The honorees are Carol Rosen of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Reena Mehra of the University of Washington, and Ilene Rosen of the University of Pennsylvania.
While boys and girls continue to associate computer science and engineering as professions for men, a new study has found K-12 students are more likely to believe women are stronger performers in mathematics and just as competent as men in science.
The appointments are Savanna Wood at Northwestern University in Illinois, Tammy Moore at Hollins University in Virginia, Tina Pamintuan at the University of Washington, Kang Xia at Michigan State University, and Sonya Maria Hadrigan at the University of Rochester in New York.
According to the study's findings, a large portion of women who died by firearm suicide in the U.S. had limited or no history of mental or physical health concerns prior to their deaths, suggesting a need to develop new prevention strategies outside of healthcare settings.
Dr. King, the American Cancer Society Professor of Medical Genetics and Genome Sciences at the University of Washington, was honored by the National Academy of Sciences for her outstanding use of forensic genetics to reunite families torn apart by violence from around the world.
A Georgia State faculty member since 2019, Dr. Gilmore focuses her work on the prevention and treatment of several public health issues, particularly among underserved groups.
A scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, Dr. La Belle was the first woman tenure-track hire and the first woman to be awarded tenure at the California Institute of Technology.
Dr. Cain currently serves as a research fellow at the University of Michigan, where she is working to develop novel analytical and computational tools to study neurochemical dynamics.
Effective January 2025, Barbara Jung will become the first woman dean of the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. She currently serves as the first woman chair of the department of internal medicine at the University of Washington.
For nearly three decades, Dr. Valentine served as a professor of communication and women's studies at Arizona State University. Her academic interests centered around performance studies.
Dr. Schmiesing brings three decades of administrative and academic experience at the University of Colorado Boulder to her new position. Most recently, she has been serving as the vice chancellor for academic resources management.
