The University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine has partnered with Norvatis to expand access to early breast cancer detection among women from underserved communities in Los Angeles County. In addition to providing direct care, the partnership will focus on leveraging data science to identify gaps in healthcare access and develop solutions.

The three women scholars named to endowed professorships at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, are Nadia Ayoub in biology, Aliaa Bassiouny in finance, and Molly Michelmore in history.

Dr. Benningfield taught in Virginia Tech's doctoral program in marriage and family therapy for nearly a decade. She was a leader in the broader field of counseling and was twice elected president of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

The women faculty appointed to new roles are Jennifer Cochran at Stanford University, Sekyung Jang at the University of Cincinnati, Rebecca Puhl at the University of Connecticut, Cristina Bodea at Michigan State University, Paula Lemons at the University of Georgia, Allison Rice at the University of Notre Dame, Betsy Sinclair at Washington University, and Angela Hosek at Ohio University.

The honorees are Rachael Chanin at Stanford University, Amy C. Fan at the University of Caliofornia, San Francisco, Simone Park at the University of Pennsylvania, Carolina Rodriguez Tirado at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx, New York, and Madeline Rollins at the University of Chicago.

The new deans are Angela Pool-Funai at the University of Wyoming, Catherine Bradshaw at Johns Hopkins University, Katherine Eggert at the University of Colorado Boulder, Marcia Weiss at Thomas Jefferson University, Yael Grushka-Cockayne at the University of Virginia, Azadeh Keivani at Lehman College, and Julie Amador at the University of Idaho.

The women who have recently received awards for their new books are Julia Elliott of the University of South Carolina, Min Kyung Lee of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Anne E. Marshall at Mississippi State University.

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.

Dr. Currie, an endowed professor at Yale University, is known as a pioneer in the economics of child development. Her work has significant advanced the understanding of how family, social, environmental, and healthcare factors impact children's longterm outcomes.

The appointments are Diane Simeone at the University of California, San Diego, Mimi Davies Wroten at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, Veena Shankaran at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center in Seattle, Hong Wang at New York University, and Mary Beth Klinger at the College of Southern Maryland.

At the time of her passing, Dr. Okoro was in her eleventh year of teaching at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte School of Nursing. Her scholarship centered on chronic illness management and caregiver support.

Dr. Mast, the first woman to serve as dean of Fordham University's Fordham College at Rose Hill, is slated to become the first woman president of Seattle University in Washington on September 1.