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.
Adrien Bennings has been serving as president at Kellogg Community College, one of 28 community colleges in the state of Michigan. Earlier, she was the vice president of administration and finance and chief financial officer at Clovis Community College in New Mexico.
Taking on new duties relating to university diversity are Jody C. Randall at Texas Tech University Health Science Center, Andrea Cornett-Scott at Mary Baldwin University in Staunton, Virginia, Marsha McGriff at the Univerity of Florida, and Crystal McCormick Ware at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh.
Jessie Borgman is an Instructor in the Writers’ Studio at Arizona State University and an adjunct Instructor at Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, Michigan. is being honored for the book Personal, Accessible, Responsive, Strategic: Resources and Strategies for Online Writing Instructors.
The women appointed to dean posts are Kelly F. Millenbah at Michigan State University, Kalynda Holton at Tallahassee Community College in Florida, Jillian Wallen at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, Cindy Lakers at Texas Tech University, Donna Strum at the University of Mississippi, and Gwenda Richburg Greene at Voorhees College in Denmark, South Carolina.
The four women appointed to endowed professorships are Victoria O'Keefe at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Carol Gregorio at the University of Arizona, Katharine Hayhoe at Texas Tech University, and Ana Ramos-Zayas at Yale University.
