All Entries Tagged With: "Franklin and Marshall College"
Alicia Timme-Laragy Named Outstanding Young Investigator by the Society of Toxicology
Dr. Timme-Laragy is an associate professor of environmental life sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research aims to elucidate cellular and molecular mechanisms of toxicant-induced oxidative stress in embryonic development and identify later-life consequences of embryonic exposure to oxidative stress.
Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions
Laurie Sharp has been named dean of the new University College at Tarleton State University in Texas. Jessica Collogan has been named dean of library services at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke and Deb Moriarity was appointed interim dean of student affairs at Franklin and Marshall College in Pennsylvania.
Kathleen Harring Is the Thirteenth President of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Dr. Harring as served as interim president since last summer. In 2017, she was named provost at the college. Dr. Harring has been on the faculty in the college’s psychology department since 1984.
Kathleen Harring Selected to Lead Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania
Since April 2017, Dr. Harring has served as provost of Muhlenberg College. Previously she held other roles at the college including vice president and dean of institutional effectiveness and planning, dean of institutional assessment and academic planning, and chair of the psychology department.
Wanda Austin Is the New Leader of the University of Southern California
From 2008 to 2016, Dr. Austin was president and CEO of The Aerospace Corporation, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to the application of science and technology relating to the nation’s space program. She was the first woman and the first African American to serve as CEO of the organization since its founding in 1961.
Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Names its Next President
Since 2015, Dr. Barbara K. Altmann has been serving as provost at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Earlier, Dr. Altmann was a professor of French and senior vice provost for academic affairs at the University of Oregon.
Five Women Named to the Nineteenth Class of George Mitchell Scholars
Winners of the prestigious George J. Mitchell Scholarships are selected to pursue a year of postgraduate study at universities on the island of Ireland. Students are selected on the basis of academic merit, leadership, and service. This year, five of the 12 Mitchell Scholars are women.
