Jennifer Hunt, who has been serving as interim dean of the University of Florida College of Medicine, has been appointed dean of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. She will be the first woman to lead the Ivy League medical school in its 229-year history
Dr. Frey was affiliated with the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania for three decades. During her tenure, she served as the college's assistant dean and director of advising.
Dr. Aiken is the founding director of the the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She has conducted extensive research on nurse's education and work environments, providing the foundation for modern staffing policies around the world.
The women taking on new academic positions are Vanessa Rose at Mount Holyoke College, Joan DerHovsepian at Rice University, Pamela Vayda at Mississippi State University-Meridian, M. Diane Burton at Cornell University, Laura W. Perna at the University of Pennsylvania, Jennifer Glover Konfrst at Drake University.
A longtime law school faculty member, Magill served as the ninth president of the University of Pennsylvania from the summer of 2022 until her resignation in December 2023. She is slated to become the next dean of the Georgetown University Law Center on August 1.
The American Animal Hospital Association is the accreditor for veterinary hospitals across the United States and Canada. Dr. Beale, associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, will become the association's next leader on April 1.
The American Stroke Association recently announced the winners of 11 awards for excellence in stroke and brain health care research. Three of the winners are women with academic ties to universities in the United States.
The women appointed to endowed professorships are Lesa Hoffman at Clemson University in South Carolina, Aiyin Chen at Oregon Health & Science University, Carmen Alvarez at the University of Pennsylvania, and Danielle Luciano at the University of Connecticut.
The National Academy of Education has elected 19 distinguished education scholars and leaders to its membership. Of the 19 new members of the National Academy of Education, 12 are women.
Monica J. Posey was named president of Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in 2016, making her the first African American woman president of a major educational institution in the Cincinnati metropolitan area. She will retire from the college in August, following over three decades of administrative service.
The three women appointed to named chairs in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia are Karen Detlefsen in philosophy, Nicole Rust in psychology, and Lilith Todd in English.
Eight women scholars affiliated with higher educational institutions in the United States were recently presented with awards at the 139th annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago.
