All Entries Tagged With: "Rutgers University"
Rutgers University to Establish an Endowed Chair to Honor Gloria Steinem
The university hopes to have an appointee for the endowed chair by the 2016-17 academic year. Some $1 million of the $3 million fundraising target has been raised so far from several foundations and individual donors.
Rutgers University Scholar Wins National Book Award
Ruth Feldstein, an associate professor of history at the Newark, New Jersey campus of Rutgers University, has been selected to receive the National Book Award for 2013 from the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis.
Three Women Join the Faculty at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon
Tabitha Knight is a new assistant professor of economics. Janet Lorenzen was hired as an assistant professor of sociology and Katja Meyer was named an assistant professor of environmental and earth sciences.
In Memoriam: Anna Bethel Young, 1918-2014
After graduating from Temple University in 1946, Dr. Young became one of the first African American teachers in the public school system in Philadelphia. She later taught at Temple University and several other institutions of higher learning.
Rutgers University Study Finds That Financial Counseling Can Be a Huge Benefit to Victims of Domestic Violence
A study conducted by researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey finds that financial education for victims of domestic violence is just as important as other counseling in helping women who have been abused adjust to a new life.
A Pair of Women Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Claire S. Philipp was appointed and endowed chair in hematology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University and Teresa Berger is the inaugural Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology at Yale University.
Nine Women Appointed to New University Faculty Positions
The women who are in new teaching roles are Elizabeth Bjerke, Kibibi Voloria Mack-Shelton, Brett Gilbert, Joyce Castle, Yuvay Meyers Ferguson, Joan C. Han, Ann S. Masten, Rebecca C. Harris, and Dawn Herd-Clark.
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.
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.
Seventeen Women in New Administrative Posts in Higher Education
Mary Ann Fuchs, Carla Sanderson, Sharon Tennyson, Cheryl Johnson, Nalia Baloch, Binti Harvey, Susan C. Dolbert, Andrea Greenhoot, Lesia Crumpton-Young, Jodi Kupper, Ellen Anderson, Jenni Evans, Matella Nelson, Jaime Seguin, Debra Fraser Janie Long and Catherine Criswell are the new appointees.
Eight Women Are Appointed to Dean Positions
The eight women appointed to dean posts are Marie Hardin, Chandice Covington, Erika Hayes James, Shelley F. Conroy, Wanda J. Blanchett, Cynthia Berg, Marion E. Broome, and Joann Bangs.
Gender Differences in On-Time High School Graduations
A new study by researchers in the School of Social Work at Rutgers University finds that both men and women have shown a decline in on-time graduation from high school in recent decades. But the declines for men are more severe than for women.
Two Women Among the Four Finalists for University Librarian at the University of Georgia
Among the four finalists are Beth McNeil, the associate dean for academic affairs and professor of library science at Purdue University, and Grace J. Agnew, the associate university librarian for digital library systems at Rutgers University.
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.
Phoebe Haddon Named Chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden
Since 2009 Dr. Haddon has been dean of the Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland. Before becoming dean in 2009, Haddon served on the faculty at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University in Philadelphia.
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.
Candace Croney to Lead the New Center for Animal Welfare Science at Purdue University
Dr. Croney is an associate professor of animal sciences at Purdue University. The new center will focus on animal well-being in animal and poultry science, veterinary medicine, and scientific research.
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.
Rutgers University Scholar to Study Ways to Facilitate Mother/Daughter Communication
Donna Cill, assistant dean for student affairs and director of the Center for Lifelong Learning in the School of Nursing at Rutgers University, is embarking on a research project on developing better communication between mothers with their teenage daughters.
Rutgers Dean Accused of Bias Against Lesbians
Rutgers University officials stand by the dean’s decision to dismiss the employee and stated that the plaintiff was fired because she failed to meet work deadlines.
Denise Rodgers Lands a New Job at the New Rutgers University
Since January 2012, Denise Rodgers has been the president of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. But last Monday, the university was absorbed into Rutgers University and the post of president no longer existed.
Concetta Stewart to Lead Mercy College
Since 2012, Dr. Stewart has been serving as provost and vice president of academic affairs. Previously, she was dean and professor in the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute and is the former dean of the School of Communication and Theater at Temple University.
Nancy Cantor Named Chancellor of the Newark Campus of Rutgers University
Dr. Cantor recently stepped down as chancellor of Syracuse University, a post she held since 2004. She is the former chancellor of the University of Illinois and was provost at the University of Michigan. She will begin her new duties on January 1.
New Book Explores the Impact of Children on Academic Careers
The book examines how children affect the careers of men and women in the academic world at every level from graduate students to those facing retirement. And the bottom line is that babies have a negative impact on women’s careers.
In Memoriam: Ann J. Lane, 1931-2013
Ann Lane was the first director of the women’s studies program at the University. She also was a professor of history on the Charlottesville campus. Earlier in her career she taught at Rutgers University, City University of New York, and Colgate University.
Rutgers Hires a Woman to Lead Its Troubled Athletics Department
Julie Hermann, who was executive senior associate athletic director at the University of Louisville, will be one of only five women athletics directors at the 124 colleges and universities that make up the NCAA’s Football Bowl Subdivision.
Rutgers Professor Serving as Chief Economist for the Labor Department
Jennifer Hunt is taking a leave of absence from her post as professor of economics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to serve as the chief economist for the U.S. Secretary of Labor.
Report Finds Racial Differences in Divorce Rates for Highly Educated Women
A new study by Jeounghee Kim, an assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, finds that highly educated Black women are not as sheltered from divorce compared to highly educated women of other racial and ethnic groups.
Study Finds That Men Are More Likely Than Women to Commit Fraud in Scientific Research
Overall, the researchers from Yeshiva University, Rutgers University, and the University of Washington found that 65 percent of the fraud cases in academic science publishing were perpetrated by men. But among faculty members who committed fraud, 88 percent of the perpetrators were men.
Rutgers Establishes New Initiative on Women in the Media
The Women & Media Initiative will examine women’s overall representation in the media, women’s status in leadership roles, and will study the use of media technologies across gender lines.
In Memoriam: Ann Katharine Byrnes Kuebler, 1951-2012
She was the former head archivist at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University Newark and worked on the Duke Ellington archives at the Smithsonian.
Four Women Join the Faculty at the Rutgers School of Law-Camden
The new assistant professors at Katie Eyer, Jean Galbraith, Stacy Hawkins, and Margo Kaplan.
Novelist Tayari Jones Honored by the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation
Professor Jones teaches in the master of fine arts program at the Newark campus of Rutgers University.
New Digital Archive of Posters Depicting Women’s Political Activism Around the World Wins an Award
The Rutgers University project has been honored by the Association of College and Research Libraries.
Joanne Robinson Named Dean of the Rutgers University-Camden School of Nursing
She is the inaugural dean of the nursing school at the Camden campus.
