Nine Women Appointed to Endowed Faculty Positions at Cornell University

Twenty-three faculty members in the College of Arts & Sciences at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, were recently honored with endowed professorships. Nine of the 23 appointments to endowed faculty positions went to women.

First-Year Women Students at the Nation’s Leading Liberal Arts Colleges

This is the first time in the history of our survey that women made up a majority of entering students at all responding, high-ranking liberal arts institutions.

First-Year Women Students at the Nation’s Leading Research Universities

Of the 27 high-ranking research universities for which we have data, women were the majority of the entering students at 22 schools. This is up from 21 a year ago and 18 two years ago.

Five Women Win Mitchell Scholarships for Graduate Study in Ireland

The US-Ireland Alliance has announced the 12 members of the George J. Mitchell Scholar Class of 2024. This year, five of the 12 Mitchell Scholars are women.

The Highest-Ranked Women Scientists in the United States

More than 166,880 scientist profiles across 24 research disciplines were examined with several indicators and metrics reviewed in order to consider each scientist’s inclusion in the ranking.

Sixteen Women Are Among the 32 Rhodes Scholars From the United States

The Rhodes Trust has announced the latest cohort of 32 Rhodes Scholars selected in 16 districts across the United States. Sixteen members of this year’s class are women.

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  • Women Make Slight Gains in Closing the Income Gap With Men

    Women Make Slight Gains in Closing the Income Gap With Men

    Sep. 27, 2023 - the median income of households headed by a single woman in the United States in 2022 was $56,030. For households headed by a single man in 2022, the median income figure was $73,630. For single women living alone, the median income in 2022 was $40,200. For single men living alone, the median income was $51,930.
  • There Is a Significant Disparity in the Number of Unmarried Men and Women in the United States

    There Is a Significant Disparity in the Number of Unmarried Men and Women in the United States

    Sep. 27, 2023 - A new Census Bureau study finds that in 2019 there were 89.8 unmarried men for every 100 unmarried women in the United States. The unmarried population includes people age 18 and over who were never married, widowed or divorced, regardless of their sexual orientation.
  • Women Judges Are Cited Less Often Than Their Male Peers

    Women Judges Are Cited Less Often Than Their Male Peers

    Sep. 27, 2023 - After analyzing out-of-circuit citations to a sample of more than 2,000 published federal appellate decisions from 2009 to 2016, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the University of Louisville, the University of Georgia, and Brigham Young University in Utah found that majority opinions written by female judges receive significantly fewer subsequent citations from other courts than those
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  • Universities Announces New Assignments for Seven Women Faculty Members

    Universities Announces New Assignments for Seven Women Faculty Members

    Sep. 28, 2023 - Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
  • A Quartet of Women Who Have Been Named Deans at Colleges and Universities

    A Quartet of Women Who Have Been Named Deans at Colleges and Universities

    Sep. 28, 2023 - Kim Boyd was named dean of library services at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, and Jennifer Mueller-Phillips has been named interim dean of the College of Business at Auburn University in Alabama. Crystal Shannon has been named dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Indiana University Northwest and Patsy Collins Bandes is the new dean for the
  • Three Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships

    Three Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships

    Sep. 28, 2023 - Damara Goff Paris was named the John E. King Endowed Professor at Emporia State University in Kansas. Mara Rudman has been appointed the James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and Christine Larson has been named as the inaugural holder of the Kemp Endowed Professorship in Honors Mathematics at South Dakota State
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  • Two Women Rsearchers Awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

    Two Women Rsearchers Awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

    Sep. 28, 2023 - The Breakthrough Prize – popularly known as the “Oscars of Science” – was created to celebrate the wonders of our scientific age. This year two women are among the winners in the life sciences: Sabine Hadida, senior vice president of Vetex Pharmaceuticals in San Diego and Ellen Sidransky of the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of
  • Biophysics Society Recognizes the Research of Vanderbilt University's Nancy Carrasco

    Biophysics Society Recognizes the Research of Vanderbilt University’s Nancy Carrasco

    Sep. 28, 2023 - Nancy Carrasco, Joe C. Davis Chair in Biomedical Science and chair of the department of molecular physiology and biophysics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, is being honored for work to define and characterize the sodium/iodide transporter that is essential for synthesizing thyroid hormone and then translating these findings into important medical applications.
  • Lisa Powell of Sweet Briar College Honored by the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences

    Lisa Powell of Sweet Briar College Honored by the Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences

    Sep. 28, 2023 - At Sweet Briar College, associate professor Lisa Powell serves as head of the STEM Division Head and director of the Center for Human and Environmental Sustainability. She also leads the academic and community-focused aspects of the college’s agricultural areas, including the greenhouse, apiary, vineyard, garden, and forests.
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  • In Memoriam: Sheila Susan Moriber Katz, 1943-2023

    In Memoriam: Sheila Susan Moriber Katz, 1943-2023 [9.29.2023]

    Sheila Moriber Katz was a professor and former dean of Hahnemann University School of Medicine in Philadelphia. As a young faculty member at the medicl school, she discovered the bacteria that causes Legionnaire’s disease,

  • Six Women Who Have Been Appointed to University Administrative Positions

    Six Women Who Have Been Appointed to University Administrative Positions [9.28.2023]

    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.

  • New Leadership for Harvard University Health

    New Leadership for Harvard University Health [9.28.2023]

    Harvard University Health Services recently announced two additions to its senior leadership team. Kathy G. Niknejad will serve as chief medical officer and physician-in-chief, and Kimberly Eng will serve as deputy executive director and chief administrative officer.

  • Girl Scout Leader Agenia Walker Clark Will Be the Next President of Fisk University in Nashville

    Girl Scout Leader Agenia Walker Clark Will Be the Next President of Fisk University in Nashville [9.27.2023]

    For the past 19 years, Dr. Clark has been CEO of the Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee. Prior to the Girl Scouts, Dr. Clark was the vice president of human resources for the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation, senior director of human resources at Vanderbilt University, and directed human resources for Canadian telecommunications provider Nortel Networks.

  • In Memoriam: Carol Clancey Harter, 1941-2023

    In Memoriam: Carol Clancey Harter, 1941-2023 [9.27.2023]

    After serving on the faculty and later as vice president and dean of students at Ohio University, Dr. Harter was named president of the State University of New York at Geneseo. She became the first woman president of UNLV in 1995 and served in that role for 11 years.

  • Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars

    Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [9.26.2023]

    Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.

  • Online Articles of Interest to WIA<em>Report</em> Readers

    Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [9.26.2023]

    Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.

  • National Bureau of Economic Research Creates New Working Group on Gender in the Economy

    National Bureau of Economic Research Creates New Working Group on Gender in the Economy [9.25.2023]

    The Working Group will take a broad approach to analyzing gender-related disparities in economic outcomes, and in studying how limited access to education, labor market opportunities, formal financial services, along with disempowering social norms and gender-biased laws and institutions, can create them.

  • In Memoriam: Carol Robles-Román, 1962-2023

    In Memoriam: Carol Robles-Román, 1962-2023 [9.22.2023]

    One of the two longest-serving deputy mayors in the history of the city of New York, Robles-Román served as general counsel to Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg during his 12 years in office. Robles-Román also served on the City University of New York board of trustees for 14 years and was most recently general counsel and dean of the faculty at Hunter College in New York City.

  • Eleven Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Roles in Higher Education

    Eleven Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Roles in Higher Education [9.22.2023]

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

  • Three Women Who Have Been Selected to Serve as Deans

    Three Women Who Have Been Selected to Serve as Deans [9.21.2023]

    Asha Anumolu was appointed dean of nursing and allied healthcare at Florence-Darlington Technical College in South Carolina. Charla Miertschin is the new dean of the College of Science and Engineering at Abilene Christian University in Texas and Katie Kraushaar was named dean of library and information services at Quincy University in Illinois.

  • Yale's Cécile Fromont Received the 2023 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize

    Yale’s Cécile Fromont Received the 2023 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize [9.21.2023]

    Dr. Fromont, a professor of the history of art at Yale. was born and raised in Martinique. Her ancestors came to the Caribbean island from Africa, South Asia, and Burgundy. She joined the Yale faculty in 2018 after teaching for eight years at the University of Chicago. Her writing and teaching focus on the visual, material, and religious culture of Africa and Latin America.

  • Cornell University Has Hired Three Women to Its Computer Science Faculty

    Cornell University Has Hired Three Women to Its Computer Science Faculty [9.21.2023]

    The Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York has announced the hiring of 11 new faculty members. Three of the new faculty members are women: Tanya Goyal, Kristina Monakhova, and Jennifer Sun.

  • Jacqueline Barton Selected to Receive the Welch Award in Chemistry

    Jacqueline Barton Selected to Receive the Welch Award in Chemistry [9.21.2023]

    Jacqueline K. Barton, the John G. Kirkwood and Arthur A. Noyes Professor of Chemistry, Emerita at the California Institute of Technology, has received the 2023 Welch Award in Chemistry. The award is meant to “encourage and recognize basic chemical research for the benefit of mankind,” according to the Robert A. Welch Foundation, which presents the award.

  • Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointment of Six Women to Administrative Posts

    Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointment of Six Women to Administrative Posts [9.21.2023]

    Taking on new administrative duties are Julie Heath Indiana University, Kelly McMurray at the University of the District of Columbia, Penny Mansell at the Mississippi University for Women, Adrienne Cowan Edney at Talladega College in Alabama, Kristie Bowers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and Rachel Nosowsky at the University of California, San Francisco.

  • Rice University Psychologist Michelle Hebl Wins Advancing Women in Leadership Award

    Rice University Psychologist Michelle Hebl Wins Advancing Women in Leadership Award [9.21.2023]

    Michelle “Mikki” Hebl, the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Professor of Psychological Sciences and professor in the Jones Graduate School of Business ar Rice University in Houston, Texas, is the 2023 recipient of the Advancing Women in Leadership Award from the Academy of Management.

  • Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships

    Four Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships [9.21.2023]

    The four women named to endowed professorships are Patricia Bricker at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina, Cynthia Reinhart-King at Rice University in Houston, Sonia Sultan at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, and Margot Pollans at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in White Plains, New York.

  • The Persisting Gender Gap in Poverty Rates in the United States

    The Persisting Gender Gap in Poverty Rates in the United States [9.20.2023]

    Overall, there were more than 20 million American women and girls who were living below the poverty level in 2022. In 2022, 12.5 percent of all women and girls in the United States lived in poverty compared to 10.5 percent of men.

  • Mississippi State University Scholar Named Editor-in-Chief of the <em>Journal of Applied Remote Sensing</em>

    Mississippi State University Scholar Named Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Applied Remote Sensing [9.20.2023]

    Qian “Jenny” Du is the Bobby Shackouls Professor at Mississippi State University. Before joining the faculty at Mississippi State in 2004, Dr. Du was an assistant professor in the department of electrical engineering and computer science at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, from 2000 to 2004.

  • Study Finds Women Ask for Raises and Promotions At Similar or Higher Rates Than Men

    Study Finds Women Ask for Raises and Promotions At Similar or Higher Rates Than Men [9.20.2023]

    A new study by women scholars at the University of California, Berkeley and Vanderbilt University in Nashville debunks the gender pay gap myth that “women don’t ask for raises.” The study found that women attempt salary negotiations as much or more than men do, but are more likely to be rejected.

  • Temple University President JoAnne Epps Dies Suddenly at Campus Service

    Temple University President JoAnne Epps Dies Suddenly at Campus Service [9.20.2023]

    JoAnne A. Epps, acting president of Temple University in Philadelphia, collapsed on stage during a celebration of life ceremony for Charles L. Blockson on September 19, where she was scheduled to speak. She was taken from the stage to Temple University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. President Epps was 72 years old

  • Study Examines Data on Women's Decisions on Changing Their Last Names After Marriage

    Study Examines Data on Women’s Decisions on Changing Their Last Names After Marriage [9.20.2023]

    A new study from the Pew Research Center finds that today in America nearly eight of every 10 women who get married take their husband’s last name. But 26 percent of married women with a postgraduate degree kept their last name compared with 13 percent of those with a bachelor’s degree.

  • Arkansas Tech President Robin Bowen Was Fired While She Was on Medical Leave

    Arkansas Tech President Robin Bowen Was Fired While She Was on Medical Leave [9.20.2023]

    Dr. Bowen became the twelfth president of Arkansas Tech University in Russellville in July 2014. She was not only the institution’s first woman president but also was the first woman to lead any state-operated four-year university in the state of Arkansas.

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