All Entries Tagged With: "University of California Santa Barbara"
Jill McCluskey Selected to Lead the International Association of Agricultural Economists
Dr. McCluskey currently serves as the first woman director of the School of Economics at Washington State University. She will serve as the second-ever woman president of the International Association of Agricultural Economists when she assumes her new role in 2027.
African Literature and Culture Society Honors Duriel Harris for Outstanding Achievement in Poetry
Dr. Harris has served as a professor of poetry and poetics at Illinois State University for the past 15 years. Her teaching and academic interests include poetry writing, poetics, and African American literature.
University of San Francisco Selects Eileen Chia-Ching Fung as Provost
Dr. Fung has been officially appointed provost of the University of San Francisco after holding the role in the interim for the past year. She has been a faculty member with the university for over two decades.
Modern Language Association Honors Jody Enders With Lois Roth Award
Professor of French at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Jody Enders, has received the Lois Roth Award from the Modern Language Association for one of her many collections of translated French plays
The Ann S. Bowers Women’s Brain Health Initiative Debuts at the University of California
The new effort is a brain-imaging consortium whose mission is to close the gender data gap and make neuroscience inclusive — in terms of both who asks the questions and who is served by the answers.
New Administrative Duties for Five Women in Higher Education
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 contact@WIAReport.com.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Ashley Duggan Wins a Best Book Award From the National Communication Association
Synthesizing empirical evidence and associated theoretical constructs from the literature on health/illness in close relationships, Professor Duggan’s book compares foundational assumptions of research on relational processes and research on health and illness.
Multiple Honors for the University of California Santa Barbara’s Rachel Segalman
Rachel A. Segalman, the Edward Noble Kramer Professor and chair of the department of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has won awards from the U.S. Department of Energy and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
How Social Media Can Be Used to Counter Negative Stereotypes of Women in STEM Fields
In 2018, Alexandra Phillips, now a researcher at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at the University of California, Santa Barbara, established Women Doing Science, a site that features photos and profiles of female scientists all over the world. The site currently has almost 100,000 followers. A survey of followers found that images helped alleviate the loneliness of being a woman in a STEM field.
International Society for Agricultural Safety and Health Honors Colorado State University’s Lorann Stallones
Professor Stallones’ work has focused on agricultural injuries and contributed to the body of evidence that farmers and their families experienced unprecedented levels of both fatal and nonfatal injuries and illnesses due to the hazards encountered related to farm work.
Stacey Robertson to Lead Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania
For the past five years, Dr. Robertson has been serving as a professor of history and provost and vice president for academic affairs at the State University of New York at Geneseo. Earlier, she served as dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington.
Marianne Mithun of the University of California, Santa Barbara Wins Major Award in Linguistics
Marianne Mithun, a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received the Neil and Saras Smith Medal from the British Academy for her groundbreaking research into Native American and Austronesian languages. Her work has helped indigenous communities in North America and Austronesia preserve their languages and pass them on to younger generations.
University of California, Santa Barbara Scholar Wins Book Award From the American Anthropological Association
Suma Ikeuchi, an assistant professor of East Asian languages and cultural studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been awarded the Francis K. Hsu Prize for the best book in the anthropology of East Asia.
Four Women Apponited to Diversity Posts at Colleges and Universities
The appointees are Deidre Hill Butler at Union College in Schenectady, New York, Belinda Robnett at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Sonia Rucker at Southeast Missouri State University, and Nahomi Carlisle at Bunker Hill Community College in Boston.
Seven Women Who Have Been Appointed to Diversity Positions in Higher Education
At some colleges and universities, a hiring freeze has been enacted due to the pandemic. But with the world’s new focus on racism and social justice, the hiring of diversity and inclusion officers at colleges and universities remains at a brisk pace.
Study Finds Hollywood Does Not Offer Adequate Production and Marketing Support for Films Starring Women
Authors Stacy Smith and Rene Weber found that when controlling for a set of production, distribution, and exhibition factors, films with female lead or co-lead characters do not perform significantly different than those with male lead characters domestically and internationally.
Thirteen Women Who Have Been Assigned New Administrative Roles at Colleges and Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Tracie Hall Appointed Executive Director of the American Library Association
The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, with approximately 57,000 members in academic, public, school, government, and special libraries. The association was founded 143 years ago. Traci Hall will be the first Black woman to lead the association.
In Memoriam: Barbara Uehling Charlton, 1932-2020
Dr. Charlton was the first and only woman to serve as the permanent chancellor at both the University of Missouri and the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Rowena M. Tomaneng Will Be the Next President of San José City College in California
A first-generation immigrant from the Philippines, Dr. Tomaneng has been an educator in the California Community College system for nearly 25 years, serving most recently as president of Berkeley City College. Dr. Tomaneng will begin her presidency of San José City College on January 6.
Nine Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments in Higher Education
Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties.
Six Women Academics Receive Notable Honors or Awards
The honorees are: Frances Negrón-Muntaner of Columbia University, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham of Carnegie Mellon University, Linda Hirst of the University of California, Merced, Alsion Butler of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Anne Kapuscinski, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Nancy Deloye Fitzroy of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Eight Women Receive Prestigious Awards from the American Physical Society
The honorees are Marsha I Lester of the University of Pennsylvania, M. Christina Marchetti of the University of California, Katherine Freese of the University of Michigan, Shirley Ann Jackson of Renssselaer Polytechnic Institute, Tanya Zelevinsky of Columbia, Sharon C. Glotzer of the University of Michigan, Heather J. Lewandowski of the University of Colorado, and Julia Mundy of Harvard.
Colgate University’s Jenna Reinbold Wins Book Award from the American Academy of Religion
Jenna Reinbold, an associate professor of religion at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, has received the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion from the American Academy of Religion. The award is given to significant works of scholarship that affect “how religion is examined, understood, and interpreted.”
Two Women Receive the Arthur C. Cope Scholars Award from the American Chemical Society
Two women were among the 10 recipients of the 2019 Arthur C. Cope Scholars Award from the American Chemical Society. The award recognizes and encourages excellence in organic chemistry.
Twelve Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments in Higher Education
Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties.
Do Sexual Assault Prevention Programs on College Campuses Actually Work?
A new study by researchers at the University of California finds that sexual assault prevention training programs aimed at men who are a high risk of committing sexual assault, may not be working and may in fact have a “boomerang effect” that increases the odds that they will be an offender.
Seven Women Academics Recognized with Prestigious Honors or Awards
The honorees are Phyllis Sharps of Johns Hopkins University, Tresa M. Pollock of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Delia Cheung Horn of Northeastern University, Eugenie V. Mielczarek at George Mason University, Annelise Riles of Cornell University, Lila Gierasch of the University of Massachusetts, and Tina Mozelle Braziel of the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
The Next President of the State University of New York-Oneonta
Since 2011, Dr. Barbara Jean Morris has served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at Fort Lewis College in Durnago, Colorado. Earlier, she worked for 16 years at the College of the Redlands in California, where she served as professor of government and dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
Academic Study Finds Dearth of Women as Directors of Major Hollywood Films
A new study led by Stacy L. Smith, an associate professor of communication at the University of Southern California, found that of 100 top grossing films each year during the 2007-to-2017 period, women directed only 43 films, or 4 percent of the total.
Five Women Scholars Taking on New Faculty Assignments
Appointed to new faculty roles are LaShanda Korley at the University of Delaware, Julie A. Alison at Pittsburg State University in Kansas, Cherrie Moraga at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Alison Curseen at Boston College and Sonya Clark at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
Norma Cantu Is the Winner of an Award Honoring Chicano/Latino Literature
Norma Elia Cantu, the Norine R. an T. Frank Murchinson Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, is being honored with the 14th annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Santa Barbara Scholar Honored by the American Chemical Society
Alison Butler, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry and associate vice chancellor for academic personnel at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has been selected to receive the Alfred Bader Award in Bio-Inorganic or Bio-Organic Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.
Three Women Appointed to Endowed Chairs at High-Ranking Universities
The three women now holding endowed chairs are Anne H. Charity Hudley at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Wendelin Wright at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and Heather E. Cameron at Washington University in St. Louis.
