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The Gender Gap in Engineering Bachelor’s Degrees Is Widening
A report from the American Society for Engineering Education shows that in 2004 women earned 20.3 percent of all bachelor’s degree awarded in engineering. By 2012, the percentage had dropped to 18.9 percent.
Elite Male Scientists Employ Fewer Women Assistants Than Other Male Faculty Members
Graduate assistants and postdocs in the laboratories of elite scientists are the most likely to be hired to tenure-track faculty posts. So a bias against women in these graduate assistant or postdoc positions, may be having an impact in the number of women hired to faculty jobs in STEM fields.
Four Women Scholars Are Taking on New University Teaching Positions
Lynn Nottage is joining the faculty at Columbia University. Janet Shibley Hyde at the University of Wisconsin and Anna Frebel at MIT have been appointed to named professorships and Janice Krieger was appointed to the faculty at the University of Florida.
MIT Institutes New Training Programs to Combat Sexual Misconduct
All new students will be required to undergo an online training program covers sexual harassment, sexual assault, interpersonal violence, and stalking before they arrive on campus. Undergraduates will attend an additional workshop when they arrive on campus and faculty and staff must also complete an online program.
Two Women Scientists Are Granted Tenure at MIT
Tanja Bosak is the Hayes Career Development Associate Professor in the department of earth, atmospheric and planetary sciences and Laurie A. Boyer is the Irvin and Helen Sizer Career Development Associate Professor in the department of biology.
Six Women in New Teaching Posts at Leading Universities
The women in new teaching roles are Carole R. Beal of the University of Florida, Denise Ogden of Penn State, Susan Shapiro of the University of Massachusetts, Theresa Rebeck at the University of Houston, J. Meejin Yoon of MIT, and Anne B. Newman at the University of Pittsburgh.
Four Women Named to Prestigious Faculty Positions
Sally Haslanger at MIT, Pamela Schultz at New Mexico State University, and Alison Wilson at West Virginia University were all named to endowed chairs. Cynthia Johnson Turner will join the University of Georgia faculty this fall as director of bands.
Seventeen Women in New Higher Education Administrative Positions
Here is this week’s summary of appointments and promotions of women to high-level administrative posts at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
University Research Finds Gender Bias in Venture Capital Funding Decisions
In one experiment where identical business plan videos were presented to venture capitalists, those plans with a male narrator were 68 percent more likely to be funded than plans where the video had a woman as the narrator.
Four Women in New Teaching Roles
The women in new teaching roles are Lydia Bourouiba at MIT, Sonja Stephenson Watson at the University of Texas at Arlington, Leah Hager Cohen at the College of the Holy Cross and Xiaohong Chen at Yale University.
Postdoctoral Program at MIT Expands Research Opportunities for Saudia Arabian Women
The Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy at MIT has greatly expanded a postdoctoral fellowship program that is is supported by funding from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals and Saudi Aramco Inc.
Seven Women Appointed to New Faculty Posts
The women appointed to new faculty assignments are Phaedra Corso, Gloria Choi, Jessica Stockholder, Tamara Laninga, Mellonee V. Burnim, Creola Johnson, and Leila Ladani.
The New Chancellor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
At MIT the chancellor is not the president but has oversight responsibility for graduate and undergraduate education at MIT, student life, student services, and other areas that impact student experience.
Honors for Four Women Academics
The honorees are Neri Oxman from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Karin Edwards of Three Rivers Community College in Connecticut, Ling Hwey Jeng of Texas Woman’s University, and Christine Starr Davis of Doane College in Nebraska
Two Women Stepping Down From Their Dean Positions
This spring Adle Naude Santos will step down as dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT and Mary Miller will leave her post as dean of Yale College. Both women will continue to teach at their universities.
Five Women Honored With Awards From the National Academy of Sciences
Allison J. Doupe, Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, Deborah S. Jin, Rebecca Saxe, and Elizabeth Shilin Spelke are honored.
Anthropologist Wins Research Prize from MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Manduhai Buyandelger, an associate professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has been awarded the university’s James A. and Ruth Levitan Prize in the Humanities. The award comes with a $25,000 prize to support her research
Two Women Named to New Teaching Posts
Debra Lyon was named to an endowed chair at the University of Florida College of Nursing and Hazel Sive, an associate dean at MIT’s College of Science is stepping down to return full-time to her post as professor of biology.
Sixteen Women Awarded Marshall Scholarships
Up to 40 Marshall Scholarships can be given out each year for two years of graduate study in Britain. This year the Marshall Foundation selected 34 winners. Sixteen are women. Four of the women are seniors at MIT.
A Dozen Women in New Higher Education Administrative Posts
The appointees are: Mary Ellen Gillespie, Katherine Ates, Marilyn Smith, Naomi Sigg, Fiona Murray, Virginia Chapman, Pamela Jeffries, Kimberly Logan, Denise Wilbur, Shari Clarke, Trish Boyles, and Rychetta Watkins.
In Memoriam: Ann J. Wolpert, 1943-2013
She was the director of libraries at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since 1996. Prior to joining MIT, Wolpert was executive director of library and information services at Harvard Business School.
Six Women in New Teaching Roles
The women in new faculty roles are Teresa Francis at Central Washington University, Anette Hosoi at MIT, Margarita Blush at the University of Connecticut, Carolyn Rude at Virginia Tech, Eno Ebong at Northeastern University, and Donna Alberston at New York University.
Three Women Join the Faculty at MIT
Sana Aiyar, Regina Bateson and Catherine E. Clark are new assistant professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In Memoriam: Pauline Rubbelke Maier, 1938-2013
Pauline R. Maier was the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of American History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. An expert on eighteenth-century America, she was the author of several award-winning books.
MIT’s Sallie Chisholm to Receive the $100,000 Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology
The award will be presented by the president of Catalonia to Professor Chisholm in Barcelona this coming October. In 1988, Dr. Chisholm was part of a team that discovered the world’s smallest, yet most abundant, photosynthetic organism.
Three Women Appointed New Leaders of Academic Programs at MIT
The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge has announced the appointments of three women faculty members to leadership posts. All three appointments become effective on July 1.
In Memoriam: Annamaria Torriani-Gorini, 1918-2013
A native of Milan, Italy, Professor Torriani-Gorini earned a Ph.D. in botany at the University of Milan. She came to the United States in 1956 and joined the biology department at MIT in 1960. She retired from MIT as a full professor in 1989.
Angela Belcher Wins the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
In her laboratory, Professor Belcher uses organic and inorganic materials to create new electronic materials that are used in solar cells, medical diagnostic equipment, and batteries. One of her most recent inventions is a lithium-ion battery powered by engineered viruses.
In Memoriam: Kanako Miura 1977-2013
Dr. Kanako Miura, a visiting scholar in humanoid robotics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was killed after being struck by a large truck while riding her bicycle in Boston. She was 36 years old.
Six Women Awarded $250,000 Hertz Fellowships in the Applied Sciences
The fellowships are considered to be the most generous support for graduate students in the applied physical, biological, and engineering sciences. Each fellow is eligible for awards of $250,000 over five years to support doctoral research.
In Memoriam: Emily Wick, 1921-2013
In 1959 she was hired as an assistant professor of chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 1968, she became the first woman faculty member to be granted tenure at MIT.
MIT Professor Named Dean of the Engineering School at Columbia University
Mary Cunnnigham Boyce is the Ford Professor of Engineering and chair of the department of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. Her research is focused on the molecular and nanomechanics of polymers.
Five Women Academics Honored With Major Awards
The honorees are Margaret Campbell of Wayne State University, Renee Sandell of George Mason University, Sahfi Goldwasser of MIT, Nanette Wenger of Emory University and H. Julia Hannay of the University of Houston.
Sexist Wristbands Distributed at Party Given by the MIT Media Lab
The wristbands had printed statements that many deemed offensive. Among the messages on the wristbands were, “That’s a nice dress. It would look great on my floor.”
Esther Duflo Wins the $1 Million Dan David Prize
Professor Duflo is being honored for her pioneering research on the prevention of diseases, including malaria and HIV, and the long-term health effects of indoor air pollution on women and children.
