Tag: women in science

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].

Dr. Christine Curcio and Dr. Cynthia Owsley, longtime colleagues at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, have spent decades studying age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of central vision loss.

The new deans are Mei Zhao at the University of North Florida, Emily Roper-Doten at Brandeis University, Melissa Craft at the University of Oklahoma, Stephani Etheridge Woodson at the University of Northern Colorado, Sandra Smith at Brown University, Keisha Pollack Porter at Johns Hopkins University, Lisa Saltzman at Bryn Mawr College, and Saskia van de Gevel at Virginia Tech.

Dr. Sturtevant's award-winning book, It's All in the Delivery: Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy, explores how pregnancy tropes in comedic movies and television shows have evolved throughout U.S. history.