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Nineteen Women With New Administrative Posts at U.S. Colleges and Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Seven Women Faculty Members Taking on New Roles
Taking on new assignments are Barbara Cantalupo at Pennsylvania State University, Alicia Carriquiry at Iowa State University, Hannah Scherer at Virginia Tech, Helen Elaine Lee at MIT, Natasha Kirienko at Rice University, Maria Doerfler at Duke University, and Katie Corcoran at West Virginia University.
Melissa Givens Wins a Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance
Givens is an adjunct professor at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and Texas Southern University in Houston. She is also a doctoral student in music at the University of Houston.
The Three Finalists for This Year’s $250,000 Cherry Award for Great Teaching Are All Women
The three finalists for the $250,000 Cherry Award are Teresa C. Balser of the University of Florida, Michelle Rae Hebl of Rice University, and Lisa Russ Spaar of the University of Virginia.
Seven Women in Academia Honored With Prestigious Awards
The honorees are Angela Morales of Glendale Community College, Naomi Halas and Kathleen Matthews of Rice University, Maria A. Serrat of Marshall University, Kathleen Lane of the University of Kansas, Carol Tonge Mack of the University of Cincinnati, and Julie M. Goddard of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
New Provosts at Three High-Ranking Colleges and Universities
The women who have been named to provost posts are Marie Lynn Miranda at Rice University in Houston, Susan C. Baldridge at Middlebury College in Vermont, and Barbara K. Altmann at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsyvlania.
Rice University Scholar Elected to the Turkish Academy of Sciences
Yildiz Bayazitoglu, a native of Turkey, holds the Harry S. Cameron Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Rice University in Houston, Texas. She has taught at Rice since 1977.
New Faculty Posts at Leading Universities for Six Women
Taking on new teaching roles are Margaret Karagas at Dartmouth, Jennifer Alexander at the Air Force Academy, Naomi Halas at Rice University, Constance Iloh at the University of California, Irvine, Nancy Nelson Hodges at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and Deepa Bhojwani at the University of Southern California.
Seven Women Appointed to New Administrative Posts at American Universities
The new appointees are Kecia Thomas at the University of Georgia, Ingrid Stafford at Northwestern, Leanne Ketterlin-Geller at Southern Methodist, Klara Jelinkova at Rice, Kristen Dauphinais at the University of North Dakota, Natalie Lutz at the University of Kansas, and Ann Copeland at Penn State.
Eleven Women With New Administrative Duties at Colleges and Universities
The women with new administrative roles in higher education are Sherrie Weldon, Tonia Moody, Monica Kimbrell, Nell Russell, Elizabeth Breul O’Rourke, Carolina Cruz-Neira, Stacey Kostell, Alexandrina Deschamps, Ann Saterbak, Diana Boyd, and Maria Mayberry.
Seven Women Named to New Faculty Posts at Major Universities
The appointees are Huyla Eraslan at Rice, Wendy Freeman at the University of Chicago, Carolyn Cannon at Texas A&M, Susan Kern at the College of William and Mary, Naminata Diabate at Cornell, Geraldine Knatz at the University of Southern California, and Nancy McGehee at Virginia Tech.
The First Ph.D. in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
The feminist studies program at the University of California, Santa Barbara has about 80 undergraduate students, but Dr. Thompson is the first recipient of a degree from the doctoral program that was established five years ago. She will now be a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University.
In Memoriam: Diana Poteat Stallings Hobby, 1931-2014
An academic, philanthropist, and editor, Diana Hobby was a long-time supporter of Rice University. For 12 years she served as associate editor of Studies in English Literature, a scholarly journal published by the university.
A Dozen Women Named to New Administrative Posts in Higher Education
The women in new administrative jobs are Kedra Ishop, Linda Oldham, Rosalie Richards, Karen Burg, Sandra Oerly-Bennett, Kimberly Johnson, Teresa Reeve, Stephanie Kit, Isabel Scarinci, Sandy Barbour, Caroline Levander, and LLJuna Weir.
This Week’s Roundup of Appointments of Women to Key Administrative Posts in Higher Education
The appointees are Shirley M. Collado, Shannon McGee, Christine Byrd-Jacobs, Lynn Babington, Mary Berry, Katherine Johnson Suski, Estela Gavosto, Beverly L. Downing, Rachel Reuben, A. Madison Cario, Marthe Druska Golden, Kimberly Washor, and Susan Goodin.
Three Women in Important New Teaching Roles at Major Universities
Barbara Klinger was named Provost’s Professor at Indiana University and Sonia Ryang was appointed to an endowed chair at Rice University in Houston. Joan Feigenbaum was named chair of the computer science department at Yale University.
Academic Workplace Bias Against Working Parents Hurts Overall Department Morale
The study by researchers at Rice and UC San Diego found that people who reported an awareness of the flexibility stigma in their departments — regardless of whether they are parents themselves — were less interested in staying at their jobs.
Ten Women Scholars Honored With Prestigious Awards
The honorees are Yiyun Li, Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Viola L. Acoff, Helen Berman, Phebe Cramer, Nancy Folbre, Janet Corson-Rikert, Nancy Gertner, kacey Di Giacinto, and Dorinda Carter Andrews.
Rice University Scholar Named Co-Editor of Cultural Anthropology
When the journal returns to Rice University in February 2015, Cymene Howe, an assistant professor of anthropology with a Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico, will share editing duties with two other anthropologists at Rice.
Eight Women Taking on New Administrative Roles in Higher Education
The women taking on new assignments are Jan Bond, Leanne Wirkkula, Margaret Wagner Dahl, Jacqueline A. Faulkner, Margaret Dimond, Lori Baker-Lloyd, Rachel Fleck, and Carla Lupi
Women Academics Elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Recently, the National Academy of Engineering announced its 2014 class of new fellows. According to WIAReport‘s analysis, only eight of the 67 new members are women. Six have current ties to the academic world.
The New President of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Barbara E. Murray, a graduate of Rice University and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, is a professor and director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston.
Rice University’s Naomi Halas to Share the Isakson Prize
Naomi Halas, the Stanley C. Moore Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University, has been chosen to share the 2014 Frank Isakson Prize for Optical Effects in Solids from the American Physical Society.
Ten Women Taking on New Administrative Positions in Higher Education
Women taking on new roles are LaShondra Peebles, Michelle, Lepore, Linda Cataldo, Meredith Well-Lepley, Keeley M. Powell, Tamela McNulty Eitle, Nancy Wentworth, Rebecca Benfield, Jennifer M. Schopf, and Kathy Jones.
In Memoriam: Madeline Marie Eugenie Rousseau-Raaphorst, 1918-2013
Madeline Rousseau-Raaphorst was a professor emerita of French at Rice University in Houston. She taught at Rice for 26 years and served as chair of the French department from 1972 to 1979.
Two Women Join the Faculty of the Brown University School of Engineering
Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has announced the hiring of six new faculty to its School of Engineering. The new hires bring the total number of faculty members at the engineering school to 49. Two of the six new hires are women: Kareen Kreutziger and Anita Shuka.
In Memoriam: Krystyna Ansevin, 1925-2013
A native of Warsaw, Poland, she the first woman tenure-track faculty member at Rice University and the first woman to serve on the faculty of the university’s Wiess School of Natural Sciences.
Six Women in New Higher Education Administrative Posts
The women in new posts are Deloris Pettis at Northeastern University, Judith Burnfield at the University of Nebraska, Christine Tysor at Virginia Tech, Amber Ivins at Rice University, Monica Medina at the Wharton School and Cara Leeman at the University of Wisconsin.
Fourteen Women Taking on New Administrative Roles in Higher Education
Here is news of 14 women who have been appointed to new positions at college and universities throughout the United States.
Does Gender Discrimination Discourage Women From Pursuing Academic Careers in the Hard Sciences?
Both men and women scientists agreed that discrimination played a role. But men tended to believe that women were steered away from the hard sciences early in their educational lives.
Rice University Finds Women Are Twice as Likely Than Men to Use Text Message Emoticons
Surprise, :-O, women more likely than men to use emoticons in their text messages, according to a study from Rice University.
Three Women Named Fellows of the Biomedical Engineering Society
Ann Saterbak, Melody A. Swartz, and Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic are honored for their work in bioengineering technology.
Some Notable Appointments of Women to Faculty Positions
Katherine Vaz, Barbara Butler, Ruth Haas, Vidhya Selvaraj, Rooth Varland, and Lara Bartl were named to new teaching positions.
Fourteen Women Taking on New Administrative Roles in Higher Education
Here is a host of appointments of women to key posts at colleges and universities across the United States.
In Memoriam: Jennifer J. Young, 1982-2012
She was a postdoctoral instructor of computational and applied mathematics at Rice University.
