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Maurie McInnis Has Been Named the First Woman President of Yale University
While Yale has previously appointed women as interim presidents, Maurie McInnis will be the first woman to serve as the university’s official president. She has been serving as president of Stony Brook University, a campus of the State University of New York System.
Jaclyn Nunziato Has Received the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award
Jaclyn Nunziato, associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke, received student-nominated honor that recognizes a faculty physician who exemplifies qualities of a caring and compassionate mentor in the teaching and advising of medical students.
Margo DelliCarpini Selected to Lead the Commonwealth Campuses of Pennsylvania State University
Dr. DelliCarpini has been serving as chancellor and dean of Pennsylvania State University Abington. Earlier, she was vice provost for strategic educational partnerships and dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She previously served as professor and dean of the College of Education at Morehead State University in Kentucky
Four Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Responsibilities
Taking on new roles are Cheryl Neale-McFall at West Chester University in Pennsylvania, Margie Lee at the Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine, Amy Cook at Stony Brook University in New York, and Karen Jones at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
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.
Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Chairs at State Universities
Kathleen McGarry has been named to the Thomas Muench Endowed Chair of Economics at Stony Brook University in New York. Jessica Jensen was appointed to the Walter F. and Verna Gehrts Presidential Professorship at North Dakota State University and Corey Tarwater now holds the Robert Berry Distinguished Chair in Ecology at the University of Wyoming.
Cornell’s Melody Zeng to Be Honored by the American Association of Immunologists
As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Melody Seng was among the first to discover that a class of antibodies called IgG recognizes gut bacteria for maintenance of host-microbe symbiosis in the intestine. Dr. Zeng established her lab at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2019.
Colleges and Universities Appoint Four Women to Dean Positions
The new deans are Gladys M. Ayala at the New York University Long Island School of Medicine, Patricia Bruckenthal at the School of Nursing at Stony Brook University in New York, Danelle Stevens-Watkins at the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, and Khrystyna Sanborn at Heartland Community College in Normal, Illinois.
Ten Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Roles 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.
Danielle Wilken Appointed President of the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut
The University of Bridgeport was recently acquired by Goodwin University in East Hartford, Connecticut. The Bridgeport campus will retain its name and will have independent leadership. With more than 20 years of experience in higher education, Dr. Wilken has been serving as provost and dean of faculty at Goodwin University.
New Horizons in Physics Award to Be Shared by Tien-Tien Yu of the University of Oregon
The New Horizons prize recognizes early-career scientists who have already made a substantial impact on their fields. Yu and her colleagues have pioneered a new approach in the search for dark matter, the mysterious substance that accounts for about 80 percent of all matter in the universe.
Purchase College in New York Announces Its Next President
The State University of New York Board of Trustees announced today that Dr. Milagros Peña will become the sixth president of Purchase College. Since 2015, Dr. Peña has been serving as dean of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at the University of California, Riverside.
The Next President of Stony Book University of the State University of New York System
Maurie McInnis is a cultural historian and since 2016 has served as executive vice president and provost at the University of Texas at Austin. Previously, she spent nearly 20 years at the University of Virginia, rising to the post of vice provost for academic affairs. She will become president of Stony Brook University on July 1.
Five Women Who Have Been Named to University Dean Positions
The women appointed to Dean positions are Nicole S. Sampson at Stony Brook University in New York, Kellee Van Aken at Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania, Karen E. Bravo at Indiana University/Purdue University Indianapolis, Sonya Forte Duhé at Arizona State University, and SherRhonda Gibbs at the University of Northern Colorado.
Five Women Appointed to Dean Posts at Colleges and Universities
The women appointed to dean positions are Jennifer R. Scanlon at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, Laura Lindenfeld at Stony Brook University in New York, Cherisse Jones-Branch at Arkansas State University, Hedi Bostic at Marquette University in Milwaukee, and Terry Terry Rhodes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
New Administrative Duties for Eight Women in American Higher Education
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
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.
Five Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Positions as Dean
The new deans are Shanna L. Howell at the Bristol Community College New Bedford Campus in Massachusetts, Wanda C. Gonsalves at Kentucky State University, Barbara Lee Bass at George Washington University, Janelle Chiasera at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, and Annette B. Wysocki at Stony Brook University in New York.
Nine Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments in Higher Education
Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties.
Three Women Named 2019 Laureates of the Blavatnick National Awards for Young Scientists
The Blavatnick National Awards for Young Scientists recognize scholars in three disciplines; life sciences, physical sciences and engineering, and chemistry. For the first time in the program’s 13-year history, all of the recipients are women. Each woman receives a $250,000 prize.
The State University of New York Names Six Women to Distinguished Professorships
Named to Distinguished Professorships at the State University of New York are Beverly J. Evans at the Geneseo campus and Jessica Gurevitch, Mary F. Kritzer, Ute Martha Moll. Suparna Rajaram, and Nicole S. Sampson at Stony Brook University on Long Island.
Four Women Faculty Members in New Roles at Major Research Universities
Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties.
Brown University’s Meenakshi Narain to Take Leadership Post With the Large Hadron Collider
Meenakshi Narain, professor of physics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, has been selected to lead the collaboration board for U.S. institutions participating in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. She is the first woman to hold the position.
Four Women Professors Selected to Receive Notable Awards
The honorees are Elizabeth Wichmann-Walczak of the University of Hawaii, Esther Sans Takeuchi of Stony Brook University in New York, Heather McPherson of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Emily Tanner-Smith of the University of Oregon.
Lily McNair Will Be the First Woman President of Tuskegee University in Alabama
Dr. McNair has been serving as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Wagner College on Staten Island in New York City. Before becoming provost in 2011, Dr. McNair was associate provost for research and a professor of psychology at Spelman College in Atlanta.
Three Women Appointed to Distinguished Professorships at the State University of New York
The three women named to Distinguished Professorships at SUNY are Lina M. Obeid at Stony Brook University, Jean H. Quataert at Binghamton University, and JoEllen Welsh at the University at Albany.
Rice University’s Linda Capuano Appointed to High-Level Energy Department Post
Linda Capuano, a fellow in energy technology for the Center for Energy Studies in the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in Houston, has been appointed by President Trump as administrator of the Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy.
The New Leader of the Moab Campus of Utah State University
Dr. Lianna Etchberger joined the faculty at the Uintah Basin campus of Utah State University as a an adjunct lecturer in 1995. She was promoted to a full tenured professorship in biology in 2015. She will be the executive director of the Moab campus and lead all Utah State University operations in the Southwest region of the state.
Eight Women Assigned to New Administrative Positions in Higher Education
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
There Are 21 New Distinguished Professors at SUNY: Four Are Women
The State University of New York System has announced the appointment of 21 faculty members to the rank of Distinguished Professors. Four of these appointments went to women: Kathlyn A. Parker of Stony Brook, Ann S. Botash at SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Julie Ann Woodworth of Niagara County Community College and Bonni C. Hodges of SUNY-Cortland.
A Dozen Women Appointed to Administrative Posts in Higher Education
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Green River College in Auburn, Washington, Names Suzanne Johnson as President
Suzanne Johnson has been serving as vice president for academic affairs at Suffolk County Community College in New York. Earlier she was dean of Dowling College in Oakdale, New York. She will begin her new job as president of Green River College on July 1.
Susan Wessler Chosen as a Member of Britain’s Royal Society
Dr. Susan Wessler holds the Neil A. and Rochelle A. Campbell Presidential Chair for Innovation in Science Education in the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences at the University of California, Riverside.
Deborah Myers of Brown University Wins the Distinguished Surgeon Award from the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
Deborah L. Myers received the Distinguished Surgeon Award at the 43rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Surgeons.
The Next President of Atlantic Cape Community College in New Jersey
The board of trustees of Atlantic Cape Community College in Mays Landing, New Jersey, has named Barbara Gaba as the educational institution’s next president. Dr. Gaba has been serving as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Union County College in Cranford, New Jersey.
