All Entries Tagged With: "University of California Santa Barbara"
Four Women Faculty Members at Universities Honored With Prestigious Awards
The honorees are Roberta Rudnick at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Jennifer Zorotovich at Georgia Southern University, Jamie Wagner at the University of Mississippi, and Tressie McMillan Cottom at Virginia Commonwealth University.
University of California, Santa Barbara Acquires the Papers of a Leader of the Chicana Movement
Alicia Escalante founded the East Los Angeles Welfare Rights Organization in 1967 and participated in and led many of the important protests of the Chicana Movement of the 1960s. She was a single mother of five children and sought to help out others who were in a similar situation.
In Memoriam: Caren L. Diefenderfer
Professor Diefenderfer joined the faculty at Hollins University in 1977. In January of this year, she was presented with the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award from the Mathematical Association of America.
In Memoriam: Toni Clark, 1942-2016
Toni Clark, professor emerita of English at Pomona College in Claremont, California, died late last month. She joined the faculty at the college and until recently had continued to teach as a member of the college’s emeriti committee.
University of Wisconsin Historian Wins Book Award
April R. Haynes, an assistant professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received the 2015 James Broussard Best First Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (SHEAR).
Three Women Among the 12 Winners of the 2016 Hertz Fellowships
Winners of the prestigious fellowships are awarded full tuition in Ph.D. programs for five years. And they receive an annual stipend. Preference is given to scholars who have a stated preference to pursue science in the public interest.
A Milestone Award for a Syracuse University Physicist
Lisa Manning, an associate professor of physics at Syracuse University in New York, will be honored with the Young Scientist Prize in Lyon, France, this July by the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics. She is the first woman to win the award.
Notable Honors and Awards for 10 Women Scholars
The honorees are Ruth Harper, Jean Bolognia, M. Lisa Manning, Jennifer Van Hook, Helen Sheehy, Carla Della Datta, Faye W. Gilbert, Jennifer Freyd, Barbara Voorhies and Alexandra Navrotsky
New Assignments for a Dozen Women Faculty Members
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions.
Eleven Women Faculty Members Taking on New Roles in the Academic World
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions.
Gender Differences Among Workers Who Take Paid Parental Leave After the Birth of a Child
In California, new mothers and new fathers are eligible for six weeks of paid parental leave. But the study showed that men typically take a week or a week and a half while women were more likely to take the full six weeks of leave.
University of California, Santa Barbara Historian Earns Two Book Awards
Mireille Miller-Young, an associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has won awards from the American Studies Association and the National Women’s Studies Association for her book A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography.
Eight Women Professors Honored With Prestigious Awards
The eight women faculty members who received awards are Prerna Dua, Vicky Kalogera, Anna C. Balazs, Allison Doupe, Brenda Major, Lindsey Aloia, Janice Naegele, and Ann Wolbert Burgess.
Two Women Professors Named Chair of Their Academic Departments
Rachel A. Segalman was appointed chair of the department of chemical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Anna Zajicek was named chair of the department of sociology and criminal justice at the University of Arkansas.
Three Women Scholars Names to Dean Positions
The new deans are Mary Betsy Brenner at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Kathrin Engisch at Wright State University in Ohio, and Ellen Davis at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina.
Five Women Scholars Selected for Honors From National Associations
The honorees are Elizabeth Belding of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Yolanda T. Moses of the University of California, Riverside, Isis Carbajal de Garcia of Florida International University, Elena T. Carbone of the University of Massachusetts, and Lynda Bonewald from the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Two Scholars of Women’s History Share the 2015 Lambda Literary Award
Susan Freeman, chair of the department of gender and women’s studies at Western Michigan University, and Leila J. Rupp, professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, were honored for the best book of the year relating to LGBT studies.
New Administrative Posts for 22 Women at U.S. 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.
Four Women Scholars Presented With Notable Awards
The honorees are Songi Han of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Marti Rice of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Kim LaScola Needy of the University of Arkansas and Kellie Grasman of the Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Honors and Awards for Four Women Scholars
The honorees are Pamela Shoemaker of Syracuse University, Heather Knutson of the California Institute of Technology, Barbara Voorhies of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Janet Fink of the University of Massachusetts.
Honors and Awards for Seven Women From the Academic World
The honorees are Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins, Hilary Close of the University of Hawaii, Bess Pierce of Virginia Tech, Aida Hurtado of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Jann Warren-FIndley of Arizona State, Rosie Phillips Bingham of the University of Memphis, and Amelia Jones of the University of Southern California.
Six Women Scholars Honored With Major Awards
The honorees are Ruth Murray-Clay at the University of California, Santa Barbara, the late Anna Cienciala at the University of Kansas, Dorothy Roberts at the University of Pennsylvania, Toni Morrison of Princeton University, K. Paige Carmichael of the University of Georgia, and Susan Kidwell of the University of Chicago.
University Study Finds Both Men and Women Value Relationships Based on Equality
A new study by researchers at the University of Texas and the University of California, Santa Barbara, finds that a majority of young men and women would prefer a relationship in which all work and family responsibilities were shared equally.
Shana Redmonds Is the First Holder of a Professorship Honoring Civil Rights Activist Ella Baker
The University of California, Santa Barbara, has established a visiting professorship to honor Ella Baker, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and its network of Freedom Schools. Shana Redmond of the University of Southern California will be the first holder of the post.
Two Women Psychologists Honored for Paper Written a Quarter Century Ago
In 1989 Jennifer Crocker, now of Ohio State University, and Brenda Major, now at the University of California, Santa Barbara, co-authored a paper on social stigma and self-esteem. Since then, the work has been cited more than 3,500 times by authors of other published works over the past quarter century.
Eight Women Named Dean at Colleges and Universities in the U.S.
The eight women who were recently appointed to positions as deans are Beryl McEwen, Caroline Rivera, Merith Cosden, Andrea E. Evans, Terri Camesano, Donna J. Wagner, Arletha McSwain, and Linda Malone-Cohen.
New Administrative Posts for 18 Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s roundup of appointments of women to high-level administrative positions at colleges and universities across the United States.
The First Ph.D. in Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
The feminist studies program at the University of California, Santa Barbara has about 80 undergraduate students, but Dr. Thompson is the first recipient of a degree from the doctoral program that was established five years ago. She will now be a postdoctoral fellow at Rice University.
Only One Woman Among the New Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Ann Hamilton is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State University. She has been on the faculty at Ohio State since 2001. From 1985 to 1991, she taught on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
University of California at Santa Barbara Receives Archives of Artist Favianna Rodriguez
The Oakland-based artist known for her social activism, has donated an archive that consists of 31 art prints. Additional prints, sketches, correspondence, photographs, videos, and other documents will be added to the archive in the future.
University of California Santa Barbara Scholar Wins Award for Book on North Korea
Suk-Young Kim, a professor of theater arts at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has won the James Palais Book Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.
Ten Women in New Administrative Roles in Higher Education
The ten women in new posts are Cindy Glavas, Charmaine Hack, Linda A.D. Bub, Ingrid Stolzel, Laurie Koehler, Lori Hendricks, Karen Clarke, Jennifer Paustenbaugh, Pam Peter and Marcy Carsey.
University Study Examines Women’s Appetite for Competitiveness
A unique study by researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara used an analysis of entrants into a local road race to see if women were as competitive as men. They hoped to extrapolate the results to learn why women are not well represented among the top echelon of corporate officers.
English Scholar at UC Santa Barbara Wins Book Prize From the Modern Language Association
Stephanie L. Batiste, an associate professor of English and Black studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has been named as the winner of the William Sanders Scarborough Prize.
Two Women Scholars Share the Sara A. Whaley Book Prize
The winning book is authored by Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and chair of feminist studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Jennifer Klein, a professor of history at Yale University.
