Breaking News
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Mary Dana Hinton Appointed President of Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia
Feb. 19, 2020 - Since 2014, Dr. Hinton has served as president of the Collge of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, Minnesota. Before becoming president at the College of St. Benedict, Dr. Hinton was vice president for academic affairs at Mount Saint Mary College in Newburgh, New York. -
Columbia College in South Carolina to Admit Men to Residential Programs for the First Time
Feb. 19, 2020 - Columbia College in Columbia South Carolina has announced that or the first time in the school’s 166-year history, it will allow men to enroll as residential students. However, the college states that it hopes to offer two tracks, one for just women and one that will be co-educational. -
Katie Conboy Selected to Be the Next President of St. Mary’s College in Indiana
Feb. 19, 2020 - Since 2013, Dr. Conboy has served as provost and senior vice president at what is now Simmons University in Boston. Earlier, she was a professor of English literature and later provost at Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts. She will become president of st. Mary's College on June 1. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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Gender Equity in the Legal Profession: Still a Long Way to Go
Feb. 19, 2020 - Women now make up a majority of the enrollments and degree earners at American law schools. But they are only 38 percent of the nation's attorneys, less than 40 percent of the nation's judges, and only 35 percent of the deans at American law schools. -
Study Finds Hollywood Does Not Offer Adequate Production and Marketing Support for Films Starring Women
Feb. 19, 2020 - Authors Stacy Smith and Rene Weber found that when controlling for a set of production, distribution, and exhibition factors, films with female lead or co-lead characters do not perform significantly different than those with male lead characters domestically and internationally. -
International Study Finds Large Scale Dissatisfaction in Body-Image Among Women
Feb. 19, 2020 - The authors note that "greater breast size dissatisfaction was associated with poorer breast awareness, as indexed through lower breast self-examination frequency and lower confidence in detecting breast change. Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in women worldwide and poor survival rates are reliably associated with poorer breast - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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Nine Women Scholars Who Have Been Given New Assignments or Duties in Higher Education
Feb. 21, 2020 - Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties. -
Laetitia La Follette Is the New President of the Archaeological Institute of America
Feb. 20, 2020 - Laetitia La Follette is an associate professor and chair of the department of history of art and architecture at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She has taught at the university since 1987. Dr. La Follette specializes in the physical culture of the ancient Mediterranean and the protection of cultural -
Three Women Appointed to Dean Positions at Major Universities
Feb. 20, 2020 - Annmarie Caño will be the next dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. Kathrin Engisch has been named interim dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, and Sonja S. Watson was appointed dean of the - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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Three Women Scholars From Flagship State Universites to Receive Franklin Institute Awards
Feb. 20, 2020 - The honorees are Barbra Partee, a professor emerita of linguistics and philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Monica G. Turner, the Eugene P. Odum Professor of Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Margaret M. Murnane, a Distinguished Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. -
National Science Foundation to Name an Astronomical Observatory in Chile for Vera Rubin
Feb. 20, 2020 - Vera Rubin, a pioneering astrophysicist who confirmed the existence of black matter in the universe and taught at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., will be recognized by having the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope facility in Chile named in her honor. -
Princeton University’s Bonnie Bassler to Be Honored With the $500,000 Gruber Genetics Prize for 2020
Feb. 20, 2020 - Bonnie L. Bassler is the Squibb Professor in Molecular Biology and chair of the department of molecular biology at Princeton University in New Jersey. She will be honored on April 23 at the Allied Genetics Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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Four Women Scholars Who Are Leaving Their University Posts [2.24.2020]
Stepping down from their positions are Patricia M. Lampkin at the University of Virginia, Karen P. DePauw at Virginia Tech, Endia Beal at Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina, and Jeanne H. Balsam at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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Breastfeeding Mothers Not Allowed to Attend Women’s Conference at Brigham Young University [2.24.2020]
The annual Women’s Conference on the campus of Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, is being held on April 30-May 1. A notice on the conference’s webpage states that: “Infants and young children, including nursing infants, cannot be accommodated.”
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University of Hawai’i Releases Results of Student Survey on Sexual Misconduct [2.21.2020]
The survey reported an uptick in reported incidents of sexual assault and misconduct from a similar survey conducted two years ago. But the university stated that “this was expected with greater awareness of these issues on UH campuses and in the national conversation with the #MeToo movement.”
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New Administrative Appointments for Eight Women at American Universities [2.20.2020]
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
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Chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden Announces She Is Stepping Down on July 1 [2.19.2020]
Phoebe A. Haddon became the chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden in July 2014. From 2009 to 2014, Haddon was dean of the Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland. Chancellor Haddon will remain at the university as a professor of law.
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In Memoriam: Elizabeth Ann Strain, 1928-2019 [2.19.2020]
After graduating from Boston University, Betty Strain joined the staff at Boston College in 1952 as an assistant to Rev. Charles F. Donovan, who was the founding dean of the School of Education. She later served as university registrar.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [2.18.2020]
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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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [2.18.2020]
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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Three Women Scholars at Virginia Tech Granted Emerita Status [2.17.2020]
Helene Renard was named associate professor of interior design emerita. Ruth Grene is professor of plant science emertia in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Jill Kiecolt was named professor of sociology emerita in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences.
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In Memoriam: Betty Lentz Siegal, 1931-2020 [2.17.2020]
Betty Siegel was president emeritus of Kennesaw State University in Georgia and the first woman to serve as a campus president for an institution in the University System of Georgia.She served as president of what is now Kennesaw State University from 1981 to 2006.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [2.17.2020]
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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Stephens College in Missouri Is Starting a Three-Year Accelerated Nursing Degree Program [2.14.2020]
Stephens College, an educational institution for women in Columbia Missouri, has announced that it will establish a nursing program in collaboration with the Boone Hospital Center. The college hopes to enroll about 20 students in the program this fall.
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In Memoriam: Cynthia Lou Koziol, 1951-2020 [2.14.2020]
Cynthia Koziol worked at Virginia Tech for 35 years. As the only full-time academic advisor in the department of psychology, she would work at any given time with 800 undergraduate majors.
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Viviana Gradinaru of Caltech Earns the Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science [2.13.2020]
Dr. Gradinaru is a professor of neuroscience and biomedical engineering and director of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience at the California Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on deep brain stimulation procedures for treating human neurodegenerative disorders.
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New Assignments for Nine Women Scholars at Colleges and Universities [2.13.2020]
Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties.
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New Award Will Honor North American Women’s Fiction [2.13.2020]
The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, which will be awarded for the first time in 2022, will only be open to Canadian and American women and non-binary individuals. The new award will include a cash prize of 150,000 Canadian dollars. Shields won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1995 and taught at the University of Manitoba.
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A Trio of Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions at Universities [2.13.2020]
Nicoleta Bugnariu was appointed dean of the new School of Health Sciences at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. Dori Borjesson will be the next dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Washington State University and Patricia J. Culligan was named dean of the College of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.
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University of Colorado’s Kristi Anseth to Receive the For Women in Science Award for North America [2.13.2020]
The L’Oréal Foundation and UNESCO have announced the winners of the 22nd For Women in Science Awards, which honor five exceptional women scientists from different regions of the world. Each of the five laureates will receive 100,000 euros at a ceremony on March 12 at UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
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Colleges and Universities That Have Appointed 10 Women to New Administrative Positions [2.13.2020]
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
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Male College Students Ask for and Receive Favorable Grade Changes More Often Than Their Women Peers [2.12.2020]
A new working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research reports that male college students are more likely that their woman peers to seek a grade change from their instructors. And the paper finds that men are more successful in getting their grades changed than women.
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Lynn Perry Wooten Will Be the Ninth President of Simmons University in Boston [2.12.2020]
Most recently, Dr. Wooten has been serving as the David J. Nolan Dean and Professor of Management and Organizations at Cornell University’s Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Prior to her position at Cornell, Dr. Wooten served on the faculty at the University of Michigan for nearly two decades.
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Is the Choice of College Major a Significant Factor in the Gender Wage Gap Later in Life? [2.12.2020]
A working paper from the Becker Friedman Institute authored by researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Chicago, finds that women today still choose college majors associated with lower potential wages than men.
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