A faculty member for the past three decades, Dr. Boor has led graduate studies at Cornell University for the past four years. She will step down from her role on June 30.
Since 2000, Professor Crenshaw has held joint faculty appointments with Columbia Law School in New York and the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law.
For nearly two decades, Wroe served as a professor of physical therapy at the University of Florida, where she co-founded the department of physical therapy.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].
For over 25 years, Dr. Arnstine served as a professor of education at California State University, Sacramento, where she taught courses on teacher preparation and the philosophy of education.
Lorrie Moore, professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, was recognized for her novel I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home. She has authored numerous other publications throughout her four-decades long career, including three other novels, many short-stories, and various works of nonfiction.
For more than a decade, Dr. Morna Foy has served as president of the Wisconsin Technical College System, a consortium of 16 technical colleges throughout the state of Wisconsin.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse and the founder and director of its Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
In addition to her service as dean of the Honors College at Texas Southern University, Dr. Jemison Pollard was chair of the department of fine arts at the university for 10 years. She also was an award-winning university stage director who directed over 50 productions.
Dr. Shalala was the president of the University of Miami from 2001 to 2015. During the Clinton administration, Dr. Shalala served as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services for eight years. Earlier in her career, she was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and president of Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Tina Eliassi-Rad,, a professor of computer science at Northeastern University, recently received the Lagrange Prize from the CRT Foundation in Turin Italy. The prize is considered the highest international recognition for scientists in the field of complex systems and data.
