Holly Humphrey was a longtime professor and academic administrator at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. Throughout her tenure, she focused on advancing inclusive learning, mentorship, and scholarship within medical education.
Dr. Ehrich has been a faculty member with Virginia Tech since 1980. Her scientific discoveries have influenced broader research on how neurotoxic organophosphates harm humans.
A team of researchers led by the University of Minnesota has identified several hundred components of human milk that are determined by women's genetic differences. Many of these genes were found to affect infant gut microbiomes.
Even among workers within the same occupations, women are significantly less likely to use ChatGPT to complete work tasks than their male colleagues. This gap exists despite women and men holding similar beliefs about the tool's time-saving potential.
Dr. Cantwell currently serves as president of Utah State University. Her background includes extensive leadership experience overseeing research initiatives in academia and U.S. national security.
Following the resignation of Lia Merminga, Dr. Young-Kee Kim of the University of Chicago has been selected to serve as interim director of Fermilab, a federal research center for high-energy particle physics.
Shaugnessy served as a professor of law at Washington and Lee University for four decades. Her scholarly work focused on personal jurisprudence, parental rights, and legal issues arising from poverty and child neglect.
A scholar of American urban history, Dr. Boehm has previously held academic leadership roles at Bridgewater State University, Manhattanville College, and Worcester State University. She will begin her new position with Saginaw Valley State University in January.
This prestigious annual prize honors those whose work has made outstanding contributions to humanity’s knowledge, appreciation, and cultivation of the good, the true, and the beautiful. It is presented by the American Academy of Sciences and Letters. Four of the 10 winners this year are women.
The Association of American Medical Colleges has presented the 2024 Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award to Carolina Harada, professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine.
Dr. Galli current serves as a professor in the School of Molecular Engineering and department of chemistry at the University of Chicago and conducts research as a senior scientist with the Argonne National Laboratory
