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New Administrative Posts for Nine Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Carol Christ to Serve as Provost at the University of California, Berkeley
From 2002 to 2013, Dr. Christ was president of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Before leading Smith College, Dr. Christ served on the Berkeley faculty for 30 years, including six years as executive vice chancellor and provost.
Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California, Chooses Its Next President
Thuy Thi Nguyen currently serves as general counsel for the chancellor’s office of California Community Colleges. When she takes office at Foothill College, Nguyen will be the first Vietnamese American to lead a community college in California.
New Assignments for 10 Women Faculty Members at Major Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions.
Six Women Faculty Members Appointed to New Positions
Appointed to new faculty posts are Jeannette R. Ickovics at Yale University, Jane D. McLeod at Indiana University, Taja-Nia Y. Henderson at Rutgers University, Renu Malhotra at the University of Arizona, Shana Levin at Claremont McKenna College, and Diane Lipscombe at Brown University.
Yale Honors the First Seven Women to Earn Ph.Ds at the University
Yale University recently honored the first women to earn Ph.D.s at the educational institution by unveiling portraits of the scholars that will be permanently displayed on campus. The women all earned their doctoral degree in 1894.
Notable Honors and Awards for 10 Women Scholars
The honorees are Ruth Harper, Jean Bolognia, M. Lisa Manning, Jennifer Van Hook, Helen Sheehy, Carla Della Datta, Faye W. Gilbert, Jennifer Freyd, Barbara Voorhies and Alexandra Navrotsky
Catharine Hill Announces She Will Step Down Next Year From Presidency of Vassar College
Before becoming the tenth president of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, in 2006, Dr. Hill was provost at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She joined the economics faculty at Williams in 1985.
In Memoriam: Zaha Hadid, 1950-2016
In addition to her very successful architectural practice, Hadid held the Kenzo Tange Chair at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the Sullivan Chair in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois.
In Memoriam: Branka M. Ladanyi, 1947-2016
Professor Ladanyi joined the faculty at Colorado State University in 1979. Her research focused on the theoretical modelling of dynamics and intermolecular structure in liquids.
In Memoriam: Barbara Mary Rosenthal Almond, 1938-2016
Dr. Almond taught psychiatry at Stanford University and the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis. She was also an author and practiced psychiatry in Palo Alto, California, for more than 40 years.
Mills College Names Elizabeth Hillman as Its Next President
Professor Hillman currently serves as provost, academic dean, and professor of law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law in San Francisco. Previously, she served as professor of law and director of faculty development at the Rutgers University School of Law in Newark, New Jersey.
In Memoriam: Helen Elizabeth Garrett, 1963-2016
Elizabeth Garrett was the 13th president of Cornell University and its first woman president. She had served as Cornell’s president for only eight months. Earlier, she was a professor of law, provost, and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Five Women Appointed to Positions as Dean at Major Universities
The new deans are Katherine Schultz at the University of Colorado, Sabrina Zirkel at Santa Clara University in California, Mary McKernan McKay at Washington University in St. Louis, Marta Kuzma at the Yale School of Art, and Lori Ploutz-Snyder at the University of Michigan.
Four Women in High-Level University Posts Are Stepping Down
The women who have announced they are stepping down are Penelope Laurans at Yale University, Christine Ortiz at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Christine McCormick at the University of Massachusetts, and Grace E. Harris at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Four Women Scholars Presented With Notable Awards
The honorees are Meira L. Orentlicher of the Touro College School of Health Sciences, Teresa Cordova of the University of Illinois at Chicago, Sheila Levrant de Bretteville of Yale University, and Nancy Condee of the University of Pittsburgh.
Four Women Scholars Named to Endowed Chairs at Major Universities
The four women appointed to endowed chairs are Carolyn N. Dean at Yale University, Tracy Kahn at the University of California, Riverside, Karen J. Castle at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and Mari Tietze at Texas Woman’s University.
American Woman Academics Named Finalists for the National Book Critics Circle Awards
The National Book Critics Circle Awards are given out in six categories with five finalists in each category. Several of the finalists are women who currently hold academic posts at American colleges and universities.
New Positions in Higher Education for Nine Women Scholars
Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions.
Nine Women Taking on New Administrative Duties at American Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Six Women Faculty Members Have Been Appointed to New Positions
The six women in new roles are C. Jessie Jones at California State University, Fullerton, Laurie Sharp at West Texas A&M University, Patty Limerick of the University of Colorado, Brenda McComb at Oregon State University, Laura E. Niklason at Yale University, and Laurel Hartman at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
University of Texas at Austin Names Its Next Provost
Maurie D. McInnis currently serves as vice provost for academic affairs and a professor of art history at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. She will begin her new duties in Austin on July 1.
Women Taking on New Administrative Roles in Higher Education
The five women appointed to new administrative posts are Monica Scott at Lane College, Pamela L.A. Barkett at Stevenson University, Fatima M. Mncube-Barnes at Howard University, Eileen O’Connor at Yale University, and Joanna Bean at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.
Susan Hockfield to Lead the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Susan Hockfield, president emerita of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will officially become president-elect at the conclusion of the 182nd annual meeting of the association in Washington this coming February. A year later, she will become the association’s president.
Group Prenatal Care Sessions Can Lead to Better Maternal and Infant Health
A new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finds that young pregnant women who attended group prenatal care sessions were healthier and had healthier babies than young women who received individual counseling.
Six Women Faculty Members Taking on New Duties at Major Universities
Taking on new roles are Alisha Holland at Princeton University, Jan Krawitz at Stanford University, Rhonda Longworth at Eastern Michigan University, Jacquelyn Taylor at Yale University, Barbara Krauthamer at the University of Massachusetts, and Selina Heppell at Oregon State University.
Colgate University Scholar Honored by the Conference on Latin American History
Heather Roller, an assistant professor of history at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, was honored for her book on the Amazon River region in Brazil during the eighteenth century.
Three Universities Make Appointments of Women to Dean Posts
Prudence Carter was named dean of the Graduate School of Education at Berkeley. Camille Lizarribar was appointed dean of student affairs at Yale and Heidi Bostic was named dean of the College of Liberal Arts at the University of New Hampshire.
Three Women Scholars Named to Endowed Chairs
The three women appointed to endowed chairs are Christine Jacobs-Wagner at Yale University in Connecticut, Mary J. Henold at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, and Anne Brunet at Stanford University in California.
Four Women Scholars Taking on New Faculty Roles
Taking on new roles are Bhramar Mukherjee at the University of Michigan, Judy J. Cha at Yale University in Connecticut, Colleen Hanabusa at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and Rebecca Weber at Oklahoma State University.
Six Women Faculty Members Taking on New Roles
The six women faculty members are Mia Levy at Vanderbilt University, Cris Mayo at West Virginia University, Annalisa Piccorelli at the University of Wyoming, Wendy R. Boswell at Texas A&M University, Verity Harte at Yale University, and Linda Moneyham at the University of Alabama Birmingham.
The Next President of the Salk Institute
Elizabeth Blackburn was named the next president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, effective January 1. The University of California, San Francisco molecular biologist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.
Six Women Scholars Receive Notable Honors or Awards
The women academics receiving honors are Katherine L. Knight of Loyola University, Robin Coste Lewis of the University of Southern California, Susan Forster of the Yale School of Medicine, Marcia Ory of the Texas A&M Health Science Center, Marie Hvidsten of North Dakota State University and Jody Donovan of Colorado State University.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
New York University’s Ada Ferrer to Be Awarded the Frederick Douglass Book Prize
She is a professor of history and professor of Latin American and Caribbean studies at New York University. Professor Ferrer will receive the $25,000 prize for the best book of the year on slavery or abolition at ceremonies in New York this coming February.
