All Entries Tagged With: "Yale University"
A Dozen Women in New Higher Education Administrative Posts
The appointees are: Mary Ellen Gillespie, Katherine Ates, Marilyn Smith, Naomi Sigg, Fiona Murray, Virginia Chapman, Pamela Jeffries, Kimberly Logan, Denise Wilbur, Shari Clarke, Trish Boyles, and Rychetta Watkins.
In Memoriam: Leslie Woodard, 1960-2013
Leslie Woodard was a lecturer in English and creative writing and dean of Calhoun College at Yale University. Before joining the faculty at Yale, she was the director of undergraduate creative writing at Columbia University in New York City.
New Award Program in Women’s Health at Yale University
With a $1 million gift for an endowment, Women’s Health Research at Yale University has established the Wendy U. and Thomas C. Naratil Pioneer Award. The award program will provide seed money for research projects on women’s health issues.
Yale University Scientist Recognized for Her Work in Computer Graphics
Holly Rushmeier, chair of the department of computer science at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, received the 2013 SIGGRAPH Award from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Growing Use of MRIs May Be Leading to Unnecessary Cancer Surgeries Among Older Women
A study by researchers at the Yale School of Medicine finds that frequent use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) may be resulting in unnecessary breast removal among many older women.
Yale Biologist Named to White House Post
Jo Handelsman, professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale University, has been selected by President Obama as associate director for science at the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Yale Continues to Wrestle With Issues of Sexual Misconduct
Yale University President Peter Salovey issued an email to the university community earlier this week that reiterated his commitment to deal with the issue of sexual misconduct on campus.
Are Women Discriminated Against in Requests for Flex-Time to Pursue Career Development Opportunities?
A new study led by Victoria L. Brescoll, an assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Yale School of Management, finds that men who request flex-time scheduling changes so they can pursue career development opportunities are more likely to be approved than women.
Joan Steitz Earns the Highest Honor From the French Academy of Sciences
Joan Steitz, the Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, is being honored for her work with non-coding RNA and for her efforts to encourage greater participation of women in science.
A Dozen Women With New Administrative Roles in Higher Education
The new appointees are Carol Giuriceo, Yvette Clayton, Dynpna Callaghan, Usha Haley, Brenda Phillips, Lisa Gilbert Williams, Gigi Peters, Patricia Pritchett, Marlene Schwartz, Elizabeth Meadows, Lynn Brusco, and Linda Noble.
Yale Establishes a Scholarship for Women in STEM Fields to Honor a Student Killed in a Campus Accident
Yale University has announced the establishment of the Michele Dufault Endowment for Yale Women in Science. Default was a Yale College senior who died in 2011 in an accident at the Sterling Chemistry Laboratory on the Yale campus.
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.
Study Finds Racial Differences in How Young Girls Are Raised That Impacts Alcohol Abuse Later in Life
The study finds that African American girls are typically raised in an environment that shields them from alcohol abuse but White American girls are often raised in an environment that tends to increase the chances that they will abuse alcohol.
In 2013, Women Earned 42 Percent of the Ivy League’s Honorary Degrees
The eight Ivy League universities gave out 52 honorary degrees this commencement season. Of the 52 honorary degrees awarded this year at Ivy League schools, 22, or slightly more than 42 percent, went to women.
Yale Research Points to a Large Gap in HPV Awareness by Educational Attainment
More than 72 percent of those with a doctoral degree and 61 percent of bachelor’s degree holders were aware of the vaccine. However, for high school dropouts, only 28 percent were aware of the HPV vaccine.
Six Women in New Faculty Roles
The women in new teaching posts are Kathleen Bieschke at Penn State, Linda Pescatello at the University of Connecticut, Alexis Abramson at Case Western Reserve University, Michaele Whelan at Emerson College, Jennifer Bloxam at Yale University, and Tricia Stuth at the University of Tennessee.
Yale Art Historian Wins Book Prize
Milette Gaifman, associate professor of the history of art and classics at Yale University, has been awarded the Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the Whitney and Betty Macmillan Center for International and Area Studies.
Three Women Taking on New Faculty Roles
Naomi Lamoreaux was named to an endowed professorship at Yale University. Joy Hughes is transitioning from the administration to the faculty at George Mason University and Noreen Klein is assuming emerita status at Virginia Tech.
Margaret Marshall Will Be the First Woman Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation
The senior fellow presides over university affairs when the president is absent from campus and, in conjunction with the president, is responsible for setting university policy and appointing members to key committees.
Three Women Earn Faculty Promotions
Julie Beth Zimmerman at Yale University and Deborah Cook at Virginia Tech were named to endowed chairs. Beverly Hogue was promoted to full professor at Marietta College in Ohio.
Six Women Named to Endowed Chairs
The women appointed to named professorships are Melanie Cooper at Michigan State, Angela Smith at Washington and Lee, Kezia Page at Colgate, Carol Tenopir at the University of Tennessee, France Belanger at Virginia Tech, and Wendy Silverman at Yale.
The Late Susan Nolen-Hoeksema of Yale Honored by the Association for Psychological Science
The former chair of the department of psychology at Yale University, who died this past January, has been awarded posthumously the James McKeen Cattell Lifetime Achievement Award for Applied Research.
Three Women Are Among the Inaugural Winners of the Windham Campbell Prizes
The $150,000 prizes are awarded by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University for outstanding achievement in fiction, nonfiction, and drama.
Five Women Scholars Earn Awards
The honorees are Laura Bierema of the University of Georgia, Gail D’Onofrio of Yale Medical School. Penny Chisholm of MIT, Majida Bargach of the University of Virginia, and Carole Kimberlin of the University of Florida.
In Memoriam: Donna Kaye Diers, 1938-2013
She was the Annie W. Goodrich Professor Emerita and sixth dean of the Yale School of Nursing. She had served on the Yale School of Nursing faculty since 1964.
Megan Urry Elected President of the American Astronomical Society
An expert on supermassive black holes, Dr. Urry is the Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy, director of the Center for Astronomy and Physics, and chair of the physics department at Yale University.
Two Women Named to Distinguished Professorships
Rebecca Tsosie was named a Regents Professor in the College of Law at Arizona State University and Barbara Guthrie was named the Independence Foundation Professor of Nursing at Yale University.
Three Women Named to Dean Positions
Gail Holt was named dean of financial aid at Amherst College. T. Kyle Vanderlick was reappointed dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Yale and Bridget Keegan was named interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Creighton University in Omaha.
Four Women Scholars Appointed to Endowed Faculty Chairs
The four women named to endowed chairs are Sunghee Tak at the University of Memphis, Anne Eichmann at Yale, Elize Glaze at Coastal Carolina, and Constance Campbell at Georgia Southern University.
Three Women Named Churchill Scholars
Each year, the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States offers 14 full scholarships for students to pursue graduate studies in the sciences at Cambridge University in England. This year, three of the 14 winners are women.
In Memoriam: Claude-Anne Lopez, 1920-2012
She was a leading authority on Benjamin Franklin who spent decades working on the Franklin Papers project at the Yale University Library.
Yale University Study Shows Obese Women May Be Subject to Bias in the Courtroom
Researchers at the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University finds that a defendant’s gender and body weight has an impact on jurors’ perception of guilt.
In Memoriam: Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, 1959-2013
An expert on depression among women and girls, Dr. Nolen-Hoeksema was chair of the department of psychology at Yale University.
Yale Study Questions Cost Effectiveness of Enhanced Breast Cancer Screenings for Older Women
More than $1 billion per year is spent on breast cancer screening for older women in the Medicare program. A new study by researchers at Yale finds that increased expenditures are not finding more cancers.
A New Dean for the Vanderbilt Divinity School
Emilie M. Townes currently serves as the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of African American Religion and Theology at Yale Divinity School. She also is the associate dean of academic affairs. She will assume her new post in July.
