A new study has found occupations commonly held by immigrant women living in the United States, such as house cleaners and nurses, have increased exposure to chemicals linked to breast cancer and other common chronic diseases.
As a historical archaeologist, Dr. Graff studies the relationship between temporality and modernity, consumerism and material culture, and contemporary heritage and urbanism. She currently teaches as an associate professor of anthropology at Lake Forest College in Illinois.
For over three decades, Dr. Sadoulet taught agricultural and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley. A leading scholar of development economics, she co-founded Berkeley's Center for Effective Global Action.
Dr. Chodorow was a longtime professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Throughout her career, she conducted groundbreaking research on mother-daughter relationships, specifically how mothering shapes psychological development and social roles.
Dr. Hagerty is the first woman to ever serve as provost of Northwestern University, where she has taught for the past four decades. She is slated to retire from her position at the end of the current academic year.
Susan Wente became the first woman president of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in July 2021. A biochemist by training, she previously served as the first woman provost of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
A former chief scientist with the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Coleman has been selected to lead the Berkeley Space Center, a forthcoming collaborative aviation and space exploration research hub led by the University of California, Berkeley and located on NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View.
Currently serving as a professor emerita at Michigan State University, Dr. Dodson has led the African Atlantic Research team for three decades. In this role, she has helped more than 75 students from underrepresented backgrounds pursue doctoral degrees.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].
In 1981, Dr. Gaillard was hired as the first tenured woman professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley. She was a leading theoretical physicist whose ground-breaking calculations on elementary particles helped validate the Standard Model of physics.
Dr. Frisch was a faculty member at the University of Chicago's department of astronomy and astrophysics for nearly 50 years. She was a leading expert on the heliosphere, the region of space influenced by the solar wind and the sun's magnetic field.
