All Entries Tagged With: "Stanford University"
Martha Finnemore Honored by the Johan Skytte Foundation at Uppsala University in Sweden
Since 1995, the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science has been awarded annually to scholars who have made outstanding and groundbreaking contributions to the understanding of political science and its relevance in the world today. The prize includes a cash award of about $46,000 and a silver medal.
Two Women Scholars to Receive the 2023 Sage-CASBS Award
Established in 2013, the honor is bestowed by Sage, the global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the behavioral and social sciences that advances the understanding of pressing social issues.
Berkeley’s Susan Marqusee to Lead the Biological Sciences Directorate at the National Science Foundation
Dr. Marqusee, who has been at Berkeley since 1992, will begin her appointment on June 30, with plans to maintain her Berkeley lab while at the National Science Foundation under the agency’s Independent Research/Development program, which allows employees to remain actively involved with their professional research while there.
Christy L. Brown Will Be the Next President of Alverno College in Milwaukee
Since 2012, Brown has served as chief executive officer for Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast. Prior to leading the Girl Scouts, Brown served as vice chancellor for finance and administrative affairs at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from 2007 to 2012. Earlier, she was executive vice president and general counsel at Milwaukee Area Technical College from 2002 to 2007.
JoAnne Hewett Will Be the First Woman to Direct the Brookhaven National Laboratory
Brookhaven Science Associates, a partnership between Stony Brook University and Battelle Memorial Institute, has operated Brookhaven National Laboratory for the United States Department of Energy’s Office of Science since 1998. Dr. Hewett will also be a tenured faculty member in the department of physics and astronomy at Stony Brook University.
Susan Athey Elected President of the American Economics Association
Dr. Athey began her academic career in 1995 as an assistant professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2001 to 2006, Dr. Athey taught at Stanford University before joining the economics faculty at Harvard University. In 2013, she returned to Stanford.
Anna J. Egalite Honored by the American Educational Research Association
Anna J. Egalite, an associate professor in the College of Education at North Carolina State University who is currently serving as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, has been selected as the American Educational Research Association Outstanding Reviewer.
In Memoriam: Patricia Liggins Hill, 1942-2023
Dr. Hill joined the faculty at the University of San Francisco in 1970 as an instructor in English and ethnic studies. Dr. Hill retired as a full professor in 2015 after teaching at the University of San Francisco for 45 years.
Hilary Link Has Been Named the Fifteenth President of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey
Since 2019, Dr. Link has been the president of Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. From 2013 to 2019, she served as dean of Temple University Rome. As the senior Temple University administrator in Rome, she was responsible for all aspects of the Rome campus, which enrolls more than 600 students in graduate and undergraduate programs. Earlier, Dr. Link was vice provost at Barnard College in New York City.
In Memoriam: Shoshana Levy, 1939-2022
Shoshana Levy, a long-time faculty member at Stanford Medical School, died late last year.
MIT Scholar to Lead the Advanced Research Projects Agency at the U.S. Department of Energy
Evelyn Wang, the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the department of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is stepping down as department head and will take a temporary leave as a faculty member at MIT while she serves in this public service role.
Claudine Gay Appointed the Thirtieth President of Harvard University
When she takes office on July 1, she will be the first African American and the second woman to lead the university since its founding nearly 400 years ago. Since 2018, Dr. Gay has served as the Edgerley Family Dean of Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences. She first joined the Harvard faculty in 2006.
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.
Linda Darling-Hammond Wins the $3.9 Million Yidan Prize
Linda Darling-Hammond, a professor emeritus at Stanford Graduate School of Education has been awarded the 2022 Yidan Prize for education research. She now serves as president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute, a nonprofit focused on education research.
Princeton University Scientist Win Quantum Computing Award From the American Physical Society
Nathalie de Leon, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at Princeton University in New Jersey, won the Rolf Landauer and Charles H. Bennett Award in Quantum Computing from the American Physical Society for her contributions to experimental quantum information science.
Stanford University’s Carolyn R. Bertozzi Shares the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
To map important but elusive biomolecules on the surface of cells – glycans – Professor Bertozzi developed click reactions that work inside living organisms. These reactions are now used globally to explore cells and track biological processes. Using bioorthogonal reactions, researchers have improved the targeting of cancer pharmaceuticals, which are now being tested in clinical trials.
Two Women Scientists Named Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows by the U.S. Department of Defense
The U.S. Department of Defense has announced the selection of nine distinguished faculty scientists and engineers for the 2022 Class of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellows. Each Fellow will receive up to $3 million over the five-year fellowship term to pursue cutting-edge fundamental research projects. Of the nine new fellows, only two are women.
Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Diversity Posts in Higher Education
Taking on new roles relating to diversity are Myra Blanco at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Joyce Sackey at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Stephanie Potts at Danville Area Community College in Illinois, and Ufuoma C. Abiola at Princeton University in New Jersey.
A Check-Up on the Progress of Women in Academic Radiology
In 2019, women were more than 51 percent of all students enrolling in U.S. medical schools. But women were only 27 percent of all residents in radiology. Although progress has been made, women remained vastly underrepresented in radiology faculty at U.S. medical schools.
Stanford University Scholar Named Chief Economist for the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Justice Department
Susan Athey, the Economics of Technology Endowed Professor at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, will remain a member of the faculty on a part-time basis. She will step down as associate director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
Women Win Three of the Four Investigator Awards From the Brown Science Foundation
The Investigator Awards given out by The Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation of Metairie, Louisiana, recognize curiosity-driven basic research in chemistry and physics with the goal of alleviating human suffering. The award supports investigators’ research with $2 million over five years.
Stanford University Names a Lecture Hall After Its First Woman Professor in the Biological Sciences
Stanford University is naming a lecture hall at its Hopkins Marine Station to honor Isabella Ainoa Abbott. Dr. Abbott was the university’s first Native Hawaiian faculty member and first female full professor in the biological sciences. She taught at Stanford for 22 years.
In Memoriam: Diane Michelle Nelson, 1963-2022
Diane Nelson, a cultural anthropologist who did most of her field work in Guatemala, was a member of the faculty at Duke Univeristy for 21 years.
Explaining the High-Level of Educational Attainment of Jewish Girls
A new study led by Ilana Horwitz, an assistant professor in the department of Jewish studies at Tulane University in New Orleans, finds that girls raised by Jewish parents are 23 percentage points more likely to graduate from college than girls with a non-Jewish upbringing even after accounting for their parents’ socioeconomic status.
Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointments of Ten Women to Administrative Posts
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
American Association for the Advancement of Science Honors Carolyn Bertozzi for Mentoring
Dr. Bertozzi, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University, is being recognized for her contributions to mentorship and diversity in chemistry and chemical biology through her roles as an advisor to students and postdoctoral scholars in her lab and as a leader in scientific training programs.
Five Women Scholars Awarded the Wolf Prize
First awarded in 1978, the Wolf Prize is awarded in the scientific fields of medicine, agriculture, mathematics, chemistry, and physics, as well as art categories. The prizes include a monetary award of $100,000.
Stanford’s Zhenan Bao Is the Inaugural Winner of the $550,000 VinFuture Prize
Zhenan Bao is the K. K. Lee Professor in the School of Engineering and chair of the department of chemical engineering at Stanford University. She was honored for her pioneering work on the development of skin-inspired electronics and their applications to a range of medical and energy applications.
Five Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Roles or Duties in Higher Education
The five women scholars in new roles are Felicia Salinas-Moniz at Brown University in Rhode Island, Stephanie Miller at the University of Mississippi, Cassandra Volpe Horii at Stanford University, Julie E. Bauman at George Washington University, and Charlene Gilbert at Ohio State University.
Pamela Cheek Honored for Her Book on Women Authors of the Eighteenth Century
Pamela L. Cheek, associate provost of student success and professor of French and comparative literary studies at the University of New Mexico, has been awarded the 2022 Lauren Shannon Prize from the Navonic Institute for European Studies, which is housed at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
New Administrative Positions for Eight Women at 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.
E. Elizabeth Magill to Serve as the Ninth President of the University of Pennsylvania
Professor Magill has been serving since 2019 as executive vice president and provost at the University of Virginia. Earlier, she was the Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and dean of Stanford Law School. Previously, she spent 15 years on the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Law. She is an expert on administrative law and constitutional structure.
Stanford University Study Finds Women Academics Often Held Back Due to The Nature of Their Research
Analyzing nearly 1 million doctoral dissertations from U.S. universities over a recent 40-year period, a teams of researchers at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education found that scholars who wrote about topics associated with women, or used methodologies associated with women, were less likely to go on to get senior faculty positions than those who did not.
In Memoriam: Pamela Ann McCorduck, 1940-2021
Pamela McCorduck taught at the University of Pittsburgh and Columbia University and was the author or co-author of 11 books, many on the field of artificial intelligence.
President of Hobart and William Smith College Wins Award From the American Economic Association
Joyce Jacobsen was named the winner of the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award, which has been given annually since 1998 to an individual who has furthered the status of women in the economics profession through example, achievements, increasing our understanding of how women can advance in the economics profession or mentoring others.
