Effective January 2025, Barbara Jung will become the first woman dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. She currently serves as the first woman chair of the department of internal medicine at the University of Washington.
Dr. Sisiopiku has served as a professor with the University of Alabama at Birmingham for more than two decades, teaching and advising both undergraduate and graduate students in transportation engineering.
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.
Dr. Mendenhall currently serves as the Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign where she teaches sociology, African American studies, and urban and regional planning.
The deans taking on new roles are Kristina Bross at Ohio University, Rhea Ballard-Thrower at the Association of Research Libraries, Michelle Hilaire at the University of Wyoming,, and Melissa Terlecki at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.
A research team from the University of Illinois Chicago conducted a study that tracked patients' mental health symptoms over the course of at least one menstrual cycle, discovering results that link an increased risk of suicidal ideation during the days just before and after menstruation.
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].
Dr. Collley has been serving as acting provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs. She joined the faculty at the university in 1991 and was named a full professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular genetics in 2002. Dr. Colley is the former dean of the Graduate College.
Faiza Khoja is the new dean of the College of Business at Central Washington University in Ellensburg. Sandy J. Wayne has been named dean of the University of Illinois Chicago College of Business Administration and Tao-Hsien "Dolly" King was appointed interim dean of the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
The five women scholars who are taking on new roles are Elaine A. Peña at Washington University in St. Louis, Fanta Waterman at the University of Illinois Chicago, Sharon Hammes-Schiffer at Princeton University in New Jersey, Ahkinyala Abdullah at Virginia Union University in Richmond, and HJope Ballentine at the University of Arkansas.
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].
Currently, Dr. Parish is dean of the College of Health Professions and Sentara Professor of Health Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Prior to joining the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University, she served as dean of BouveÌ College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston.
