The Pew Charitable Trusts recently announced that 21 researchers are joining the Pew Scholars Program in the Biomedical Sciences. These early-career scientists will receive four years of funding to explore cutting-edge research uncovering insights into human health and disease. Seven of the new Pew Scholars are women.
Dr. Schiebinger is a leading authority on sex and gender in the history of science and the study of women scientists in the eighteenth century. She has been a faculty member at Stanford University for more than two decades.
Dr. Warren was the founding director of the program in women's studies at Princeton University. Later in her career, she taught at Harvard University and Brown University, where she served as director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women.
The maternal mortality rate in the United States surpasses rates of all high-income countries in Europe and Asia; however, recent increases in maternal mortality do not apply uniformly, according to a new study led by the University of Michigan's Arline Geronimus.
Dr. Bryant was a longtime administrator at several higher education institutions throughout the state of Florida. She was the first woman to serve as interim president of Florida Memorial University and Florida A&M University.
Dr. Gamson was a longtime professor at the University of Michigan and the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she founded the doctoral program in higher education and the New England Resource Center for Higher Education.
Dr. Whiting, a scholar of architectural history and theory, is the first woman to serve as dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She previously served as dean of the School of Architecture at Rice University in Houston.
Dr. Simmons has served as president of Smith College, Brown University, and Prairie View A&M University. When she was appointed president of Brown, she became the African American woman to lead an Ivy League school.
Mechthild Tegeder of Washington State University, MarÃa P. Aranda of the University of Southern California, Andrea Hohmann of Indiana University, and Rupali Chandar of the University of Toledo have all been granted prestigious faculty titles. Professor Karin Öberg was named senior vice provost for faculty at Harvard and Professor Tonya Peeples was appointed a special adviser to the provost at Penn State.
In the 1990s, Dr. Glenn became the first woman to serve as dean of the School of Education at Howard University. During her career, she also held leadership positions at the National Education Association and George Washington University.
“I have been fortunate to lead a remarkable team in building the frameworks, practices, and resources that enable Harvard to attract and retain the best and brightest scholars from around the world and support them in their work," said Judith Singer, who will step down from her role as Harvard's senior vice provost for faculty on June 30.
