New Faculty Appointments for Four Women

Nadine Aubry was named University Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. She has held the Raymond J. Lane Distinguished Professorship in mechanical engineering at the university. A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Professor Aubry is an internationally known expert in the field of fluid dynamics.

Dr. Aubry is a graduate of the National Polytechnic Institute in Grenoble, France. She holds a master’s degree from the Science and Medical University, also in Grenoble. She earned a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Karen Dreyfus has agreed to join the faculty at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California in the fall of 2013. An acclaimed violist, Dreyfus has taught at the Manhattan School of Music since 1991. She also teaches at The Julliard School and the Mannes College New School for Music.

Dreyfus is a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

This fall Myra Sabir will assume a tenure-track faculty position in the department of human development at Binghamton University, part of the State University of New York system. She has been serving as assistant dean in the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University.

Dr. Sabir holds a master’s degree from Emory University and a Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Sierra Guynn was appointed clinical assistant professor of production management medicine at the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine. She has been in private veterinary practice.

Dr. Guynn is a graduate of Long Island University in Southampton, New York. She holds a Ph.D. in biomedical sciences and comparative physiology from the Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, Nebraska, and a doctor of veterinary medicine degree from the Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine.