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 [email protected].
The appointments are Yiyun Li at Princeton University, Verity Harte of Yale University, Pavithra Prabhakar at the University of New Mexico, Sarah Bilston at Trinity College in Connecticut, Linda Tropp at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Christina Ramos at Washington University in St. Louis, and Terry Kind at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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.
The appointments are Marie Johns at Howard University, Jennifer Jennings at Princeton University, Sarah Reisman at the California Institute of Technology, Jeanne Gillespie at the University of Southern Mississippi, and Diana Montaño at Washington University.
Deanna M. Barch of Washington University and Brenda Major of the University of California, Santa Barbara have both received the Association of Psychological Science's William James Fellow Award, which honors lifetime achievement in psychology research.
The women taking on new academic roles are Meng Zhu at Virginia Tech, Sara Roccabianca at Washington University, Ayako Kano at the University of Pennsylvania, Vicky Lai at the University of Arizona, Jennifer Hunter at the University of Kentucky, Laura Machia at Syracuse University, Allison Koenecke at Cornell University, Tamara Caspary at Emory University, Nukhet Sandal at Ohio University, and Debbie Fleming at Central Baptist College.
Patricia Washington McGraw taught at three institutions throughout the state of Arkansas, including the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she was hired as the first-ever Black faculty member in 1971.
The appointments to endowed positions are Carmella Kahn at the University of New Mexico, Jiwon Choi at Northwest Missouri State University, Anne Larkin at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Betsy Sinclair at Washington University in St. Louis, and Nancy Yunhwa Rao at Rutgers University in New Jersey.
A new study has found most people from democratic countries want gender equality in their legislative bodies, even if that is achieved through political quotas that require gender-balanced representation in government.
Overall, incidence-based breast cancer mortality declined from 9.7 deaths per 100,000 women in 2010 to just 1.47 deaths per 100,000 women in 2020. The research team theorizes this is likely due to advancements in cancer treatment that were developed in the mid-2010s.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].
Dr. Bolton is slated to become Columbia College Chicago's first woman of color president on July 1. She has extensive experience in higher education administration, including key leadership positions with Georgia Tech, Washington University, and Tulane University.
