Tag: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

Nikki Edge and Susan Emmett have been promoted to new endowed chairs in the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

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

The new endowed appointments are Julie Lundquist at Johns Hopkins University, Sarah Knott at the University of Oxford, Sara Coffey at Oklahoma State University, Marjan Boerma at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science, and Judith Byfield at Cornell University.

Laura Hedin is the new holder of the Morgridge Endowed Chair in the College of Education at Northern Illinois University. Melba M. Crawford was named the Nancy Uridil and Frank Bosseu Distinguished Professor in Civil Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and Julie M. Riley was named to the Hal Reed Black, M.D., Chair in Urology at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.

In this role, Dr. Krause will be responsible for UAMS Health’s 535-bed hospital, outpatient clinics in central Arkansas, digital health services and clinics at eight regional campuses across the state. She serves as chair of the board of directors of the Baptist Health-UAMS Accountable Care Alliance and is also a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine.

Taking on new faculty duties are Martha Michelle Estrada at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Kimberly Long at Kansas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Wichita, Salome Brooks at Clarkson University in Potsdam, New York, Ruaa Al Juboori at the University of Mississippi, and Meredith Niles at the University of Vermont.

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

Lin Zhan will be the new dean of the School of Nursing at the University of California, Los Angeles. Susan S. Smyth was named executive vice chancellor and dean of the College of Medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Randi Arsenault has been named dean of admissions at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.

Nicki Hillard, a professor of pharmacy practice in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, was named president-elect of the American Pharmacists Association. She will become president of the organization in 2018.