All Entries Tagged With: "University of Michigan"
![Study Finds Widespread Gender Bias and Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Jagsi-Oncology226-150x150.jpg)
Study Finds Widespread Gender Bias and Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine
A study led by Reshma Jagsi, associate professor in the department of radiation oncology at the University of Michigan, found that sexual harassment of women in academic medicine has declined significantly since 1995. However, sexual harassment continues to be a major problem.
![In Memoriam: Gloria Dyc, 1950-2016](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/GloriaDyc.jpg)
In Memoriam: Gloria Dyc, 1950-2016
Gloria Dyc was Regents Professor of English and a professor of arts and letters on the Gallup Campus of the University of New Mexico. Professor Dyc joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico in 1988.
![Women Appointed to Dean Positions at the University of Michigan and Oregon State University](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/videka-150x150.jpg)
Women Appointed to Dean Positions at the University of Michigan and Oregon State University
Lynn Videka was appointed dean of the School of Social Work at the University of Michigan and Jennifer Dennis is the new dean of the Graduate School and vice provost at Oregon State University in Corvallis.
![Seven Women Faculty Members Taking on New Roles in Higher Education](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/news_bradford09-150x150.jpg)
Seven Women Faculty Members Taking on New Roles in Higher Education
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.
![One Woman Among the Four Finalists for President of South Dakota State University](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/ZulmaToro-150x150.jpg)
One Woman Among the Four Finalists for President of South Dakota State University
Zulma R. Toro is executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. She has held this post since 2013. Previously, Dr. Toro was dean of the College of Engineering at Wichita State University in Kansas.
![Lake Michigan College President Suspended, May Be Terminated](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Spielvogeel-150x150.jpg)
Lake Michigan College President Suspended, May Be Terminated
Jennifer Spielvogel became president of Lake Michigan College in Benton Harbor, Michigan, in January 2016. The board of trustees unanimously voted to suspend her and to hold a just cause hearing to determine if she should be fired. Among other criticisms, the board questioned some expenses President Spielvogel authorized.
![Seven Women Scholars in the Twelfth Class of Jefferson Science Fellows](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/DOS.jpg)
Seven Women Scholars in the Twelfth Class of Jefferson Science Fellows
The Jefferson Science Fellows Program is designed to further build capacity for science, technology, and engineering expertise within the U.S. Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development. Seven of the 12 fellows this year are women.
![New Administrative Posts at Major Universities for 11 Women](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/michelle_villegas_frazier-150x150.jpg)
New Administrative Posts at Major Universities for 11 Women
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
![In Memoriam: Marilyn Jane Stokstad, 1929-2016](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/marilynstokstad-150x150.jpg)
In Memoriam: Marilyn Jane Stokstad, 1929-2016
Marilyn Stokstad served on the faculty at the University of Kansas from 1958 until her retirement in 2002. As the author of co-author of several textbooks, her scholarship introduced thousands of college students to the study of art history.
![Seven Women Scholars Are Named to Dean Positions at Major Universities](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Neubrander_Judy-214x300-150x150.jpg)
Seven Women Scholars Are Named to Dean Positions at Major Universities
The new deans are Judy Neubrander at Illinois State, Bonita Stanton at Seton Hall University, Elizabeth Moje at the University of Michigan, Margaret Fitzgerald at North Dakota State, Anna Scheyett at the University of Georgia, Mariale Hardiman at Johns Hopkins University, and Amanda Moore McBride at the University of Denver.
![University of Michigan Acquires the Archives of Filmmaker Nancy Savoca](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Nancy-Savoca-150x150.jpg)
University of Michigan Acquires the Archives of Filmmaker Nancy Savoca
Savoca has been a filmmaker for 25 years. She won the grand jury prize at the inaugural Sundance Film Festival in 1989 for her film True Love.
![Five Women Appointed to Positions as Dean at Major Universities](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/katherineschultz-150x150.jpg)
Five Women Appointed to Positions as Dean at Major Universities
The new deans are Katherine Schultz at the University of Colorado, Sabrina Zirkel at Santa Clara University in California, Mary McKernan McKay at Washington University in St. Louis, Marta Kuzma at the Yale School of Art, and Lori Ploutz-Snyder at the University of Michigan.
![Nine Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Posts at Colleges and Universities](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Trueba-150x150.jpg)
Nine Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Posts at 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.
![The New President of Marygrove College in Detroit](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Burns.jpg)
The New President of Marygrove College in Detroit
Since June 2015 Elizabeth Burns has served as interim provost at the college. Earlier, she was associate dean for faculty and clinical affairs in the School of Medicine at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.
![Three Women Named Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity at UMBC](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/UMBC_Seal.png)
Three Women Named Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity at UMBC
Three women make up the third cohort of the Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty Diversity at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. They are Keisha McIntosh Allen, Nkiru Nnawulezi, and Mejdulene Shomali.
![Four Women Scholars Taking on New Faculty Roles](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/mukherjee.jpg)
Four Women Scholars Taking on New Faculty Roles
Taking on new roles are Bhramar Mukherjee at the University of Michigan, Judy J. Cha at Yale University in Connecticut, Colleen Hanabusa at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Rebecca Weber at Oklahoma State University.
![New York University's Ada Ferrer to Be Awarded the Frederick Douglass Book Prize](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/AdaFerrerfacultyProfile.jpg)
New York University’s Ada Ferrer to Be Awarded the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
She is a professor of history and professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies at New York University. Professor Ferrer will receive the $25,000 prize for the best book of the year on slavery or abolition at ceremonies in New York this coming February.
![Martha Minow Selected to Receive the $25,000 Gittler Prize](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/minow-150x150.jpg)
Martha Minow Selected to Receive the $25,000 Gittler Prize
A professor and dean of Harvard Law School, Martha Minow was named the winner of the 2015-16 Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize from Brandeis University. The prize honors “a lasting contribution to racial, ethnic, or religious relations.”
![Boston College Sociologist Wins Book Award](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/hesse-biber-150x150.jpg)
Boston College Sociologist Wins Book Award
Sharlene Hesse-Biber, a professor of sociology at Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, has been selected to received the 2015 Alpha Sigma Nu Book Award. Alpha Sigma Nu is an honor society for scholars at Jesuit institutions of higher learning.
![New Academic Study Finds Having Children Before Marriage No Longer Predicts Divorce](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Musick.jpg)
New Academic Study Finds Having Children Before Marriage No Longer Predicts Divorce
New research from scholars at Cornell University and the University of Michigan finds that unmarried couples who cohabitate and have a baby together and then get married are no more likely to divorce than couples who marry before they have a child.
![Mary Sue Coleman Chosen to Lead the Association of American Universities](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/mary-sue-coleman-thumb-150x150.jpg)
Mary Sue Coleman Chosen to Lead the Association of American Universities
Dr. Coleman has served as president of the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa. She will lead an association that represents 60 research universities in the United States and two in Canada. Member institutions confer nearly one half of all doctoral degrees awarded in the United States.
![Survey Finds That 23 Percent of Undergraduate Women Are Subjected to Unwanted Sexual Contact](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Climate-Survey-Homepage-Graphic1.jpg)
Survey Finds That 23 Percent of Undergraduate Women Are Subjected to Unwanted Sexual Contact
A major new study on sexual assault on 27 college campuses was recently published by the Association of American Universities. The report found that 23 percent of undergraduate women students said that they had been victims of sexual contact involving physical force or incapacitation since entering college.
![U.S. Justice Department Debuts New Website on Campus Sexual Assault](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Hansen.jpg)
U.S. Justice Department Debuts New Website on Campus Sexual Assault
The Center for Changing Our Campus Culture offers a wide variety of information on sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on campus. It provides a wealth of information for law enforcement, victim service providers, students, parents and other key stakeholders to use to improve campus safety.
![<em>Business Insider</em> Honors the "Groundbreaking Women Scientists" at U.S. Universities](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Dr.-Cori-Bargmann.jpg)
Business Insider Honors the “Groundbreaking Women Scientists” at U.S. Universities
Business Insider recently published its list of “50 Groundbreaking Scientists Who are Changing the Way We See the World.” Of these 50 groundbreaking scientists, 15 are women and 11 of these women have current ties to academic institutions in the United States.
![In Memoriam: Claudia Alexander, 1959-2015](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ClaudiaAlexander-NEWS-WEB.jpg)
In Memoriam: Claudia Alexander, 1959-2015
Dr. Alexander joined the staff at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1986. She was the project manager for the Galileo mission to Jupiter, the Cassini mission to Saturn, and the lead U.S. scientist on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission to rendezvous with a comet.
![Two Women Economic Scholars Appointed to Top Government Posts](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/SandraBlack.jpg)
Two Women Economic Scholars Appointed to Top Government Posts
Sandra Black of the University of Texas at Austin has been has been appointed to serve as one of three members of the Council of Economic Advisers. Kathryn M.E. Dominguez of the University of Michigan was named to the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System.
![Should Women's Collegiate Sports Teams Use "Lady" in Their Nicknames?](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/LadyVols.png)
Should Women’s Collegiate Sports Teams Use “Lady” in Their Nicknames?
Nearly 100 colleges and universities who are members of the National Collegiate Athletic Association use the term “Lady” to describe their women’s sports teams. The University of Tennessee has decided to no longer do so.
![In Memoriam: Judith A. Layzer, 1962 -2015](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/layzerJ-150x150.jpg)
In Memoriam: Judith A. Layzer, 1962 -2015
She was a professor of environmental policy in the department of urban studies and planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She had served on MIT’s faculty since 2003.
![University of Notre Dame Scholar Named to Important Editorial Post](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/turner.jpg)
University of Notre Dame Scholar Named to Important Editorial Post
Julianne C. Turner, an associate professor of psychology and a fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, was named lead editor of the American Educational Research Journal.
![University of Michigan Research Finds Women Are Closing the Gender Driving Gap](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/fig5-150x150.jpg)
University of Michigan Research Finds Women Are Closing the Gender Driving Gap
The University of Michigan study found that at any given time, women are on average 41 percent of the drivers on the road. In 1963 they were 24 percent of all drivers on the road at a particular time.
![New Research Offers Evidence That Moving Up the Corporate Ladder Is More Difficult for Women With Children](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/SchipaniCindy.jpg)
New Research Offers Evidence That Moving Up the Corporate Ladder Is More Difficult for Women With Children
The study was led by Cindy Schipani, a business law professor and the Merwin H. Waterman Collegiate Professor of Business Administration in the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
![New Provosts at Three High-Ranking Colleges and Universities](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/marie-lynn-miranda.jpg)
New Provosts at Three High-Ranking Colleges and Universities
The women who have been named to provost posts are Marie Lynn Miranda at Rice University in Houston, Susan C. Baldridge at Middlebury College in Vermont, and Barbara K. Altmann at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsyvlania.
![Here Are Five Women Who Were Recently Appointed to Dean Positions](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/agbenyiga.jpg)
Here Are Five Women Who Were Recently Appointed to Dean Positions
The appointees are DeBrenna LaFa Agbenyiga at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Carol Fierke at the University of Michigan, Marie C. Foley at Seton Hall University, Lauren A. Benton at Vanderbilt University, and Barbara Ritter at Coastal Carolina University.
![University of New Hampshire Provost to Lead Phillips Exeter Academy](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/macfarlane_0.jpg)
University of New Hampshire Provost to Lead Phillips Exeter Academy
Lisa MacFarlane, provost and vice president for academic affairs at the University of New Hampshire, has been selected to be the 15th principal at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire. The elite preparatory school was founded in 1781.
![Three Women Are Finalists for the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award](https://www.wiareport.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/claremont-150x150.png)
Three Women Are Finalists for the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award
Among the five finalists are Lucie Brock-Broido of Columbia University, Angie Estes of Ashland University in Ohio, and Laura Kasischke of the University of Michigan.