The new deans are Malini Suchak at Loyola University Chicago, Kristin McCauliff at Ball State University in Indiana, Dana Davis at Gadsden State Community College in Alabama, Leslie Edgar at the University of Idaho, Alexa Doig at New Mexico State University, Shreerekha Pillai at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and Elizabeth Gmitter at Valparaiso University in Indiana.
Lissa Jean Yogan had a four-decades long career in higher education, including nearly 30 years as a faculty member in the department of sociology and criminology at Valparaiso University in Indiana.
Professor Ell joined the faculty at the University of Southern California in 1980 and was promoted to full professor in 1991. She was the first researcher to link depression with an increase in mortality among coronary care patients.
Irwin-Knott has been a member of the university's board of trustees since 2009. She has spent her career in the field of public finance with HJ Umbaugh & Associates in Indianapolis retiring as a partner in 2014. She worked closely with educators throughout Indiana on hundreds of school and library projects involving the issuance of municipal bonds.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Andrea L. Turpin is an associate professor of history at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, won the award that honors "an original and imaginative work that exemplified the principles of faith and learning in the Christian intellectual tradition."
When she takes office on July 1, Dr. Cheryl B. Schrader will be the first woman to serve as president of Wright State University. Currently, she is chancellor of the Missouri University of Science and Technology. She is the first woman to serve as chancellor at the university.
The new deans are Christine Spencer at the University of Baltimore, Karen Allen at Valparaiso University in Indiana, Adrienne Frame at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, and Cindy Juntunen at the University of North Dakota.
Dr. Holman is a senior writer at the Global Health Education and Learning Incubator at Harvard University. The award is one of five Grawemeyers given out annually by the University of Louisville. Each Grawemeyer Award comes with a $100,000 honorarium.
The honorees are Kethleen Lowney of Valdosta State University in Georgia, Andrea Modica at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Sarah G. Holterhoff at Valparaiso University in Indiana, Daniell Walsh at East Carolina University, Judith Cone at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Jennifer Katona at the City University of New York.
The recipients of these major national awards are: Maria Rosario Araneta, Meena Kumari, Kelly Drew, Mary Rogus, Alva Ferdinand, Sarah Holterhoff, Paula Agudelo, Elizabeth H. Maples, and Melody Bianchetto.
The honorees are Lara Pudwell of Valparaiso University, Nancy Amato of Texas A&M, Elizabeth Gerber of Northwestern, Cecilia Graham of the University of Alabama Birmingham, Linda Gottfredson of the University of Delaware, Elizabeth Jones of the University of Nebraska, and Luisa Igloria of Old Dominion University.
