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Two Women Named to Department Chairs

Two Women Named to Department Chairs

Ann McKenna and Susan G. Polansky have been named to head their academic departments.

Five Women Honored With Prestigious Awards

Five Women Honored With Prestigious Awards

Here is news of five women honored for their scholarly research.

Carnegie Mellon Professor Elected President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Carnegie Mellon Professor Elected President of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics

Irene Fonseca, a native of Portugal, joined the faculty at Carnegie Mellon in 1987.

Barbara Liskov Wins Katayanagi Prize in Computer Science

Barbara Liskov Wins Katayanagi Prize in Computer Science

MIT professor is honored for her excellence in computer science research.

Carnegie Mellon Professor to Lead New Research Center

Carnegie Mellon Professor to Lead New Research Center

Priya Narasimhan was named c0-director of the Intel Science and Research Center for Embedded Computing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The center will be funded with a five-year, $15 million grant from Intel. The research will focus on technology innovations for the home, the car, and the retail environment. Mei Chen, senior research scientist […]

Faculty News: Five Women Receive Distinguished Appointments

Faculty News: Five Women Receive Distinguished Appointments

Melissa V. Harris-Perry was named professor of political science at Tulane University in New Orleans. There, she will also be the founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South. She was on the political science and African-American studies faculty at Princeton University. Her most recent book, Sister […]

Six Academic Women Honored for Scholarship or Service

Six Academic Women Honored for Scholarship or Service

Mary M. Doyle, vice chancellor for information technology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has been selected to receive the 2011 Distinguished Service Award from the Society for College and University Planning. Dr. Doyle holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from Arizona State University and a doctorate from the University of California, Santa […]