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Rebecca Cunningham Appointed President of the University of Minnesota
Dr. Cunningham joins the University of Minnesota after more than two decades of service at the University of Michigan, where she currently serves as vice president for research and innovation and professor in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine.
Northern Michigan University Appoints Anne Dahlman Provost
Anne Dahlman, interim associate provost and interim dean of global education at Minnesota State University Mankato, has been appointed provost and vice president of academic affairs at Northern Michigan University effective April 1, 2024.
University of Rochester Appoints Sarah Mangelsdorf to Another Five-Year Term as President
Sarah Mangelsdorf has been reappointed president of the University of Rochester. During her first term, the university experienced record undergraduate applications, research expenditures, and fundraising efforts.
Study Analyzes Positive Effects of Peer Counseling Breastfeeding Programs in Rural Minnesota
Federally-funded breastfeeding peer-counseling programs have been initiated across the United States to increase the rates of breastfeeding among low-income and rural women. Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found promising results upon analyzing the success of programs in Minnesota counties.
In Memoriam: Ann Kilkelly, 1946-2023
Dr. Kilkelly began her academic career at the University of Kentucky. From 1983 to 1991, she taught at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. In 1991, she was appointed a professor of theatre and women’s and gender studies at Virginia Tech. She remained on the Virginia Tech faculty until her retirement in 2016.
Lynn Akey Will Be the Next Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside
Since 2019, Dr. Akey has been vice president for student success, analytics, and integrated planning at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has served the Mankato campus since 2000 in such roles as associate vice president for institutional research, strategy, and effectiveness and assistant to the vice president for student affairs.
New Administrative Positions for Eight Women at 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. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
Six Women Who Have Been Appointed Deans at Universities
The six women appointed deans are Tarlika Nunez-Navarro at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Florida, Margie Ferree Jones at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Melinda Pettigrew at the University of Minnesota, Cynthia Carter Ching at the University of California, Davis, Carol McNulty at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, and Junghee Lee at Portland State University in Oregon.
A Quartet of Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments in Higher Education
Taking on new positions or duties are Rossana Hu at the University of Pennsylvania, Mary Wiedenhoeft at Iowa State University, Lois Agnew, at Syracuse University in New York, and Joan Blakey at the University of Minnesota.
The Labor and Working Class History Association Recognizes the Work of Wayne State University’s Elizabeth Faue
Elizabeth Faue, professor and chair of the department of history at Wayne State University in Detroit, was selected to receive the Distinguished Service Award from the Labor and Working Class History Association, an organization she helped to establish.
After 236 Years, the University of Pittsburgh Names Its First Woman Chancellor
Since 2019, Joan T. A. Gabel was been serving as president and chief executive of the University of Minnesota System and the Twin Cities campus. From 2015 to 2019, she was the executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at the University of South Carolina. Previously, she served as dean of the University of Missouri’s Trulaske College of Business.
Marlene Zuk Has Received the Frontiers of Knowledge Award From the BBVA Foundation
The BBVA Foundation’s annual award recognizes world-class researchers who have made field-shaping discoveries in a broad array of disciplines of scientific knowledge, technology, humanities, and artistic creation. Professor Zuk was honored for outstanding contributions to the field of behavioral and evolutionary ecology.
In Memoriam: Rebecca Margaret Blank, 1955-2023
Dr. Black was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2013 to 2022. In October 2021 Northwestern University announced that Dr. Blank had been selected to serve as its seventeenth president and first woman leader. Last summer, Dr. Blank announced that she would be unable to serve due to her diagnosis of cancer.
Michigan State University’s Angela K. Wilson Wins Major Award for Women in Chemistry
Angela K. Wilson is John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Michigan State University. Dr. Wilson also serves as associate dean for strategic initiatives in the College of Natural Science and she is the current president of the American Chemical Society.
A Dozen Women Who Are Taking on New Administrative Duties at 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. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
In Memoriam: Browne C. Lewis, 1962-2022
Browne C. Lewis, dean of the North Carolina Central University School of Law, died on June 2 while attending a conference in Colorado. She was 60 years old.
Jayathi Murthy Has Been Appointed the Sixteenth President of Oregon State University
Since 2016, Dr. Murthy has been serving as the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was the first woman to hold that position. She was also a professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department.
Laura Bloomberg Named the Eighth President of Cleveland State University in Ohio
Dr. Bloomberg became provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Cleveland State on September 1, 2021. She previously served eight years as dean and as associate dean of the Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota.
Jolene Koester Selected to Serve as Chancellor of the California State University System
When Dr. Koester takes office on May 1, she will be the second woman to lead the university system. Her appointment is expected to last for one year. From 2000 to 2011, Dr. Koester was president of California State University, Northridge.
Do Corporations Add More Women to Their Boards After Increased Public Attention to Gender Equity Issues?
A new study finds that on average, more women earn positions on U.S. public company boards following rises in public attention to gender equality issues, such as the Me Too movement, but this increase in representation largely happens at firms where a more inclusive corporate culture already exists.
Angela K. Wilson Is the New President of the American Chemical Society
Angela K. Wilson is the John A. Hannah Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Michigan State University. She is a prominent scholar in the fields of theoretical and computational chemistry. Before joining the faculty at Michigan State, Dr. Wilson was the director of the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation from 2016 to 2018.
Study Finds a Gender Gap in Work Interruptions for Employees Working at Home Due to the Pandemic
The researchers found that even when both partners worked from home, the woman reported more demands related to childcare and household tasks. Women reported more interruptions than men did prior to the pandemic, but this difference has only increased. Women also noted more frequent interruptions from co-workers and supervisors while working from home than did men.
Rebecca Simmons Wins the Entomological Society of America’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching
An entomologist by training, Dr. Simmons has employed her insect expertise in teaching a range of biology courses at the University of North Dakota – including evolution – for the past 17 years. She has been a member of the Entomological Society of America for 25 years.
In Memoriam: Luz María Orozco y Aragón, 1933-2021
A native of Mexico City, Dr. Orozco was the daughter of a hydraulic engineer and a medical doctor. She came to the United States to pursue higher education to join the Congregation of the Humility of Mary in Davenport Iowa. She then taught at the now-closed Marycrest College.
Rebecca Blank Will Be the First Woman to Serve as President of Northwestern University
Dr. Blank became chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013. An internationally renowned economist, Dr. Blank is a well-known researcher on poverty and the low-income labor market and has served as an economics expert in three presidential administrations.
Universities Announce the Appointment of Six Women to Dean Positions
The six women appointed to dean positions are Nell Jessup Newton at the University of Miami School of Law, Mira Lowe at Florida A&M University, Megan Walsh at St. Bonaventure University in Allegany, New York, Eileen G. Collins at the University of Illinois Chicago, Sarah Szanton at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Catherine R. Squires at the University of Minnesota.
University of Minnesota Research Finds Eating Disorders Affect Women in All Socioeconomic Groups
Many people have the impression that eating disorders mainly affect White girls and women from middle and high-income families. But new research from scholars at the University of Minnesota finds that binge eating and use of unhealthy weight control behaviors are prevalent among young people from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds.
Study Examines How Religion Impacts the Gender Pay Gap in the United States and Worldwide
A study by Traci Sitzmann, a professor of management at the University of Colorado Denver and Elizabeth Campbell an assistant professor in the School of Management at the University of Minnesota, finds that religion may be a significant factor in the worldwide gender pay gap. They also found that the wage gap is lower in the more secular states in the U.S.
Four Women Who Are Taking on New Administrative Duties in Higher Education
The four women in new administrative potions are Karen Diver at the University of Minnesota, Victoria K. Holt at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, Jennifer Leon at Elms College in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and Roberta Page at Slippery Rock Univerity in Pennsylvania.
Lynn Priddy Is the New President of Claremont Lincoln University in California
Dr. Priddy has served on the university’s board of directors for the past two years. She was the interim vice president of academic affairs for the institution from February 2019 to December 2020. Earlier, Dr. Priddy served as provost at National American University, a private for-profit online university headquartered in Rapid City, South Dakota.
In Memoriam: Jean Harmon Langenheim, 1925-2021
Professor Langenheim was a plant ecologist and leading authority on amber and plant resins. Her investigations included fieldwork on five continents. A woman of many “firsts”, Dr. Lanenheim taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz from 1966 to 1994.
Elena Litchman Recognized by the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography
Elena Litchman is a professor of aquatic ecology at Michigan State University. She joined the faculty at Michigan State in 2005. Dr. Litchman is perhaps best known for her seminal work developing a trait-based approach for the study of plankton ecology.
Two Women Win the James McKeen Cattell Fellow Award From the Association for Psychological Science
The award is given to psychology’s most accomplished and respected scientists whose research addresses critical societal problems. Alison Gopnik of the University of California, Berkeley, and Megan Gunnar of the University of Minnesota are two of this year’s three winners.
Five Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships
The five women named to endowed chairs are Maureen Kohi at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Sheara Williams Jennings at the University of Houston, Karla Klein Murdock at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, Lauren Barron at Baylor University in texas, and Andrea Westby at the University of Minnesota Medical School.
DoVeanna Fulton Is the New Provost at Norfolk State University in Virginia
For the past eight years, Dr. Fulton has served as dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of history, humanities, and languages at the University of Houston–Downtown. Earlier, she taught at the University of Alabama.
