Tag: Duke University

Crystal Sanders' award-winning book, A Forgotten Migration: Black Southerns, Segregation Scholarships, and the Debt Owed to Public HBCUs, explores Black southerners' efforts to secure post-baccalaureate education during the era of legal segregation.

This year, 10 scholars at Duke were awarded named professorships under the Bass Felllow program: Four of these appointments went to women.

The amount of academic literature regarding the healthcare of women veterans published between 2016 and 2023 was double that of the prior eight years.

The women who have received new academic appointments are Jackie Goodway at Michigan State University, Amanda Randles at Duke University, Constance Katsafanas at Florida Atlanta University, Andrea Nahmod at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Alex Klein at Washington and Lee University.

Dr. West, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Virginia, has spent the past three decades developing nanomedicine technologies to address unmet medical needs.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new dean positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].

Currently, there is a severe shortfall in the number of professionals working in cybersecurity - a field where women are significantly underrepresented. By advancing women's participation in the field, scholars at Duke University hope to mitigate this shortfall, ultimately leading to a stronger global cybersecurity workforce.

Dr. Kiss comes to Union College from the Rhodes Trust in Oxford, where she serves as the organization's first woman CEO. She has significant experience in academic leadership, including 12 years as president of Agnes Scott College in Georgia.

Since assuming her role as dean of the University of Richmond School of Law in 2011, Perdue has helped the school develop new academic offerings, secure new funding, expand its alumni network, and enhance its infrastructure.

The award winners are Kiana Aran of the University of California, San Diego and Amanda Randles of Duke University in North Carolina. Both women were recognized for developing breakthrough biomedical technologies.

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 [email protected].

Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.