All Entries Tagged With: "Vanderbilt University"
Fifteen Women Appointed to Senior-Level Administrative Posts in Higher Education
The appointees are Betty A. Block, Pamela L. Jennings, Carlia Smith, Claudia Donald, Stephanie McGowan, Sue B. Workman, Cori Fata-Hartley, Doreen D. Edwards, Linda Bonnin, Cynthia J. Cyrus, Cindy Weinstein, Malika Roman Isler, Alice C. Stewart, LLJuna Weir, and Stephanie Garst.
In Memoriam: Elsie Quarterman, 1910-2014
In 1964 Professor Quarterman became the first woman to head an academic department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. In 1969 Professor Quarterman discovered living specimens of the Tennessee coneflower. The species was thought to be extinct.
Vanderbilt University Confers Emerita Status on Six Women Faculty Members
The six women named to emerita status are Susan Berk-Seligson, Carolyn J. Bess, Colleen Conway-Welch, Carol Etherington, Jane H. Park, and Charlotte-Pierce Baker.
Five Higher Educational Institutions Appoint Women as Their Provosts
The women appointed as provosts are Susan R. Wente at Vanderbilt University, Marisa Kelley at Suffolk University in Boston, Dana Dunn at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Katherine Newman at the University of Massachusetts, and Jenifer Ward at Centenary College in Louisiana.
Seven Women Tabbed for Dean Positions
The new deans are Christine Himes at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Camilla Bendow at Vanderbilt, Elizabeth Spiller at Virginia Tech, Nancy Butler Songer at Drexel, Kimberly Kempf-Leonard at the University of Louisville, Marion Preest at Scripps College, and Marsha Mailick at the University of Wisconsin.
Elizabeth Spencer Wins the Rea Award for Short Fiction
Spencer, now 92 years old, has taught creative writing at the University of Mississippi, Concordia University in Montreal, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of eight short story collections and nine novels.
Seven Women Scholars Awarded Distinguished Honors
The seven women who have been selected to receive prestigious awards are Alice Baumgartner, Stephanie Luster-Teasley, Martha Hilley, Denise Mallor, Allison Joseph, Alison Chapman, and Velma McBride Murry.
Nine Women Taking on New Administrative Duties in Higher Education
The women in new administrative posts are Lizbeth Ellis, Laverne Lewis Gaskins, Carol Tallarico, Amy Backus, Kathleen Powell, Pamela DiSalvo Lepley, Chacona W. Johnson, Lillian Hallstrand, and Barbara Meehan.
Four Women Stepping Down From Key Higher Education Posts
Sue DeWin is retiring as president of Hanover College in Indiana in 2015. Also, Carla Sanderson, provost of Union University, Nancy Meglar, provost at the University of Oklahoma, and Connie Vinita Dowell, dean at Vanderbilt University are stepping down.
Four Full Professors Receive New University Teaching Assignments
Taking on new roles are Margaret Hostetter at the University of Cincinnati, Laura Dugan at Vanderbilt University, Tracy Irani at the University of Florida, and Maria Siemionow at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Four Women Professors Earn Prestigious Honors
The four women honored with major awards are Peggy Lane of Emporia State University in Kansas, Velma McBride Murry of Vanderbilt University, Karen Watkins of the University of Georgia, and Anne Turner-Henson of the University of Alabama Birmingham.
Vanderbilt University to Open New Center for Sexual Assault Prevention
In the past Project Safe operated out ot the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center on campus. Beginning this fall Project Safe will have a new home on campus.
Three Women Named to Endowed Chairs at Vanderbilt University
The three women named to endowed chairs at Vanderbilt University are Lorrie Moore in creative writing, Sheila H. Ridner in nursing, and Emilie M. Townes, who is dean of the university’s divinity school.
Ann Kaiser Will Receive the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council for Exceptional Children
Dr. Ann Kaiser is professor of special education and professor of psychology and the holder of the Susan Gray Chair in Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She will be honored in Philadelphia in April.
Carolyn Dever Appointed Provost at Dartmouth College
Carolyn Dever has spent the past six years as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. At Dartmouth she will hold a faculty position in the English department in addition to her duties as provost.
A Trio of Women Scholars in New Teaching Roles
The women taking on new teaching assignments are Beth B. Phillips at the University of Georgia, Karyn Rogers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and Sheri Wilner at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
New Administrative Posts at Universities for Six Women
The appointees are Lindsey Douglas at the University of Kansas, Elizabeth Wark at Western Carolina University, Lori McElroy at the University of Wisconsin, Martha Connolly at the University of Maryland, Kesha Williams at Clemson University, and Natasha Cupps at Vanderbilt University.
Two Women Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Vanderbilt University
Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, recently announced the appointment of 12 faculty members to endowed chairs. Two of the 12 professors appointed to named chairs are women. They are Senta Victoria Greene and Ruth Hill.
The New Director of the Women’s Center at Vanderbilt University
Dr. Adale Sholock has served for nearly the past five years as director of the Women’s Center at West Chester University of Pennsylvania, where she also taught in the women’s and gender studies program.
In Memoriam: Jean Bethke Elshtain, 1941-2013
She was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at University of Chicago Divinity School. Earlier in her career, she was the first woman to hold an endowed professorship at Vanderbilt University.
In Memoriam: Jacqueline Fowler Byers, 1957-2013
Dr. Byers served on the faculty at the University of Central Florida from 1998 to 2012. Earlier in her career she was director of research at Orlando Health and held clinical positions at Vanderbilt University Hospital and Duke University Hospital.
A Dozen Women With New Administrative Roles in Higher Education
The new appointees are Carol Giuriceo, Yvette Clayton, Dynpna Callaghan, Usha Haley, Brenda Phillips, Lisa Gilbert Williams, Gigi Peters, Patricia Pritchett, Marlene Schwartz, Elizabeth Meadows, Lynn Brusco, and Linda Noble.
Research Finds Gender Gap Among College Graduates of Art Programs
One of the more positive findings in the report shows that women who studied in art disciplines in college and had careers in the field faced no wage penalty when they had children, unlike women working in most other fields.
Three Women Named Deans
Linda Norman was named dean of the School of Nursing at Vanderbilt University. Bridget Terry Long is the new academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Mary Ann Prater was named dean of education at Brigham Young University.
Nine Women Named Emerita Faculty at Vanderbilt University
The nine women retiring from the Vanderbilt faculty who were granted emerita status are M. Francille Bergquist, Vera A. Stevens Chatman, Charlotte M. Covington, Kathleen V. Hoover-Dempsey, Carolyn Hughes, Jane Kirchner, Jeannette J. Norden, Ronnie J. Steinberg, and Mary Theresa Urbano.
A Quartet of Women Scholars Honored With Awards
The honorees are Velma McBride Murry of Vanderbilt University, Teresa Sullivan of the University of Virginia, Mary Lynn McPherson of the University of Maryland, and Anne Ponder of the University of North Carolina Asheville.
Women Graduates of Elite Schools Are Less Likely to Work Than Other Women College Graduates
A study by Joni Hersch, a professor of law at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, finds that women graduates of top-tier colleges and universities tend to work fewer hours than women who graduated from less selective institutions.
Four Women in New University Administrative Positions
Taking on new responsibilities are Audrey Anderson at Vanderbilt University, Joan Leavens at Kansas State University, Karla Leeper at Baylor University, and Sandra Danoff at Duke University.
Two Women Named to Endowed Chairs at Vanderbilt University
Lorrie Moore, now at the University of Wisconsin, was named to an endowed chair in English and will begin teaching at Vanderbilt this fall. Celia Applegate now holds an endowed chair at Vanderbilt after teaching at the University of Rochester for 24 years.
A New Dean for the Vanderbilt Divinity School
Emilie M. Townes currently serves as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale Divinity School. She also is the associate dean of academic affairs. She will assume her new post in July.
Two Women Named to Endowed Chairs
Isabel Gauthier was named to an endowed chair in psychology at Vanderbilt University and Tamar Gendler was appointed to an endowed chair in philosophy at Yale University.
Vanderbilt Honors Woman Who Provided the Land for the University’s Campus
One of the sections in a new $115 million residence hall complex on the Vanderbilt campus will be named in honor of nineteenth-century philanthropist Elizabeth Boddie Elliston.
In Memoriam: Alyne Queener Armistead Massey, 1927-2012
She served on the board of trustees of Vanderbilt University from 1977 to 2003 and the law library at the university is named in her honor.
Yale University’s Joan Steitz Receives Two Major Awards
Dr. Steitz, a pioneer in the field of RNA biology, will receive the 2012 Pearl Meister Greengard Prize from Rockefeller University and the 2012 Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science.
Four Women Named to Endowed Chairs at Vanderbilt University
The new holders of the endowed chairs are Shari Barkin, Heidi Hamm, Linda Norman and Tracy Sharpley-Whiting.
