As an assistant professor of nutrition at Simmons University, Dr. Beatty teaches courses and conducts research on clinical nutrition, eating disorders, sports nutrition, and chronic disease prevention through lifestyle health behaviors.
Since 2013, Dr. Conboy has served as provost and senior vice president at what is now Simmons University in Boston. Earlier, she was a professor of English literature and later provost at Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts. She will become president of St. Mary's College on June 1.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Until 2012 when she left the academic world to devote all her energies to research and writing, Dr. Leavy was an associate professor and head of the gender studies program at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.
