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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].

Dr. Oliver, the Lewis Whitaker Adams Professor in Commerce at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, has been recognized for her lifetime achievement in accounting education and leadership within the profession.

In an analysis of more than 673,000 medical school graduates, a new study has found White men receive more promotions in academic medicine than women, even though Asian, Black, and White women are more likely to receive entry-level medical school appointments.

The five women faculty members appointed to new roles are Rebecca Robichaux-Davis at Mississippi State University, Meagan Patterson at the University of Kansas, Mina Kinukawa at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, Elaine Sia at the University of Rochester in New York, and Angela Hancock at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

In a survey of early-career scientists who applied to an assistant professor position between 2019 and 2022, over two-thirds of women received at least one job offer, compared to around half of their male peers.

Throughout her over three-decades-long career at the University of Arkansas, Dr. Christiansen taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on French language and literature and was active in the university's study abroad program.

Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.

Dr. Paramore has spent nearly three decades at Hutchinson Community College, holding both faculty and administrative positions. She will assume her presidency on July 1, making her the school's first woman president.

The new deans are at the University of Scranton, Jean Giddins at the University of Kansas, Bessie Rigakos at Saint Joseph's College at Marian University in Indiana, and Shelbie Witte at the University of North Dakota.

The new deans are Sandra L. Wong has been appointed the next dean of Emory University School of Medicine, Janet A. Guyden at Bowie State University in Maryland, Amity Noltemeyer at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and Mary Rezac at the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas.

Rose Hu, associate dean for research at the Utah State University College of Engineering, is this year’s winner of the Women in Communications Engineering Outstanding Achievement Award presented by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

The women faculty taking on new duties are Mary E. Graham at Syracuse University in New York, Heather Congdon at the University of Maryland Baltimore, Tracey Sharpley-Whiting at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and Maja Husar Holmes at the University of Kansas.