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

Dr. Adamski is an associate professor and program director of the adult-gerontology acute care nurse practitioner program at the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta. She is also a critical care acute care nurse practitioner for the Critical Care Flight team at Cleveland Clinic, the first in the nation to have a nurse practitioner-managed flight team.

The three women appointed to provost positions are Neslihan Alp at the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, Andrea Kent at the University of South Alabama, and Anne D’Alleva at the University of Connecticut.

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

The researchers found that while women are 51 percent of the U.S. population and 60 percent of the college students in biology, they were only 13 percent of the scientists featured in biology textbooks. However, the percentage of women featured in textbooks published after 2000 has more than doubled.

Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties.

Amy Rosonet LeBert will serve as president-elect for 2019 before transitioning to president in 2020. She is a clinical instructor and director of the Speech Pathology Clinic at the University of Southern Mississippi. She has taught at the School of Speech & Hearing Sciences at the university for the past 11 years.

Most recently, Hughston was vice president of instruction and workforce development at Coastal Alabama Community College. Earlier, she was the dean of workforce development and technology at Faulkner State Community College in Bay Minette, Alabama.

The honorees are Rebecca Roesner of Illinois Wesleyan University, Karen L. Wooley of Texas A&M University, Krista Harrell of the University of South Alabama, and Beverly J. Warren who will soon become president of Kent State University in Ohio.

Among the 30 finalists are books by 15 women. Nine of the 15 women finalists have affiliations with higher education in the United States.

Deborah Spake has been serving as associate dean and professor of marketing at the Mitchell College of Business at the University of South Alabama in Mobile.

She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of South Alabama.