A team of researchers from Johns Hopkins University has found Black and Hispanic women are significantly less likely than Asian and White women to have a successful live birth after fertility treatment. Significant disparities in successful fertility outcomes were also found based on women's educational attainment.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently announced the 22 latest recipients in its fellowship program, commonly referred to as “genius grants.” Of this year’s 22 winners, sixx are women scholars with current ties to the academic world in the United States.
The Living Legends are Dyanne Affonso of the University of Toronto, Connie Delaney of the University of Minnesota, Judith Haber of New York University, Christine Miaskowski of the University of California, San Francisco, and Phyllis Sharp of Johns Hopkins University.
Ingrid Katz comes to Yale from Harvard Medical School, where she has taught for the past 16 years. In her new role, she will work with other leaders in medicine, public health, and nursing to advance global health activities throughout the Yale community and beyond.
The new endowed professors are Andjela Drincic at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Alison Barkoff at George Washington University, Gillian Hadfield at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Tamara Taggart at Rutgers University in New Jersey, and Rhesa Ledbetter at Hastings College in Nebraska.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].
The new deans are Mei Zhao at the University of North Florida, Emily Roper-Doten at Brandeis University, Melissa Craft at the University of Oklahoma, Stephani Etheridge Woodson at the University of Northern Colorado, Sandra Smith at Brown University, Keisha Pollack Porter at Johns Hopkins University, Lisa Saltzman at Bryn Mawr College, and Saskia van de Gevel at Virginia Tech.
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 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 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].
A distinguished professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Dr. Haraway is an expert in feminist philosophy and a historian of science. For her many academic contributions, she has been awarded the 2025 Erasmus Prize.
