Dr. Soufleris, a three-time alumna of the State University of New York System, has more than 35 years of higher education experience spanning student affairs, enrollment management, retention, and student success initiatives.
Dr. Geneco comes to her new role from Tufts University in Massachusetts, where she has served as provost for the past four years. She is slated become the University at Buffalo's first woman president on August 10.
The women appointed to endowed positions in academia are Karen Frank at the University at Buffalo, George Washington University's Leandra Godoy at Children's National Hospital, and Beth Johnson at Pennsylvania State University.
Avivia Abramovsky has been serving as a professor and dean of the University of Idaho College of Law. Before joining the University of Idaho faculty, she was dean of the University at Buffalo School of Law in New York.
When public accounting firms have higher proportions of women auditors, they deliver fewer financial misstatements and charge lower audit fees, according to a new study from scholars at the University at Buffalo and Ohio State University.
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.
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.
