Texas Tech University System Chancellor Brandon Creighton recently sent a memo to the system's presidents that outlines restrictions for how faculty members can discuss topics relating to race, gender, and sexual orientation in their instruction. Faculty that do not comply with his requirements may be subject to disciplinary action.
The Sewanee Review has presented its 2025 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry to Rebecca Gayle Howell, an associate professor for the MFA program in creative writing and translation at the University of Arkansas.
Dr. Martin currently serves as Kilgore College's vice president of organizational effectiveness. Effective November 1, she will take on new responsibilities as the community college's interim president.
Bey-Ling Sha currently serves as dean of the College of Media & Communication at Texas Tech University. As a scholar, she studies the intersection of identity and public relations.
Christa Smith taught world literature, German, and French at Wayland Baptist University in Texas for over four decades. In addition to her teaching contributions, she was also a dedicated supporter of the university's student athletes.
The faculty appointments are Deirdre Cassell at Brenau University in Georgia, Julia Bullard at Georgia State University, Michelle Pantoya at Texas Tech University, and Nicole Manglos-Weber at Boston University.
Presented by the American Chemical Society's Women Chemists Committee, the Rising Star Award honors a mid-career scientist with outstanding potential in their field.
Dr. Jensen is an associate professor of fiction and director of the program in creative writing and translation at the University of Arkansas. She also teaches in the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts.
The Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior has recently awarded its Helen Denning Ullrich Annual Award for Lifetime Excellence in Nutrition Education to Mary Murimi of Texas Tech University and Diane Smith of Washington State University.
The women taking on new faculty roles are Naïma Moustaïd-Moussa at Texas Tech University, Pallavi Sriram at Colorado College, Sharon Erickson Nepstad at the University of New Mexico, and Alexis Lee at Georgia State University.
Since 2018, Dr. LeGrande has served as vice provost for strategic enrollment management at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Earlier, she was vice president for strategic enrollment management at the University of Houston-Downtown. Prior to her duties in Houston, Dr. LeGrande worked at North Carolina A&T State University and Winston-Salem State University.
The four women mathematicians sharing the award are Erica J. Graham, an associate professor of mathematics at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, Raegan Higgins, an associate professor of mathematics at Texas Tech University, Candice Price, an associate professor of mathematics and statistics at Smith College in North Hampton, Massachusetts, and Shelby Wilson, a senior professional at the Applied Physics Laboratory Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
