All Entries Tagged With: "Ohio State University"
When Highly Educated Couples Have a Baby, a Gender Gap Opens Up in Household Workload
An Ohio State University study found that when highly-educated, dual career couples had their first child, women had an increased home workload of about two hours a day while men added an average of 40 minutes in time spent on work in the home.
Honors and Awards for Four Women Scholars
The honorees are Christine Fletcher of Benedictine University in Illinois, Barbara A. Horwitz of the University of California, Davis, Susana Morales of the Weill Cornell Medical College, and Melanye White Dixon of Ohio State University.
Ohio State’s Bernadette Melnyk to Lead New Consortium That Aims to Build Healthy Academic Communities
Dr. Melnyk is the associate vice president for health promotion, chief wellness officer, dean of the College of Nursing, professor of pediatrics, and professor of psychiatry at Ohio State University in Columbus.
New Study Links Domestic Violence to Disruption in Women’s Hormone Levels
A study by scientists at the University of Oregon and the Oregon Social Learning Center links domestic violence against women to a disruption in a key hormone that could be related to a wide variety of negative health effects.
New Administrative Posts for 11 Women in Higher Education
The women with new administrative roles are Joan Gallagher, Susan S. Williams, Jean Rawlings Sumner, Bess Marcus, Leslie Chambers Strohm, Theresa Mendoza, Jyl R. Shaffer, Patricia R. DeLucia, Nancy R. Grden, Dorianne Johnson, and Shirley A. Weis.
New Faculty Posts for Six Women Scholars
The appointees are Trudy Tuttle Arriaga at California Lutheran University, Kathy S. Northern at Ohio State University, Laura P. Sands at Virginia Tech, Kelly Shannon at the University of Southern California, Katherine Sullivan at Berkeley College, and Lenore A. Grenoble at the University of Chicago.
Four Women Appointed to Endowed Chairs
The women appointed for endowed chairs are Anjali Joseph at Clemson University, Karen C. Johnson at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Judie F. Charlton at West Virginia University, and Katherine H. Federle at Ohio State University.
Eight Women in New Administrative Roles in Higher Education
The women in new administrative positions are Breona M. Hayes, Kay Wolf, Sondra Schreiber, Leanne M. Shank, Allyson Zazulia, Leandra Celaya, Tanya L. Jachimiak, and Eileen G. McLoughlin.
One Woman Among the Four Finalists for President of the University of Nebraska System
Sally Rockey is deputy director for extramural research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Previously, Dr. Rockey worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture for nearly 20 years.
Linda Brady to Step Down as Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Linda P. Brady, chancellor of the University of North Carolina Greensboro, has announced that she will step down on July 31, 2015 and return to teaching. She was named the university’s tenth chancellor in August 2008.
Western Kentucky University Scholar Honored by the American Folklore Society
Ann K. Ferrell, an assistant professor of folk studies at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, has been named the recipient of the 2014 Wayland D. Hand Prize for the outstanding book on historical and folkloristic perspectives from the American Folklore Society.
Two Women Psychologists Honored for Paper Written a Quarter Century Ago
In 1989 Jennifer Crocker, now of Ohio State University, and Brenda Major, now at the University of California, Santa Barbara, co-authored a paper on social stigma and self-esteem. Since then, the work has been cited more than 3,500 times by authors of other published works over the past quarter century.
Three Women With Ties to U.S. Universities Named Fellows of AMS International
The American Society for Metals was founded in 1913. Now known as ASM International, the society is the world’s largest association of metals-focused materials scientists and engineers. Four of the its 26 new fellows are women, three of whom hold current affiliations with American universities.
Five Women Scholars at American Universities Earn Notable Honors
The five honorees are Susan Muaddi Darraj of Harford Community College and Johns Hopkins University, Blanca Bernstein of Arizona State University, Susan V. Olesik of Ohio State University, Sheila Kennedy of MIT, and Jada Bussey-Jones of Emory University.
Ohio State University Fires Marching Band Director Over Sexual Harassment Charges
Ohio State University in Columbus has fired Jonathan Waters, the director of its marching band, saying that the band had an ingrained culture of sexual harassment toward women members. Women are about 21 percent of the band’s members.
Gender Role Beliefs May Differ in Mothers Who Ask to Know the Sex of Their Baby
A study by researchers at Ohio State University finds that women who choose not to learn the gender of their baby before birth tend to have more egalitarian views about the roles of men and women in society.
In Memoriam: Carolyn J. Merry, 1950-2014
Carolyn Merry, former professor and chair of the department of civil, environmental, and geodetic engineering at Ohio State University, was killed in an automobile crash on June 3 on Interstate 71 in Madison County, Ohio.
Only One Woman Among the New Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Ann Hamilton is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State University. She has been on the faculty at Ohio State since 2001. From 1985 to 1991, she taught on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Study Finds Long-Term Health Benefits of Breastfeeding May Be Overstated
Cynthia Colen, an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio State University, siblings raised in the same family when one was breastfed and the other was not had very similar health outcomes when they were between the ages of 4 and 14.
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.
Ohio State Sociologist Finds Marriage Promotion Is Ineffective in Fighting Poverty
Welfare reform legislation passed in 1996 made marriage promotion an official government policy. But research finds that single mothers in high poverty areas who wed are likely to marry men who will do nothing to help them get out of poverty.
Study Finds Diet Rich in Tomatoes May Decrease the Risk of Breast Cancer
The authors found women who had a diet rich in tomatoes and tomato-based products had higher levels of adiponectin, a hormone that has been associated with lower risk of breast cancer.
The New Dean of Graduate and Professional Studies at Indiana State University
Since 2010, Lynn Maurer has been serving as associate dean of the graduate school at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. She previously taught political science at SIUE for 15 years.
Seven Women Taking On New Administrative Duties in Higher Education
The women named to new administrative posts are Jean Davis, Crystal Crockett, Beverly Adams, Maria Anguiano, Ryann Randall, Noel Sloan, and Patricia A. Johnson.
Mothers Still Do Most of the Parenting in Dual-Career Households
Research at Ohio State University finds that women in dual-career couples still take on a substantial part of child care activities in the home. Women were found to spend 70 percent of their time when they were not working or sleeping on child care activities.
New Employment Website Aimed at Helping Dual-Career Couples in Academia
Ohio State University in Columbus and Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland have announced plans to establish a regional branch of the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium to address employment opportunity problems confronting dual-career couples.
Two Women Named to Key Teaching Posts at the University of Denver College of Business
Barbara Jackson was named the director of the Franklin L. Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management and Sharon Alvarez was appointed to the Koch Chair in Entrepreneurship.
Four Women Scholars Honored With Awards
The honorees are Sultana N. Nahar of Ohio State University, Susan Gilbert at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Elizabeth Harris of the University of North Dakota, and Vandana Khanna of the University of Southern California.
Ohio State University Graduate Student Wins Photojournalism Award for Work on Domestic Violence
Sara Lewkowicz, a graduate student at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio State University, has been selected to receive the international Ville de Perpignan Remi Ochlik award from the city of Perpignan in France. The award includes a cash prize of 8,000 euros.
Study Finds College Students Lie to Conform to Societal Expectations of Their Sexual Behavior
Men reported more sexual encounters when they were not hooked up to what they thought was a lie detector than men who were hooked up to the device. Women who were not hooked up to the machine reported fewer sexual encounters than women who were connected to the device.
New Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Seven Women Named to Faculty Posts
The women taking on new teaching roles are Frances Henderson at Maryville College, Lara Saguisag at the College of Staten Island, Geetha Sant at Washington University, Marjorie at IUPU Indianapolis, Susan Lawrence at Ohio State, Linda Walters at the University of Central Florida, and Renee Jolles at the University of Rochester.
Study Finds Gender Bias in the Perception of the Value of Scientific Papers
A new study by lead author Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, a professor of communication at Ohio State University, finds that the gender of the author of scientific papers can have an impact on how the research is received.
Study Finds That Student Loans Are More Important for College Women Than Men
The study by researchers at Ohio State University and Pacific Lutheran University found that at a certain level – which was $2,000 lower for men than women – debt had diminishing returns on whether or not the student would finish college.
Checking on the Faculty Gender Gap at Big Ten Universities
A study published in the student newspaper at Ohio State University finds that Ohio State ranks last among the 12 universities in the Big Ten Conference in percentage of women on its faculty. The University of Iowa has the largest percentage of women faculty.
