The study found the largest gap in educational attainment between teen mothers and other women of their same generation was found among millennial women born between 1980 to 1984.
Dr. Sisiopiku has served as a professor with the University of Alabama at Birmingham for more than two decades, teaching and advising both undergraduate and graduate students in transportation engineering.
Dr. Evan's appointment as president of St. Catherine University is the second time she has been named the first African American president of a higher education institution. She previously served as the first woman and first Black president of Bloomfield College in New Jersey.
The American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Cancer Society have recognized Smita Bhatia, professor of pediatric oncology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, for her contributions to cancer prevention and survivorship.
"It is evident that UAB is a place of ambitious goals with a clear commitment to enrich society and improve well-being through education, research, and patient care," said Dr. Woodruff-Borden. "I look forward to joining this outstanding campus community and working toward achieving our mission."
Taking on new duties are Cheri Canon at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Nicki Wise at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Clemson University in South Carolina, Mediget Teshome at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Elizabeth Hiltbold Schwartz at Auburn University in Alabama.
Dr. Pollack professor in the Division of Nephrology in the department of medicine in the School of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She also serves as co-director of the Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences Predoctoral Training Program.
Erika Hille Rinker, an associate professor of German at the University of Alabama at Birmingham was awarded the distinguished 2020 Checkpoint Charlie Foundation Teacher Award by the American Association of Teachers of German.
For the first time in its history, the School of Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has awarded doctorates to three women students in the same term. The women, Sandra Cutts, Jaquice Boyd, and Ashlyn Manzella, all received their doctoral degrees in civil engineering.
Cheri Canon, the Witten-Stanley Endowed Chair of Radiology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has been selected to receive the 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award from the American Association for Women in Radiology. The award is the association's highest honor.
The five women named to dean positions are Melody Lo at Arkansas State University, Kecia M. Thomas at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Jodi Sandfort at the University of Washington, Brooke Kandel-Cisco at Butler University in Indianapolis, and Linda C. Niessen at the Joplin, Missouri, campus of the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences.
