In her research, Dr. Murry investigates how social stressors shape the everyday life experiences, development, and well-being of African American youth and their families, especially in rural and under-resourced communities.
Dr. Benbow, dean of the Vanderbilt University's Peabody College, and her colleague David Lubinksi have received national recognition for their research on the long-term developmental trajectories of intellectually precocious children.
Dr. Sterbing taught undergraduate courses in psychological and brain sciences, behavioral biology, and neuroscience at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for over a decade.
The National Society of Genetic Counselors has honored Martha Dudek for her leadership and contributions to the discipline. At Vanderbilt University, she founded a master's degree program and a graduate-level certificate in genetic counseling, as well as a fellowship in genomics research.
The women taking on new faculty positions are Tori Young at Vanderbilt University, Sarah Font at Washington University, Lizette Zietsman at Virginia Tech, Kristina Bowdrie at Case Western Reserve University, Ana Daugherty at Wayne State University, Swetha Regunathan at Haverford College, and Andrea Hickerson at the University of Mississippi.
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new academic positions throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Susan Wente became the first woman president of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in July 2021. A biochemist by training, she previously served as the first woman provost of Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
Chapman was a longtime faculty member of Vanderbilt University's School of Nursing and served as its interim dean in the early 1980s. Later in her career, she focused on emergency medicine, promoting the discipline to nurses, medical students, and physicians.
The appointments are Sandra Guzmán at Hartnell College, Kelly Ball at James Madison University, Leigh Whitaker at the University of Pennsylvania, Angie Zirschky at Boise State University, Brandi Tatum-Fedrick at Florida A&M University, Ayanna Tweedy at Bakersfield College, Amy Owens at Vanderbilt University, and Kimberly Lewis at Rutgers University.
Dr. Range, associate professor of English at Lawrence University, was honored for her new poetry collection, Printer's First, which tells the story of the U.S. abolitionist movement with a particular focus on its print culture.
The academic women taking on new roles are Beatriz Lorenzo, Elizabeth Wyles, Megan Case, Lacie Peterson, Stephanie Payne, Sarah Stoneback, Lisa McNair, Cynthia Sides, Amy Landis, Andrea Page-McCaw, Jess Hartshorn, and Lesley Reid.
