Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to dean at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].
The School of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has appointed Kaci Bishop, Alexa Chew, Barbara Fedders, Deborah Gerhardt, Osamudia James, Maria Savasta-Kennedy, and Kathleen Thomas to endowed chairs.
Although there were no disparities found in the diagnosis of perinatal mood and anxiety disorder among postpartum mothers, White women were significantly more likely to receive mental health treatment than women from other racial groups.
“Witnessing undergraduate students realize their passion and love for the field of public health has been and continues to be the most rewarding aspect of my career," said Dr. Griffith, a professor in the department of health policy and management in the School of Public Health at Texas A&M University.
After serving as interim provost for the past year, Dr. Laura Stultz has been officially appointed provost of Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham, Alabama. She has been a faculty member with the college for over two decades.
The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill has partnered with Nagoya University in Japan to establish the Women's Undergraduate Cybersecurity Engagement Program, in which women students from both institutions will participate in workshops and learning simulations led by faculty from their partnering school.
A new study from researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Ohio State University has found that highly educated individuals are more likely to intend to have children than those with less educational experience.
Taking on new administrative roles relating to diversity are Alina Wong at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, Patricia Harris at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sarah Mell at the University of Vermont, and Brianna Davis Johnson at Central Ohio Technical College.
For the first time in its history, the University of Michigan has named an academic building to honor a woman. The building that houses the Life Sciences Institute, a hub for bioscience research, will be known as Mary Sue Coleman Hall. Dr. Coleman was president of the university from 2002 to 2014.
After teaching at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia, in 1979 Dr. Martin joined the music department faculty at the Univerity of North Carolina at Wilmington. She taught there for nearly 40 years.
Majorie Rosenthal was an associate professor of pediatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. At the time of her death, she was completing work on her memoir relating her experiences as a mother, daughter, pediatrician, widow, and person living with metastatic cancer.
Angela Kashuba is the new dean of the Eshelman School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dawn Brown McNair was appointed dean of mathematics and sciences at Livingstone College and Doze Y. Butler has been named dean of the School of Agriculture, Fisheries and Human Sciences at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff.
