In her work as a geographer, Dr. Chin focuses her research on human interactions with geomorphological and ecological processes in river landscapes. She currently serves as chair of the department of geography at Florida State University.
Dr. Schmiesing brings three decades of administrative and academic experience at the University of Colorado Boulder to her new position. Most recently, she has been serving as the vice chancellor for academic resources management.
Dr. Aldridge has over two decades of higher education leadership experience, including presidencies at two other institutions: Drexel University Online and the University of Maryland Global Campus.
Janell Oberlander was appointed interim president of the new Gillette Community College District in Wyoming. She has been serving as vice president of the Gilette College of the Northern Wyoming Community College District. Voters in Campbell County, Wyoming, recently approved the creation of the new community college district.
Since 2002, Dr. Marks has served in various roles at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, currently as vice president for academic innovation and new ventures. She has also served as vice provost for academic affairs, associate provost for graduate education, and professor of management in the university’s School of Business.
Emily Ruskovich, an assistant professor in the graduate program in creative writing at Boise State University in Idaho, received the 2017 Pacific Northwest Book Award in the fiction category for her debut novel Idaho.
Dr. Dorothy Horrell was appointed to the Colorado State University Board of Governors by Governor John Hickenlooper in 2009 and served as board chair from 2013 to 2015. She is the former president of the Colorado Community Colleges System.
The honorees are Hadara Bar-Nadav of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, Nanette Santoro of the University of Colorado-Denver, Amy H. Sturgis of Lenoir-Rhyne University, Marie Chisholm-Burns of the University of Tennessee, Amy S. Gladfelter of Dartmouth College, and Patricia Bowyer of Texas Woman's University.
Among the five finalists for dean of university libraries and learning sciences at the University of New Mexico are Mary Farrell, dean of libraries at the University of Wyoming, and Mary Somerville, university librarian at the University of Colorado at Denver.
