The new deans are Aneika L. Simmons at Prairie View A&M University in Texas, Kim Petersen at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Julia Bear at Stony Brook University in New York, and Christian Spears Brown at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Impostorism, the experience of feeling like an intellectual fraud despite one's objective success, faces nearly all women graduate students in STEM programs, according to a new study authored by Jiyun Elizabeth Shin of Binghamton University in New York.
Women are significantly underrepresented among U.S. patented-inventors, representing just 13 percent of all U.S. inventors from 1976 to 2021. Women inventors are significantly more likely to work at universities than in government agencies or private organizations, suggesting the academic environment is the most conducive to women inventors' success.
The appointments are Catherine Dulac at Harvard University, Catherine Lang at Washington University in St. Louis, Talia Young at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Boel Fransson at Washington State University, Flora Cassen at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, and Allison McLarty at Stony Brook University in New York.
The appointments are Tamara Josserand at North Carolina A&T State University, Willa Smith at Stony Brook University, Anette Saxe at the University of Nevada-Reno, Linda Chavers at Holyoke Community College, Beth Dowling at Dartmouth College, Kristine Brown at Bucknell University, Janet Hadar at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Paula Murphy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Dr. Gaba is the first woman and the first African American to serve as president of Atlantic Cape Community College in New Jersey. Before her current role, she was provost of Union County College in New Jersey for 15 years.
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 contact@WIAReport.com
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 contact@WIAReport.com.
Currently serving as the inaugural dean of the School of Nursing at Mercy University in Dobbs Ferry, New York, Dr. Beard is a nationally recognized leader in health equity, policy, and nursing education.
The newly established Bona Distinguished Lectureship at Stony Brook University was developed by Professor Emerita Mary Jo Bona. A faculty member since 1999, Dr. Bona was a key leader in transforming the women's studies program into a degree-granting department.
As director of the Multi-Modal Translational Imaging Lab at Stony Brook University, Dr. Abi-Dargham aims to advance the understanding of the neurobiology of severe mental illnesses, particularly the brain mechanisms of schizophrenia.
For over two decades, Dr. Snyder taught English literature at Ohio University. She was a scholar of modern British literature, the suffrage movement, and the writings of Virginia Woolf.
