Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions in the academic world. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Dr. Egeblad, a distinguished professor at Johns Hopkins University, studies tumor microenvironments, aiming to deepen the understanding of cancer initiation, progression, and metastasis.
Dr. Rutkow, professor of health policy, has been tapped to serve as interim provost at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Currently serving as executive vice provost, Dr. Rutkow is an expert on public health law and founder of the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center.
Dr. Poole taught at Johns Hopkins University for nearly two decades before retiring with emerita status in 2021. An anthropologist, she conducted extensive field research on politics in Mexico and Peru.
Dr. Sterbing taught undergraduate courses in psychological and brain sciences, behavioral biology, and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for over a decade.
Dr. Wendland previously spent five years as provost at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. She will serve in the same capacity at West Virginia University beginning July 1.
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.
