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].
According to a new study led by scholars at Columbia University, the increasingly widespread legalization of marijuana throughout the country has coincided with a significant rise in the number of women who use cannabis during pregnancy.
Susan Richmond of Georgia State University, Saba Rasheed Ali of the University of Iowa, Jinoos Yazdany of the University of California, San Fransisco, and Shivaani Kummar of Oregon Health & Science University have been appointed to new academic positions at their institutions.
The women appointed to endowed professorships are Bonnie Joe at the University of California, San Francisco, Kristin Vekasi at the University of Montana, and Ellen Lust at Cornell University in New York.
The women appointed to endowed positions are Kizzmekia Corbett-Helaire at Harvard University, Martina Droth at Yale University, Adriana Petryna at the University of Pennsylvania, Nicole Eikmeier at Grinnell College in Iowa, and Christine Glastonbury at the University of California, San Francisco.
Scholars from Columbia University have found women born in U.S. states with a high level of structural sexism may experience cognitive decline earlier in life than women born in other states.
Firefighters have an increased cancer incidence compared to the general population, however the majority of research in this area has centered around men. A new study has sought out to identity what chemicals women firefighters are exposed to that could be increasing their risk of breast cancer.
Preterm births in the United States have increased over the past decade, largely due to significant racial disparities in the experiences of Black, Native American, and Hawaiian and Pacific Islander mothers from low-income families.
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].
Researchers from the University of Tokyo, Harvard University, the University of California, San Francisco, and the University of California, Los Angeles have discovered patients treated by women doctors are associated with lower mortality and hospital re-admission rates.
The deans are Heather Bush at the University of Kentucky, Susan Rowan at the University of Illinois Chicago, Patricia Sanchez Abril at the University of Miami, Marcilynn Burke at Tulane University, LaVonda Reed at the University of Baltimore, Jenna Shim at the University of Wyoming, Kalea Benner at Indiana University, Sheila Yeh at the University of Northern Colorado, Tracy Linderholm at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Franita Tolson at the University of Southern California, and Carol Dawnson-Rose at the University of California, San Francisco.
