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Six Women Scholars in New Faculty Roles at Universities
Taking on new faculty roles are Sana Khan Hussaini at San Francisco State University, Desirée Plata at MIT, Kristen Granger at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Alexandra Navrotsky at Arizona State University, Sharon Jacobs at the University of California, Berkeley, and Claire Jiménez at the University of South Carolina.
Six Women Who Are Taking on New Administrative Duties in Higher Education
Taking on new administrative jobs are Cigdem Talgar at Tufts University in Massachusetts, Stacey Bradley at the University of South Carolina, Ahyana King at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Amy Armstrong at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Jennifer McCarrel at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and Tammy Kenber at the University of California, Davis
Jinliu Wang Appointed President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts
Dr. Wang has been serving as executive vice president for research, innovation, and knowledge enterprise at Ohio State University. Earlier she was senior vice chancellor for research and economic development for the State University of New York System and interim president of SUNY Polytechnic Institute.
Ranking the States by the Percentage of Women Among Their Doctoral Degree Recipients
In 2021 California awarded the most doctorates to women of any other state. Only five states awarded more doctorates to women than men: Mississippi, Nevada, Hawaii, Minnesota, and Maine. Hawaii had the highest percentage of women among its doctoral degree recipients.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Positions in Higher Education
The four women who have been appointed to endowed positions are Christina Maranci at Harvard University,. Julie E. Bauman at George Washington University Cancer Center in Washington, D.C., Lisa T. Alexander at the Boston College School of Law, and Ashley Franklin at Texas Christian University.
Three Women Who Have Been Appointed Diversity Officers in Higher Education
Jessica Funes is the inaugural coordinator for inclusion in the Office of Veterans Affairs at the City University of New York. Jennifer Hamer was appointed special adviser to the president of Pennsylvania State University for institutional equity and Sandra Mitchell will become the inaugural senior diversity officer at the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s University in St. Joseph, Minnesota.
Marie Lynn Miranda Will Be the Tenth Chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago
Marie Lynn Miranda has been named the tenth chancellor of the University of Illinois Chicago and a vice president of the University of Illinois System, effective July 5, 2023. The University of Illinois Chicago enrolls more than 22,000 undergraduate students and nearly 12,000 graduate students, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. […]
Catherine Lucey Appointed Provost at the University of California, San Francisco
Dr. Lucey currently serves as vice dean for education and executive vice dean of the School of Medicine at the university. Before coming to UCSF in 2011, Dr. Lucey was interim dean of medicine at Ohio State University. Earlier, she was chief resident at San Francisco General Hospital.
Two Women Presidents Announce Their Intentions to Leave Their Posts in 2023
Patti Neuhold-Ravikumar, president of the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmund has announced her intent to leave the university, effective January 31, 2023 and Susan Muscarella, founding president of the California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley, has announced she will be stepping aside from the presidency in May 2023 to concentrate on teaching.
American Society of Chemistry Awards Emily Lenning Its 2022 Teaching Award
Emily Lenning, professor of criminal justice at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina, was recognized for her ability to meet the needs of diverse learners and for challenging herself and her students to look beyond the classroom for opportunities to engage in lifelong learning.
New Administrative Roles for Eight Women at U.S. Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Four Women Who Are Taking on New Roles Relating to Diversity in Higher Education
The four women who have been appointed to diversity positions are Victoria Shannon Sahani at Boston University, Shawna Nesbitt at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Nicole Hodges Persley at the University of Kansas, and Barbara Lofton of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas.
Five Women Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions
The five women appointed to dean posts are Helen Boucher at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, Karlene Burrell-McRae at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, Toddi Steelman at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, Leah Tolbert Lyons at Middle Tennessee State University, and Patricia Rhynders at Trident University International in Chandler, Arizona.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Harvard’s Xiaowei Zhuang Honored by the Boehringer Ingelheim Foundation for Her Work in Cell and Neurobiology
Dr. Zhuangs’ invention, STORM — short for STochastic Optical Reconstruction Microscopy — is one of the first imaging technologies to overcome the physical boundary (diffraction limit) of resolution in light microscopy. It thus enables us to observe single proteins performing their job within the crowded environment of intact, living cells.
Rosie Rimando-Chareunsap Appointed Interim Chancellor of the Seattle Colleges
Dr. Rimando-Chareunsap has been with Seattle Colleges for 22 years. She started as a student success specialist in the TRiO Educational Talent Search and Upward Bound programs. She later served as vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion for the district. Dr. Rimando-Chareunsap has been president of South Seattle College since 2018.
The Huge Gender Gap in Academic Entomology
A new study by Karen Walker, a former scientist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, finds that women pursuing careers in entomology face persistent challenges in obtaining jobs compared to men. Among entomologists obtaining a Ph.D. between 2001 and 2018, 17 men had earned full-professor status in university entomology departments. Just one woman had obtained full professor status.
Mississippi University for Women to Consider Changing Its Name
The school was chartered in 1884. In 1920, the institution was renamed the Mississippi State College for Women. In 1974 the school was renamed again to Mississippi University for Women. In 1982, men were admitted to all programs. Today about 18 percent of the student body is male.
Amy Goldberg Appointed Dean of the School of Medicine at Temple University in Philadelphia
Amy J. Goldberg, the George S. and Louise C. Peters Chair of Surgery and Temple University Health System surgeon-in-chief, was the first woman to serve as Temple’s chair of surgery and is now the first to serve as medical school dean.
Kimberly Cook Honored for Lifetime Achievement by the American Society of Criminology
Kimberly Cook, professor in the department of sociology and criminology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, was recognized for her scholarship and activism in the fields of violence against women, wrongful convictions, feminist criminology, restorative justice, and survivor criminology.
Study Finds Role-Playing May Boost Young Girls’ Interest in STEM Fields
A new study by scholars at Yale University, Duke University, and the University of Chicago, finds that science role-playing may help tighten the gender gap in science, technology, engineering, and math education and careers for women simply by improving their identity as scientists.
Sylvia Trent-Adams Appointed President of the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth
Before joining the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth in 2020, Dr. Trent-Adams was Deputy Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps., then she was named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health. Early in her career, She was a nurse officer in the U.S. Army and a research nurse at the University of Maryland.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Bonnie Fleming Has Been Named Chief Research Officer at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Dr. Fleming was a professor of physics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale University and a faculty member of Yale’s Wright Lab. She had been on the faculty at Yale since 2004. She will also hold a faculty position as a professor of physics at the University of Chicago.
New Roles in Higher Education for Eight Women Scholars
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Arizona State University’s Ariane Middel Is the New President of the International Association for Urban Climate
Dr. Middel is an assistant professor in the School of Arts, Media and Engineering and the School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence at Arizona State. She joined the faculty in 2018. Previously, Dr. Middel was an assistant professor in the department of geography and urban studies at Temple University in Philadelphia.
The Gender Gap in Median Income Widened in 2021
In 2021, the median income level for family households headed by a single woman was 72.6 percent of the median income for family households headed by a single man. Women had median earnings from work in 2021 of $39,201. For men, median earnings were $50,983. Thus women earned 76.9 percent of what men earned.
Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
Four Women Who Have Been Appointed Diversity Officers at Colleges and Universities
Taking on new duties relating to diversity are Alesia LeSane at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, Amanda Ybarra at South Puget Sound Community College in Olympia, Washington, Nkenge Friday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Jamila Jefferson-Jones at the University of Kansas School of Law.
Does Using Gender-Neutral Language Impact Stereotypes of Women in Leadership Positions?
A new study led by Allison M.N. Archer of the University of Houston and co-authored by Cindy D. Kam of Vanderbilt University in Nashville examined the effects of using gender-neutral language such as “chair” versus traditional terms such as “chairman.”
How to Close the Gender Gap in the Cybersecurity Workforce
A joint study by Boston Consulting Group and The Global Cybersecurity Forum finds that women still only make up a quarter of the workforce in the field of cybersecurity. And the global cybersecurity workforce would need to grow by 80 percent to meet the current demand. The report outlines a number of strategies to close the gender gap and satisfy the demand for more workers in the field.
Sara Quay Is the New Provost at Endicott College in Beverly, Massachusetts
For the past 25 years, Dr. Quay has worked at Endicott, first as assistant dean of Arts & Sciences, then as dean of the School of Education and director of the Endicott Scholars program. In 2021, she was named the inaugural vice provost where she had oversight of the Office of International Education, the Office of Career & Internship, Halle Library, the registrar, and Endicott’s assessment initiatives.
Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointments of a Dozen Women to Administative Positions
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
