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Over the past five decades, women's total representation among authors published in the Journal of Biomechanics has increased from 5.5 percent in 1970 to 26.5 percent in 2020, with significant progress made in first and last author representation.

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].

Colleen Lanzoni is associate director of graduate student wellness at Penn State and Therese Doyle Tullis was named deputy director of athletics at Kean University in New Jersey. Sheriah Dixon is the new Title VI coordinator at Syracuse University in New York and Guadalupe Valencia was appointed interim chief financial officer at the University of the Virgin Islands.

Jennifer Ross is interim dean of the College of Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University, Carrie Zebrowsky Cooper is dean of university libraries at Florida State University, and Gwendolyn Lloyd is interim dean of the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University.

The women who have been appointed to new administrative positions are Jan Alexia Boulware at Savannah State University in Georgia, Tia Wright-Richards at Talladega College in Alabama, Tracy Moyer at Pennsylvania State University, and Debbie Mucarsel-Powell at George Washington University.

Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions at universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].

First appointed chancellor of Penn State Hazelton in 2022, Dr. Wright gained oversight of the Scranton and Wilkes-Barre campuses in 2024. She has taught English at the Hazelton location since 2000.

A three-time Penn State alumna, Dr. Wertheimer taught communication and women's, gender, and sexuality studies at Penn State-Hazelton. She was a scholar of women's rhetoric and political speech, particularly the voices of U.S. First Ladies.

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].

The administrative appointments are Becky Simcik at Pennsylvania State University, Angel Pointer at South Carolina State University, Usha Lee McFarling at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stacy Jones at the University of Georgia, Aimee Heeter at the University of Illinois, and Donna Blake at Utah State University Blanding.

The appointments are Jill Drouillard at Mississippi University for Women, Carrie Geiger at the University of Florida, Renata Engel at Pennsylvania State University, Cicilia Yudha at the University of Nevada-Reno, Jami Fukui at the University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center, and Allison Harris at Illinois State University.

Throughout her career, Maureen M. Black has made significant contributions to the intersection of child development and nutrition. Her research has served as a framework for key international programs aimed at advancing early childhood health and development globally.