Lehigh University, the highly ranked educational institution in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, has 27 new faculty members this fall. Thirteen of the new faculty members are women.
An analysis of the list of the 70 new members of the Institute of Medicine by WIAReport finds that 28, or 40 percent, are women. Most have current affiliations with academic institutions.
Of the 96 new fellows of the American Chemical Society, 21 are women. Ten of the new fellows are women who have current affiliations with academic institutions in the United States.
The five women appointed to named chairs at the University of Chicago are Maryellen L. Giger, Lauren Berlant, Karin Knorr Cetina, Elisabeth S. Clemens, and Susan C. Levine.
Smith College, the highly rated liberal arts college for women in Northampton, Massachusetts, has announced the appointment of 16 new faculty members. Eleven of the 16 new appointees are women.
President Obama recently presented National Humanities Medals to 12 Americans. Six of the winners are women and five have strong ties to the academic world.
The four women who will be awarded the National Medal of Science are Sallie Chisholm of MIT, Sandra Farber of the University of California Santa Cruz, Lucy Shapiro of Stanford University, and Anne Treisman of Princeton University.
