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Two Women Announce Their Retirements From High-Level Posts in Academia
Margaret Grey, dean of the School of Nursing at Yale University, has announced that she will step down from her post in August 2015. Christina Chavez Kelly has retired from her position as assistant vice president in the Office of Student Diversity and Outreach at New Mexico State University.
Four Women Named Chairs of Academic Departments at Major Universities
The new department chairs are Teresa Waters at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Lisa Marie Assante at the University of West Florida, J. Catherine Scott-Moncrief at Purdue University, and Jacqueline Goldsby at Yale University.
Four Women Scholars Honored With Prestigious Awards
The honorees are Margaret Clark, a professor of psychology at Yale, Kristen Sanford Bernhardt, a civil engineer at Lafayette College, Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor of mathematics at Stanford, and Libo Shan, a plant molecular biologist at Texas A&M University.
The New Head of Women’s Studies at Yale University
Kathryn Lofton, a professor of religious studies and a professor of American studies at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, has been chosen as chair of the university’s program in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Yale Study Questions Costs of New Breast Cancer Screening Methods for Older Women
The percentage of older women receiving breast cancer screening remained constant between 2001 and 2009. But the costs of such screenings, due to advanced technology, increased from $666 million in 2001 to $962 million in 2009. There was no increase in breast cancer detections among older women.
A Pair of Women Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Claire S. Philipp was appointed and endowed chair in hematology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University and Teresa Berger is the inaugural Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology at Yale University.
Yale University Archives Acquires the Papers of Vita Sackville-West
Sackville-West was best known for her poetry, novels, and gardening books. She and her husband Harold Nicholson were both prominent English literary figures of the early twentieth century.
The First Afghan Woman to Graduate From Yale
Wazhma Sadat was five years old when the Taliban gained political control in Afghanistan. Her family fled to Pakistan so she and her sisters could continue to go to school. At age 8, Sadat began to weave carpets to help support her family.
Yale University Names Two Women to Important Posts
Tamar Gendler, the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy, was named the inaugural dean of the Faculty of the Arts and Sciences. Lynn Cooley, the C.N.H. Long Professor of Genetics, was appointed dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science.
Only One Woman Among the New Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
Ann Hamilton is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State University. She has been on the faculty at Ohio State since 2001. From 1985 to 1991, she taught on the faculty of the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Three Women in Important New Teaching Roles at Major Universities
Barbara Klinger was named Provost’s Professor at Indiana University and Sonia Ryang was appointed to an endowed chair at Rice University in Houston. Joan Feigenbaum was named chair of the computer science department at Yale University.
Yale University’s Joan Steitz Elected to the United Kingdom’s Royal Society
Joan Steitz, the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, is one of only 10 foreign members elected to the Royal Society, the U.K.’s national academy of science, this year.
University of Cincinnati’s Christy Holland to Lead the Acoustical Society of America
Dr. Holland is a professor in the division of cardiovascular health and diseases at the University of Cincinnati. She is also associate director of research for the Heart, Lung, and Vascular Institute.
Four Women Who Are Stepping Down From Their Higher Education Posts
The women stepping down from administrative or faculty posts are Dorothy Robinson at Yale University, Linda Abriola at Tufts University, Carolyn Callahan at the University of Louisville, and Elizabeth Tyree at the University of North Dakota.
Seven Women Scholars Awarded Distinguished Honors
The seven women who have been selected to receive prestigious awards are Alice Baumgartner, Stephanie Luster-Teasley, Martha Hilley, Denise Mallor, Allison Joseph, Alison Chapman, and Velma McBride Murry.
Fifteen Women in New Administrative Roles at U.S. Colleges and Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of new on appointments of women to key administrative positions at colleges and universities across the United States.
Phoebe Haddon Named Chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden
Since 2009 Dr. Haddon has been dean of the Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland. Before becoming dean in 2009, Haddon served on the faculty at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University in Philadelphia.
In Memoriam: Olivia Remie Constable, 1960-2014
Dr. Constable was the Robert M. Conway Director of the Medieval Institute and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame. A graduate of Yale University, she earned a Ph.D. in Near Eastern history at Princeton University.
The New Provost and Dean of Faculty at Smith College
Katherine Anandi Rowe joined the Bryn Mawr College faculty in 1998 and was promoted to full professor in 2004. From 1992 to 1998, she was an assistant professor of English at Yale University.
Yale’s Jane Greenwood to Receive Lifetime Tony Award
Jane Greenwood has served as a professor of design at the Yale School of Drama since 1976. She has also been the costume designer for more than 125 Broadway shows since 1963.
Four Women in New Teaching Roles
The women in new teaching roles are Lydia Bourouiba at MIT, Sonja Stephenson Watson at the University of Texas at Arlington, Leah Hager Cohen at the College of the Holy Cross and Xiaohong Chen at Yale University.
In Memoriam: Helen Tartar, 1951-2014
Helen Tartar, the editorial director of Fordham University Press, died in an automobile accident in Colorado on March 3. Tarter joined Fordham University Press in 2003 after a 20-year career in scholarly publishing on the West Coast.
Can a Text Messaging Education Program Increase the Rate and Duration of Breastfeeding?
The study, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and conducted by researchers at the Yale University School of Public Health, will involve 250 new low-income mothers in Connecticut.
Yale Medical School Study Finds Many Women Are Lacking Knowledge on Reproductive Health
Large percentages of women are unaware of risks to fertility, proper prenatal health, and the adverse effects of advanced age on reproductive success. Many women also believe in myths regarding how to increase the chance of becoming pregnant.
Academic Research Finds Gender Differences in HIV Treatment for Inmates Released From Jail
Jaimie Meyer, of the Yale School of Medicine and lead author of the study, stated, “Women living with HIV and transitioning from jail often have severe psychiatric and substance use disorders that interfere with healthcare engagement.”
Two Women Stepping Down From Their Dean Positions
This spring Adle Naude Santos will step down as dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT and Mary Miller will leave her post as dean of Yale College. Both women will continue to teach at their universities.
Four Women Appointed to Named Professorships
The four scholars appointed to named chairs are Libby V. Morris at the University of Georgia, Quiara Alegria Hudes at Wesleyan University, Wendy Ann Lee at Yale University and Jodi Jinks at Oklahoma State University.
Yale Research Finds Gender Differences in Complications from Angioplasty
The study found that women were twice as likely as men to experience bleeding and vascular complications including heart attack, congestive heart failure, stroke, and renal failure. Younger women were twice as likely to die in the hospital.
Yale Stem Cell Researcher Honored by the American Association of Blood Banks
Diane Krause, professor of laboratory medicine, cell biology, and pathology at Yale University, was named the winner of the 2013 Tibor Greenwalt Award, honoring her research on stem cells as well as her work as a teacher and mentor.
The New Dean of Calhoun College at Yale University
April Ruiz is the assistant director for Yale College Fellowships at the Center for International and Professional Experience. Beginning in January she will be dean of the residential Calhoun College at Yale.
In Memoriam: Cynthia Eagle Russett, 1937-2013
Dr. Russett joined the faculty at Yale as a lecturer in 1967. She was promoted to full professor in 1990 and was named the Larnard Professor of History in 2002. She also taught in the women’s studies program at Yale.
Fourteen Women Win Rhodes Scholarships
Since women were first included in 1976, there have been only four times, the last being in 2011, when women outnumbered men among the American Rhodes Scholars selected in that particular year. This year there are 14 women and 18 men.
Three University Women Named Association Presidents
Marjorie Lemmon of Yale will lead the University Risk Management and Insurance Association. Clemson’s Marieke Van Puymbroeck will head the National Academy of Recreation Therapists. Lisa DeFrank-Cole of West Virginia University will lead the Women’s Leadership Affinity Group.
Five Women in New Teaching Roles at American Universities
The appointees are María del Carmen Caña Jiménez at Virginia Tech, Megan Vaughn at the City University of New York, Christine Jacobs-Wagner at Yale, Bernice Hausman at Virginia Tech, and Nereem Arastu at the CUNY School of Law.
Three Women in New Teaching Roles
Carolyn Mazure was appointed to a named chair at Yale University. Molly Land has joined the faculty at the University of Connecticut and Cindy Bernard is the inaugural Ruffin Distinguished Artist in Residence at the University of Virginia.
