Tag: University at Buffalo

Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.

A faculty member in the School of Business and Justice Studies for over a decade, Dr. Nesbitt currently serves as Utica's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs. She is slated to become the university's next president on January 1.

Although the number of sexual assault incidents declined in 2020 and 2021, there was an increase in assaults from current and former romantic partners, according to a study led by scholars at the University at Buffalo.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has recently awarded nearly $35 million in grants to 97 humanities projects across the country. Five of these grants were awarded to higher education institutions leading projects related to prominent American women writers, poets, and activists.

The Association for Information Science and Technology has recognized Heidi Julien of the University at Buffalo for her lifetime achievement in information science. Kyong Eun Oh of Simmons University in Boston has been honored for her outstanding teaching contributions to the field.

Nesbitt has been an academic leader with Utica University for more than a decade, including serving as interim provost for the past year.

As a professor of legal research and current manager for the Penn State Law eLibrary, Mattson provides research support to her law school faculty peers, trains library and faculty research assistants, and serves as the primary library liaison with law school journals and publications.

Dr. Tsegai previously served as the college’s Officer-in-Charge since 2022 and provost and vice president for academic affairs, a position she was appointed to in mid-2021. She joined SUNY Erie as the dean of engineering and technologies in 2018.

Patricia Diaz has been appointed to the Sunstar Robert J. Genco Endowed Chair at the University at Buffalo. Mary McCourt is the inaugural holder of the Michael J., ‘60 and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Endowed Chair of Chemistry at Niagara University in New York and Laly Joseph was named to the Dr. Keith R. Berend '92 Endowed Chair in Nursing at Florida Southern College.

Here is this week's roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].

Dr. Ecklund joined the faculty at Rice University in 2008 as an assistant professor of sociology, after teaching at the University at Buffalo. She was promoted to full professor in 2013. She also serves as the director of the university’s Boniuk Institute for the Study and Advancement of Religious Tolerance.

Here is this week's news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.