2006 at the Center for Renaissance and Baroque Studies at the University of Maryland.
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Jennifer W. Cole, an associate professor of anesthesiology at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died late last week from injuries sustained in a biking accident. Dr. Cole was riding when she was struck by an SUV and thrown from her bike. She was 52 years old. Dr. Cole had been on the faculty of the medical school since 1991.
Earlier today, Carolyn Goldmark Goodman was sworn in as the 20th mayor of the city of Las Vegas, Nevada. Goodman cruised to a landslide victory in the June 7 election. Goodman replaces her husband Oscar Goodman who served for four terms.
Michelle Witt was named executive director of Meany Hall and artistic director of the University of Washington World Series. She was executive director of the San Francisco-based dance company Robert Moses’ Kin.
The University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine has announced that Nancy Rosenthal was reappointed the Walter L. Bierring Professor of Clinical Education for a five-year term. She was reappointed to the endowed position in recognition of her contributions to the college and for outstanding teaching.
Young-a Park has joined the Asian studies faculty in the School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was an assistant professor of anthropology at Knox College in Illinois. This fall she will teach a course entitled, “Globalization in East Asia.”
Barbara Landau was named vice provost for faculty affairs at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She has been serving as the Dick and Lydia Todd Professor and chair of the department of cognitive science at the university.
Johnette McCrery was appointed interim vice chancellor of university development at Louisiana State University, Shreveport. She was the publisher of SB Magazine.
Virginia Rentko was named medical director of the Foster Hospital for Small Animals and the Hospital for Large Animals at the Grafton campus of Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine.
Sonya Malunda was promoted to senior associate vice president for community engagement at the University of Chicago. She has served as an administrator at the university since 1998.
Jennifer Frum was appointed interim vice president for public service and outreach at the University of Georgia. She has been serving as interim director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government at the university.
Ro Di Brezzo, University Professor of kinesiology and director of the Human Performance Lab in the College of Education and Health Professions at the University of Arkansas, was named interim vice provost for academic affairs at the university. She will continue to teach in addition to her new administrative duties. She previously taught at Central Michigan University and Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.
Asya Besova Cooley is the new assistant director of annual giving at the Mississippi State University Foundation. She was a research associate at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.
Jana Doggett was promoted to executive associate athletics director at Utah State University. For the past five years, she has served as senior associate athletics director for external operations at Utah State.
Tomalei Vess was appointed director of the newly created Office of Undergraduate Research at Virginia Tech. She was associate director for education, training, and academic development at the Institute for Genome Sciences and policy at Duke University.
Jan Merrill-Oldham, who retired last fall from her post as Malloy-Rabinowitz Preservation Librarian at Harvard University Library, has been honored by the American Library Association. A new professional development grant from the Association of Collections and Technical Services and Preservation and Reformatting Section of the American Library Association will be named in her honor. The grant will provide funds for a library professional to travel and participate in an ALA conference.
Kamran Daneshjoo, the minister of higher education in Iran, recently ordered a study to gauge the feasibility of segregating colleges and universities in the country by gender. Primary and secondary schools in Iran are already segregated, but men and women attend classes together at most coeducational institutions of higher education.
“Women’s colleges tended to be dismissed 20 years ago as nice places with nice girls who are either privileged or have some reason not to be in the mix at a coed institution. I’ve never thought of Mills as a college that just happens to enroll women. I’ve thought about Mills as a college that can demonstrate to the world how powerful women are.”
Katherine Kantardjieff is the new dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at California State University San Marcos. She was a professor and chair of the department of chemistry at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona. She also was director of the Keck Foundation Center for Molecular Structure at the university. Prior to joining the faculty at Cal Poly in 2009, she taught at California State University Fullerton for more than two decades. She is currently chair of the United States National Committee for Crystallography at the National Academy of Sciences.
Five historically black universities in Louisiana are sharing a $125,000 grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation to support scholarship programs for women. The grants will support the Coca-Cola Last Mile Scholarships, which benefit women who are the first in their families to attend college. The program supports women who are college seniors without the financial means to complete their degrees.
Following a seven-month federal investigation, the University of Notre Dame has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Department of Education to change its sexual assault reporting procedures. Under the agreement, the university will file periodic reports with the Education Department and has agreed to complete administrative reviews of all sexual assault complaints within 60 days. And the university agreed to several procedural changes when dealing with sexual assault cases. For example, the university agreed to amend its policies so that the victim would not be required to be in the same room as the accused during disciplinary hearings.
France A. Córdova, president of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, announced that she will step down as president at the end of the 2011-12 academic year. Dr. Córdova became president of Purdue on July 16, 2007. Previously, she was chancellor and distinguished professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California at Riverside. A former NASA scientist, she also taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
DuPont, the large multinational conglomerate based in Wilmington, Delaware, has announced its 2011 class of DuPont Young Professors. Each young professor will receive $75,000 in three annual grants of $25,000.
LaShanda Teresa James Korley is the Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor in the department of macromolecular science and engineering at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. Her research is focused on bio-mimetic approaches to toughening and mechanical enhancement of polymers.
Natalia de Leon is an assistant professor of agronomy at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She is conducting research on maize breeding and genetics.
The University of Wisconsin has announced that Robin A. Douthitt, dean of the School of Human Ecology, will step down at the end of the 2011-12 academic year. Dean Douthitt joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin in 1986, teaching in the department of consumer science. She was named dean of the School of Human Ecology in 2001, after serving for 18 months as the interim dean. During her tenure as dean, annual research grants grew from $206,000 in 2001 to a projected $15.1 million in 2012. Dr. Douthitt, who holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, founded the Women’s Faculty Mentoring Program at the University of Wisconsin.