All Entries Tagged With: "University of North Carolina"
Andrea Hayes Dixon Named Chair of Federal Scientific Management Review Board
The Scientific Management Review Board supervises and reviews the operation of all scientific research programs within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Hayes Dixon will serve as board chair through June 2026.
New Administrative Appointments for Nine Women in Higher Education
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 contact@WIAReport.com.
Catherine Edmonds Appointed Interim Chancellor of Elizabeth City State University
For the past two years, Dr. Edmonds has served as chief of staff at North Carolina Central University. She has extensive experience in North Carolina education, in both K-12 and university settings.
Karrie Dixon Selected to Lead North Carolina Central University
Dr. Dixon has spent the past eight years as chancellor of Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina. During her tenure, the university experienced significant growth in enrollment, funding, and employee morale.
Endowed Faculty Appointments for Three Women Scholars
The endowed faculty appointments are Lana Alagha at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui at Princeton University, and Melissa Haendel at the University of North Carolina.
In Memoriam: Jane Guyer, 1943-2024
Dr. Guyer was a professor emerita at Johns Hopkins University where she formerly served as the George Armstrong Kelly Professor of Anthropology and co-chair of The Academy. Throughout her career, she conducted extensive research on economic transformations in West Africa.
Michelle W. Krause Is the New Leader of University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Health
In this role, Dr. Krause will be responsible for UAMS Health’s 535-bed hospital, outpatient clinics in central Arkansas, digital health services and clinics at eight regional campuses across the state. She serves as chair of the board of directors of the Baptist Health-UAMS Accountable Care Alliance and is also a professor in the UAMS College of Medicine.
In Memoriam: Molly Corbett Broad 1941-2023
Molly Corbett Broad was the first woman to serve as president of the University of North Carolina System and the first woman president of the American Council on Education.
Amy Dittmar Will Be the Next Provost at Rice University in Houston
Dr. Dittmar has been serving as senior vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan. Earlier, she was senior associate dean for graduate programs at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Harvard’s Susan Murphy Wins the Van Wijngaarden Award for Using Statistics to Improve Health Care Decision Making
Susan A. Murphy is the Mallinckrodt Professor of Statistics and of Computer Science and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University. Her research focuses on developing data analysis methods and experimental designs to improve real-time multi-stage decision-making in mobile health.
In Memoriam: Dawn Tranchino Provenzale
Dawn Provenzale was a professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology at the Duke University School of Medicine. She taught at Duke for nearly 30 years.
Duke University-Led Study Finds Major Lack of Knowledge on Abortion Laws and Regulations
In a national survey, the mean score for women participants was just over two correct answers out of 12 on the laws governing abortion in their state. Poverty, low levels of education, or low health literacy did not appear to be factors affecting knowledge of state abortion laws.
University of Kansas Renames its Integrated Sciences Building for Bernadette Gray-Little
Dr. Gary-Little became the 17th chancellor of the University of Kansas in 2009. She is the only woman to serve in that role. Dr. Gray-little stepped down as chancellor after the 2016-17 academic year.
Chaudron Gille Is the New Provost at the University of North Georgia in Dahlonega
Dr. Gille has served as interim provost since November 2018. Before joining the staff at the University of North Georgia, Dr. Gille was a professor of French at Gainesville State College, which merged with the University of North Georgia in 2012.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Study Finds Gender Gap Shrinks When Companies Are Required to Report Wage Data
Several nations now require companies to make their wage data public in an effort to encourage them to pay men and women equally. A recent study of companies in Denmark co-authored by scholars at several U.S. universities finds that when this policy is enacted, the gender pay gap shrinks.
Margaret Spellings to Retire as President of the University of North Carolina System in March
Before taking on her presidency, Spellings served as the U.S. Secretary of Education for President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2009 and as Chief Domestic Policy Advisor to the White House from 2001 to 2005. She has been president of the University of North Carolina Systems since 2016.
Widener University Names Its Next Provost
Dr. Scalise-Smith has been serving as dean of the College of Health Professions at Northern Kentucky University in Highland Heights. Earlier, she was vice president of the School for Online & Extended Studies and External Partnerships at Utica College in New York.
Molly Corbett Broad to Step Down From the Presidency of the American Council on Education
Molly Corbett Broad became the 12th president of the American Council on Education in 2008. She is the first woman to serve in the post since the organization’s founding in 1918. She will step down as president on October 31.
In Memoriam: Debra Saunders-White, 1957-2016
Debra Saunders-White, the 11th chancellor of North Carolina Central University in Durham, died on November 26. Dr. Saunders-White was diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2015 and took a medical leave of absence in August 2016.
In Memoriam: Sandra Lynn Morgen, 1950-2016
Dr. Morgen joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 1991 as an associate professor of sociology. She joined the anthropology department in 2002. From 1991 to 2006, Dr. Morgen was director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the university.
Woman Scholar Earns Award for Best Book on Southern History
Alison Collis Greene, an assistant professor of history at Mississippi State University, has been chosen as the winner of the Charles S. Sydnor Award from the Southern Historical Association.
Kimberly Gold Named President of Robeson Community College in North Carolina
Dr. Gold has been serving as executive vice president and chief academic officer at Isothermal Community College in Spindale, North Carolina. She has been on the faculty at Isothermal Community College since 1995.
Two Women Academics at Leading Universities Announce Their Intention to Retire in June 2017
Dr. Nancy White, the founding director of the University of North Carolina’s Coastal Studies Institute, and Dr. Diana Robertson, director of student housing at the University of Kansas, have announced they will retire at the end of the current academic year.
Nine Women Awarded Prestigious Churchill Scholarships
Nine women from the United States are among the 15 students who have been awarded Churchill Scholarships for master’s degree programs in STEM fields at the University of Cambridge in England.
Boston University Leads Archival Project of Florence Nightingale’s Letters
The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University has led an international effort to make the correspondence of Florence Nightingale available online.
Bernadette Gray-Little Named Board Chair at the Association of Public Land-grant Universities
The Association of Public Land-grant Universities is a research, policy, and advocacy organization representing 238 public research universities and land-grant institutions. Dr. Gray-Little has been chancellor of the University of Kansas since 2009.
Margaret Spellings Elected President of the University of North Carolina System
Margaret Spellings has been serving as president of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas. During President George W. Bush’s second term, Spellings was U.S. Secretary of Education.
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.
In Memoriam: Mary Theresa Somers Urbano, 1944-2015
She was a clinical professor of pediatrics emerita at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Before joining the faculty at Vanderbilt in 1999, she taught at the University of Miami for 20 years.
Clemson University Scholar Is the New Leader of the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners
Patty B. Scharko is a professor of animal and veterinary sciences and a field and extension veterinarian at Clemson University in South Carolina. She has been on the staff at Clemson since 2008. Previously, she was an extension veterinarian at the University of Kentucky.
Only One Woman Among the Five Finalists for Dean of the University of North Carolina School of Law
Since 2006, Michelle J. Anderson has served as dean of the City University of New York School of Law in Long Island City. Previously, Dean Anderson was on the faculty at the Villanova University School of Law in Pennsylvania for eight years.
University of Alabama Scholar Wins Book Award
Ellen Griffith Spears, an assistant professor in New College and the department of American studies at the University of Alabama is being honored by the medical care section of the American Public Health Association for her book on environmental racism.
Elizabeth Spencer Wins the Rea Award for Short Fiction
Spencer, now 92 years old, has taught creative writing at the University of Mississippi, Concordia University in Montreal, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of eight short story collections and nine novels.
