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Dr. Jones was a women's studies scholar and cultural anthropologist. During her academic career, she taught courses at schools across the country including Merritt College in Oakland, California, where she served as chair of the anthropology department.

Dr. Crovitz was an associate professor of psychology at Duke University for over two decades. She also taught psychology courses at North Carolina Central University and saw patients at the Duke University Medical Center.

The new deans are Joelle Powers for Boise State University, Michelle Roehm for Bucknell University, María Scharrón-del Río for Brooklyn College, Shannon Sesterhenn for Midwestern University, and Heidi Hennik-Kaminski for Michigan State University.

Former Michigan State University professor Pauline Gordon Adams passed away on January 16. She was 101 years old.

Dr. McAlister first came to the Unversity of South Florida in 1982, After working for the state university system, she returned to the University of South Florida in 1987 as a professor of philosophy and women’s studies, specializing in feminist philosophy, the history of women in philosophy, and feminist film studies. She served as chair of the philosophy department from 1996 to her retirement in 1999.

In 1970 Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, established the Black Studies Center. Dr. Miller was the founding associate director. Within two years she became the director. She served in that role until 1984.

Paule Marshall taught at both Virginia Commonwealth University and New York University. She numerous novels, essays, and works of short fiction.

Bernice Sandler was often referred to as the "godmother of Title IX." When she applied for her first job in academia, she was told she came "on too strong for a woman."

Naylor, who taught creative writing at several univeraities, was best known for her her 1982 novel The Women of Brewster Place, for which she won the National Book Award for the best first novel.

President Anderson has been serving as a professor and dean of the City University of New York School of Law. She has held that post since 2006. Earlier, she taught at the Villanova University School of Law in Pennsylvania.

Carolyn Falk was a longtime K-12 educator and adjunct professor at Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven. For a decade, she taught educational psychology classes at the university.

Winners of these prestigious scholarships are selected to pursue a year of postgraduate study at universities on the island of Ireland.