The women appointed to dean positions are Bárbara Brizuela at Tufts University in Massachusetts, Debra L. Haggins at Hampton University in Virginia, Diane Foster at the Woods Hold Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, Hannah Brenner Johnson at Southern Illinois University, Sara Schwerdtfeger at Emporia State University in Kansas, and Amy Fleischer at Boise State University in Idaho.
Priya Ganguli, a postdoctoral scholar in marine chemistry and geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts, will be honored at the annual convention of the Geological Society of America in Baltimore this coming November.