The new deans are Tracey Turner at Liberty University in Virginia, Jenna Lowder at Mohave Community College in Arizona, Bettina Mrusek at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and Hillary Richardson at Mississippi University for Women.
Lynne Coy-Organ has been named the first woman president of Husson University in Maine. She has served as the university's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs for the past 15 years.
Lisa Sosin is a professor in the department of counselor education and family studies and the director of the Ph.D. program in counselor education and supervision at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. She is being honored by the Association for Creativity in Counseling.
Rebecca Fay, an assistant professor of accounting at East Carolina Univerity in Greenville, North Carolina, died on January 2 in the Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Virginia, from injuries suffered in an automobile crash. She was 38 years old and the mother of two young children.
At the age of 18, Gabrielle Turnquest of Windemere, Florida, passed the Bar Professional Training Course to become a qualified barrister in England and Wales. She is the youngest qualified barrister in the 600-year history of the training regimen.
