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Nine Women Assuming New Administrative Roles in Higher Education
Here is news of nine women who have or will soon be taking on new duties.
Two Women Scholars Honored for Their Collection of Samuel Beckett Letters
Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and Lois More Overbeck are affiliated with the Laney Graduate School at Emory University.
Three Women Named to New Faculty Posts
Carmen-Helena Tellez, Deborah Watkins Bruner, and Katie Boes receive new appointments.
New Grant Programs Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Five Women Academics Win Awards
Kimberly Ruebel, Estela Mara Bensimon, Jill Beech, Dedra Cantrell, and Karyn Purvis are honored.
Two Women in Academic Medicine Are Honored by the American Heart Association
Nanette K. Wenger and Laura Wexler receive awards from the AHA’s Council on Clinical Cardiology.
Emory University’s Sheryl Gabram Named Surgeon-in-Chief at Atlanta’s Grady Memorial Hospital
She is a renowned breast surgical oncologist.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Sister to Be Honored With the James Weldon Johnson Medal
Willie Christine King Farris is an associate professor of education at Spelman College.
Frances Smith Foster Wins the Gittler Prize From Brandeis University
The prize recognizes “outstanding and lasting contributions to racial, ethnic, and religious relations.”
Two Women Named Regents Researchers by the University System of Georgia
Gisele Bennett and Suzanne Eskin receive the system’s highest academic honor.
The New President of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Emory University professor Nancy Collop will serve a one-year term.
Four Women Appointed to Distinguished Faculty Positions
Deborah Watkins Bruner, Pinar Keskinocak, Angela Gronenborn, and Deborah Feltz have been named to new posts.
Emory Researcher Installed as President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
Debra Houry’s research focuses on the prevention of violence against women.
Six Women Honored for Their Achievements in the Academic World
A doctor, an athletic director, an astronomer, and a First Lady were among six women receiving accolades.
A Wealth of New Administrative Appointments
Here is news of 11 women who have been named to important posts in higher education administration.
Universities Procure Research Grants on Issues of Importance to Women
Mahua Choudhury, of the University of Colorado School of Medicine in Denver, received a $100,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for research on finding a cure for preeclampsia in pregnant women.
Significant Appointments of Women to Administrative and Faculty Positions
Kenya Taylor, dean of graduate studies and research at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, was appointed associate vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at the university. She has served on the faculty at the university since 1996. Previously she taught in the department of communications disorders at Texas Christian University. Dr. Taylor holds […]
Notable Faculty Appointments
Stephanie G. Adams was named chair of the engineering education department at Virginia Tech. She is currently an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. She will assume her new position in August. Dr. Adams is a graduate of North Carolina A&T State University. She holds a master’s degree in systems engineering from […]
