Breaking News
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Guillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri Will Be the Next Leader of the Imperial Valley Campus of San Diego State University
Aug. 3, 2022 - Dr. Núñez-Mchiri, a native of Calexico, California, has been serving as an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso. She began as a visiting assistant professor at UTEP, where she eventually gained tenure and became director of Women’s and Gender Studies. -
Lisa Diamond Has Been Chosen to Lead the International Academy of Sex Research
Aug. 3, 2022 - Lisa Diamond is a distinguished professor of developmental psychology, health psychology, and gender studies at the University of Utah. She has taught at the university since 1999. Her research focuses on sexuality, gender and intimate relationships, and their implications for health and well-being over the life course. -
Rachel Rebouché Selected to Lead the Beasley School of Law at Temple University in Philadelphia
Aug. 3, 2022 - One of the nation’s leading reproductive law scholars and an expert in family law and health law, Professor Rebouché previously served as the law school’s associate dean for research before taking on the role of interim dean in August 2021. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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A Check-Up on the Progress of Women Faculty in Academic Medicine
Aug. 3, 2022 - A new study by scholars at six medical schools found that n 1966, women made up 6.4 percent of tenured faculty in academic medicine. By 2019, women were 25.8 percent of all tenured faculty. By plotting recent progress, the authors conclude that achieving gender parity in some ranks will take 40 years. -
There Is a Large Gender Gap in Study Subjects in Psychiatry and Neuroscience Research
Aug. 3, 2022 - A new study led by researchers at the Unversity of British Columbia examined nearly 3,2000 academic papers in six journals published between 2009 and 2019. They found that only 19 percent of papers in the sample reported using an optimal design for discovery of possible sex differences, and only 5 percent of the papers reported studies that analyzed sex as -
Report Finds Limited Progress in Closing the Gender Gap in Leadership Positions in K-12 Education
Aug. 3, 2022 - According to the American Superintendent 2020 Decennial Study, 26.7 percent of district superintendents across the country were women. Today in Utah, 12.2 percent (5 of 41) of superintendents are women, a number that remains unchanged since 2017. Women make up just 29 percent of all high school principals. - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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New Assignments in Higher Education for Seven Women Faculty Members
Aug. 5, 2022 - Taking on new duties are Pearl Dowe at Emory University in Atlanta, Suzanne M. Darais at the University of Utah, Sarah Kenehan at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, Stephanie Ricker Schulte at the University of Arkansas, Chariklia Sotiriou-Leventis at the Missouri University of Science and Technology, Chandice Haste-Jackson at Syracuse University in New York, and Miriam Mara at Arizona -
State Universities Announce the Appointments of Six Women to Dean Positions
Aug. 4, 2022 - The six women appointed deans are Beth Mayer-Davis at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Leslee Battle at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, Margaret A. Amstutz at the University of Georgia, Paula Montgomery at the University of Louisiana Lafayette, Amy Ellen Schwartz at the University of Delaware, and Jenna Hyatt at Washington State University. -
A Dozen Women Who Are Taking on New Administrative Duties at Universities
Aug. 4, 2022 - 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. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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University of Maine’s Joyce Longcore Honored by the Mycological Society of America
Aug. 4, 2022 - Dr. Longcore has spent decades studying various species of microscopic, aquatic fungi from a group called Chytridiomycota, also known as chytrids. Among her many accomplishments. Dr. Loncore was responsible for discovering a pathogen that has caused widespread amphibian die-offs worldwide. -
Jessica Fintzen Awarded the Whitehead Prize From the London Mathematical Society
Aug. 4, 2022 - Dr. Fintzen, an assistant professor of mathematics at Duke University, was honored for her groundbreaking work in the so-called Langlands program, which connects two areas of mathematics: number theory (the study of integers and prime numbers) and representation theory, which involves studying complex objects by representing them with simpler objects like matrices. -
Florida State University Dance Professor Wins the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize
Aug. 4, 2022 - Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, the Lawton and Nancy Smith Fichter Professor in the College of Fine Arts at Florida State University, has been awarded the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize — one of the most prestigious awards in the American arts. Professor Zollar, a MacArthur Fellow, will receive a cash award of approximately $250,000. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Pathology Department Creates New Women’s Health Division [8.5.2022]
The primary goals for the division are to aid in recruiting talented individuals to UAB to focus on women’s health, to work with UAB Medicine to enhance diagnostic and molecular testing in areas impacting women’s health, and to build a research portfolio in these areas.
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Six Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Named Professorships at the University of Rochester [8.4.2022]
The University of Rochester in New York has announced the appointment of 134 scholars to named professorships. Six of these appointments went to women: Natalya Antonova, Danielle Benoit, Gretchen Helmke, Lisa Kahn, M. Patricia Rivera, and Sharon Willis.
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Four Women in Higher Education Who Are Taking on New Roles as Diversity Officers [8.4.2022]
The four women who have been appointed to administrative roles relating to diversity are Rochelle D. Smith at Saint Louis University in Missouri, Jane Irungu at Utah State University, Brianna Williams at Norfolk State University in Virginia, and Alaina Macaulay at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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In Memoriam: Helen Rose Dawson, 1927-2022 [8.3.2022]
Helen Rose Dawson was dean and vice president of what is now Stevenson Unversity in Maryland. She joined the educational institution in 1965 and retired in 1999.
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [8.2.2022]
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [8.2.2022]
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.
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Oklahoma State University Recently Held Its Inaugural Cattlewoman’s Boot Camp [8.1.2022]
The three-day event aimed to create an informative and engaging learning experience for female producers covering various methods on how to manage the production, financial, and market risks when operating a beef cow/calf operation.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [8.1.2022]
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
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Cedar Crest College Offers a New MBA Program With a Focus on Women’s Leadership [7.29.2022]
The new program at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, will prepare students to navigate gender-related challenges in the workplace. Courses will address systematic challenges to gender equity in the workplace, including wage gaps, broken advancement paths, assertiveness, representation, and more.
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Six Women in Higher Education Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions [7.28.2022]
The new deans are Amy Friedman Wilson at the Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions in Omaha, Celeste M. Watkins-Hayes at the University of Michigan, Christina Economos at Tufts University in Boston, T. Camille Martin-Thomsen at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Vrushali Bokil at Oregon State University, and Mary M. White at South Carolina State University.
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Emily Brodsky Is the Winner of the 2022 Nemmers Prize in Earth Sciences [7.28.2022]
Emily Brodsky, professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz, for her “fundamental, transdisciplinary contributions to understanding the physics of earthquake networks at all scales.” The prize includes a $200,000 award.
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Eight Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments [7.28.2022]
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.
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Tulane University’s Jesmyn Ward to Receive the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction [7.28.2022]
Jesmyn Ward, a professor of creative writing in the School of Liberal Arts at Tulane University in New Orleans, has been announced as the recipient of the 2022 Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction. At 45, Professor Ward will be the youngest person to receive the library’s fiction award. Professor Ward is one of only six writers to receive the National Book Award more than once and the only woman to do so.
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Thirteen Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Positions in Higher Education [7.28.2022]
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.
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Elizabeth Ananat and Anna Gassman-Pines Honored for Their Study on the Impact of Work Schedule Unpredictability [7.28.2022]
Elizabeth Ananat, Mallya Professor of Women and Economics at Barnard College in New York City and Anna Gassman-Pines, the WLF Bass Connections Associate Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, received the 2022 Rosabeth Moss Kanter Award for Excellence in Work-Family Research from the Center for Families at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.
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Universities Announced the Appointment of Four Women to Endowed Professorships [7.28.2022]
The four women appointed to endowed faculty posts are Erika Lee at Harvard University, Aili Mari Tripp at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chloe E. Bird at the Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, and Laura Guerrero at Arizona State University.
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New EEOC Report Examines the Status of Women in Federal Government STEM Jobs [7.27.2022]
Overall, women accounted for 29.3 percent of STEM federal workers. Women held less than 6 percent of all positions relating to mathematics. A total of 16,454 women served in STEM leadership roles, compared to 47,167 men.
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Sian Leah Beilock Will Be the First Woman to Serve as President of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire [7.27.2022]
Since July 2017, Dr. Beilock has been serving as the eighth president of Barnard College in New York City. Earlier, she had been serving as executive vice provost at the University of Chicago. She also was the Stella W. Rowley Professor in the department of psychology. Professor Beilock joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 2005.
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Study Finds Women Are Less Likely to Win Academic Awards Named After Men Than Other Academic Awards [7.27.2022]
A new study by researchers at the University of Birmingham in England finds that women received 15 percent of the total number of awards given out. But they were only 12 percent of the winners of awards that were named after men. Men won a majority of the awards named after women.
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Mindy Benson Is the First Woman President of Southern Utah University in Cedar City [7.27.2022]
Before assuming the role of interim president last year, Benson served as vice president of alumni and community relations at Southern Utah University for eight years. Earlier, she served as executive director of alumni relations and special events and director of student activities at the university.
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Women Who Identify as Feminists – and Their Daughters – Tend to Have More Positive Views of Their Body Image [7.27.2022]
A new study, led by Analisa Arroyo, an associate professor of communications studies in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the Univerity of Georgia, finds that mothers, who identify as feminists, as well as their daughters, felt more positively about their bodies and less shame about how their bodies look than those who don’t ascribe to feminist ideals.
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Two Universities Announce the Appointments of Women to Provost Positions [7.27.2022]
Janice L. Nerger, who has served as dean of the College of Natural Sciences at Colorado State University for the past 13 years, was named interim provost at university. Lisa Long, who was acting president of Talladega College in Alabama, was appointed provost and vice president for academic affairs at Allen University in Columbia, South Carolina.
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In Memoriam: Judith Ann Schiff, 1937-2022 [7.27.2022]
Judith Schiff, the chief research archivist at Yale University Library, was one of the longest serving members of the Yale staff with a career spanning more than 60 years.
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