Tag: Yale University

New Roles for a Dozen Administrators in Higher Education

Here is this week’s roundup of higher education administrators who have been appointed to new positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Bonnie Weir to Lead Yale’s New Center for Peace and the Global Good

Dr. Weir is a senior lecturer of global affairs at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. She was recently named the inaugural executive director of the Jackson School's new Center for Peace and the Global Good, a hub for scholars and students working to address challenges in human rights and global health.

Five Women Scholars Named to Endowed Positions

The women who have been selected for endowed positions are Yuehwern Yih at Purdue University in Indiana, Dominique Somda at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, Abigail Swingen at Yale University, Erika Consoli at the University of Idaho, and Melanie Kornides at the University of Pennsylvania.

Yale Selects Five Women for Endowed Faculty Appointments

The women selected for endowed positions in Yale's Faculty of Arts and Sciences are Gundula Kreuzer in music, Nancy Yousef in English, Marlene Daut in Black Studies and in French, and Leah Boustan and Xiaohong Chen in economics.

Ten Women Scholars Appointed to New Roles in Academia

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty positions at universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

New Faculty Roles for a Dozen Women in Higher Education

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 contact@WIAReport.com.

Yale’s Mae-ling Lokko Recognized for Her Work in Architectural Design

Dr. Lokko focuses her work on the intersectoral design and research of bio-based materials to drive ecological health and generative justice goals. She currently serves as an assistant professor in the School of Architecture and assistant director of the Center for Ecosystems in Architecture at Yale University.

A Trio of Women Selected for Top Leadership Roles at Universities

Katrina Spencer and Kerry Bierman are the new chief financial officers at Yale University and the University of California, Santa Barbara, respectively. Amy Bantle is chief marketing and communications officer at Washington University in Missouri.

Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg Recognized for Career Achievement in Economics

An applied microeconomist, Dr. Goldberg, former chief economist of the World Bank Group, has fundamentally shaped the empirical study of global trade and development. She has been a faculty member in the department of economics and the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University of the past 25 years.

Recent Book Awards for Three Women Scholars at Universities

Vanderbilt University's Shatema Threadcraft received two book awards from the American Political Science Association. Lisa Messeri of Yale University was honored by the Society for Cultural Anthropology and Fiona Cunningham of the University of Pennsylvania was honored by Cornell University.

New Endowed Professorships for Three Women in Academia

The women who have been appointed to endowed faculty positions are Uma Reddy at the Yale School of Medicine, Carolyn J. Anderson at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Laura Murray-Kolb at Purdue University in Indiana.

In Memoriam: Patricia Kane, 1944–2026

Dr. Kane was a curator with Yale University's Garvan and Related Collections of American Art for nearly six decades. She was a scholar of American decorative arts who specialized in early American furniture, seventeenth-century silver, and contemporary craft.