Breaking News
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National Science Foundation’s Joan Ferrini-Mundy to Lead the University of Maine
Apr. 18, 2018 - Joan Ferrini-Mundy is the chief operating officer of the National Science Foundation. Before joining the National Science Foundation in 2007, Dr. Ferrini-Munday was a professor of mathematics and teacher education for 12 years at Michigan State University. Earlier, she taught for 16 years at the University of New Hampshire. -
The Next President of Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts
Apr. 18, 2018 - Dr. Nelson is currently the director of the Sustainability Institute and deputy chief Sustainability Officer at the University of New Hampshire. Before going to the University of New Hampshire, she served on the faculty at Tufts University in Massachusetts for 25 years. -
Janet Westpheling Elected President of the Society for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology
Apr. 18, 2018 - Dr. Westpheling is a professor of genetics in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia. Her research focuses on the genetic engineering of microorganisms to efficiently convert plants into biofuels. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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Do Women Face Discrimination From Examiners at the U.S. Patent Office?
Apr. 18, 2018 - Researchers at Yale University found that overall, women inventors’ patents were more likely to be rejected than those filed by teams of men. When rejected, women’s applications were 2.5 percent less likely to be appealed. When applications were granted, women’s patents often had more words added that reduced the scope -
The Gender Pay Gap Among Corporate CEOs No Longer Exists, University of Alabama Study Says
Apr. 18, 2018 - Using compensation data from Execucomp, the study covers all forms of compensation, including base pay and stock options, from large public firms in the United States from 1996 to 2014. The research team found no gender bias in the remuneration provided to male and female CEOs. -
When Is the Optimal Time For Programs to Encourage Girls to Consider STEM Fields?
Apr. 18, 2018 - A new study challenges the view that efforts to increase interest among girls into STEM fields should begin in elementary or middle school. The authors of a new University of Illinois study believe that such programs will be more effective in late adolescence. - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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Two Women Scholars Appointed to Lead Nursing Schools
Apr. 20, 2018 - Christine Kasper was appointed dean of the College of Nursing at the University of New Mexico and Melinda Granger Oberleitner was named dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. -
Five Women Scholars Taking on New Assignments at Major Universities
Apr. 19, 2018 - The women faculty members in new roles are Hui Cao at Yale University, Cynthia Feliciano at Washington University in St. Louis, Tayari Jones at Emory University in Atlanta, Jane Aiken at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Mary Beth Kirkham at Kansas State University. -
Six Women Appointed Distinguished Professors at the State University of New York
Apr. 19, 2018 - The State University of New York Board of Trustees recently approved the appointments of 15 faculty to the Distinguished Faculty Rank. Of the 15 faculty members appointed to the Distinguished Faculty Rank, six are women. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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Yale University Scholar to Receive the $275,000 Ho-Am Prize
Apr. 19, 2018 - Hee Oh, the Abraham Robinson Professor of Mathematics at Yale University has been selected to receive the 2018 Ho-Am Prize for Science from the Ho-Am Foundation in Seoul, South Korea. The award is given to a person of Korean heritage for outstanding accomplishments in science. -
Jennifer Higdon Awarded the $100,000 Nemmers Prize in Music Composition
Apr. 19, 2018 - Jennifer Higdon, who holds the Rock Chair in Composition at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, is the winner of the 2018 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition from the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. -
Tulane’s Jesmyn Ward to Receive the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Fiction
Apr. 19, 2018 - Jesmyn Ward, an associate professor of English at Tulane University in New Orleans, will receive the fiction award at the 83rd Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Award ceremony in Cleveland this September. She is the only woman to win two National Book Awards. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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Mount Holyoke College Launches a New Dual Degree Program With Swiss Institute [4.20.2018]
Mount Holyoke College, the selective liberal arts educational institution for women in South Hadley, Massachusetts, has announced the establishment of joint bachelor’s/master’s degree program in conjunction with the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Seven Women in Higher Education Taking on New Administrative Duties [4.19.2018]
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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Five Women Scholars at State Universities Honored With Prestigious Awards [4.19.2018]
The honorees are Gloria Billingsley at Jackson State University in Mississippi, Kristina Olson at the University of Washington, Sandra NcGeee at the University of Iowa, Janice Jackson at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Deborah J. Wiebe at the University of California, Merced.
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In Memoriam: Joan Braverman Pinck, 1929-2018 [4.18.2018]
Pinck was one of the first woman administrators at Harvard Business School, where she also taught a course on business writing. Later, she served as director of research administration and policy at Beth Israel Hospital, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [4.16.2018]
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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Harvard Has a Long Way to Go to Reach Gender Parity in Faculty Positions [4.16.2018]
Women make up just over one fifth of the tenured faculty at Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government. Women are less than one quarter of tenured faculty in Harvard Medical School and Harvard Law School.
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Mills College in Oakland to Launch New Bachelor’s Degree Completion Program [4.16.2018]
The program will allow working adults to complete their bachelor’s degree at night with some online and weekend classes. Mills College will offer students six degree completion majors to choose from including, business administration, English, ethnic studies, interdisciplinary studies, politics, economics, policy, and law, or sociology.
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All Four Finalists for Dean of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Georgia Are Women [4.16.2018]
The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy has announced a field of four finalists to serve as dean. All four finalists will visit campus by the end of the month for a series of interviews and public presentations. All four finalists are women.
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New Faculty Roles for Six Women in Academia [4.16.2018]
Appointed to new posts are Lisa Berreau at Utah State University, Alicia Graf Mack at the Julliard School, Meera Komarraju at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Terri Norton at Bucknell University, Katherine Hawkins at Old Dominion University, and Sheretta Butler-Barnes at Washington University in St. Louis.
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [4.16.2018]
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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In Memoriam: Nancy Ransom, 1929-2018 [4.13.2018]
Nancy Ransom was the inaugural director of the the Margaret Cuninggim Women’s Center at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. She led the center for nearly two decades and also taught courses in sociology and women’s studies at the university.
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Four Women Announce Their Retirements From High-Level University Posts [4.13.2018]
The four women who are stepping down are Mary Cronin at Rice University in Houston, Linda Hayden at Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, Sally Graves Machlis at the University of Idaho, and Elizabeth Creamer at Virginia Tech.
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College of William and Mary to Honor Its First Women Students [4.13.2018]
The marble plaque will contain the names of 24 women who enrolled at the college in 1918. At that time, the College of William and Mary became the first state-operated university in Virginia to admit women.
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Five Universities Appoint Women to Dean Positions [4.13.2018]
The women appointed to dean posts are Lena Hill at Washington and Lee University in Virginia, Sally Wallace at Georgia State University, Bridget Gorman at Rice University in Houston, Tarshia Stanley at St. Catherine University in Minnesota and Amanda Woodward at the University of Chicago.
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University of Massachusetts Scholar Wins the Russian National Award in Applied Economics [4.12.2018]
Ina Ganguli, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, has received the 2018 Russian National Award in Applied Economics. The award is given every two years for outstanding published papers on the Russian economy.
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Four Women Named to Endowed Chairs at Major Research Universities [4.12.2018]
The four women appointed to endowed chairs are Hyunsuk Shim at Emory University in Atlanta, Pamela L. Perrewé at Florida State University, Molly Wright Steenson at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and Laura Barraclough at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
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MIT’s Dina Katabi to Receive the $250,000 Prize in Computing From the Association of Computing Machinery [4.12.2018]
Dina Katabi, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be honored for her groundbreaking research in wireless and cellular systems with applications for health-monitoring and other technologies.
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Eight Women Who Have Been Appointed to New Administrative Posts at Universities [4.12.2018]
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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Yale School of Medicine Honors a Pioneering Woman Faculty Member [4.12.2018]
The Yale School of Medicine has announced the establishment of an endowed professorship to honor the late Carolyn Walsh Slayman. Dr. Slayman served on the faculty of the medical school for nearly a half century until her death in December 2016.
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Four Women Scholars Promoted to Senior Faculty Posts at Cedar Crest College [4.12.2018]
The four women appointed to either associate professor or full professor at Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, are Christine Lombardo-Zaun in business, Mae Ann Pasquale and Wendy Robb in nursing, and Martine Scannavino in nutrition.
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Men Are More Likely Than Women to Perceive They Are More Intelligent [4.11.2018]
The average man with a 3.3 GPA (the average GPA of students in the class) perceived that he was smarter than 66 percent of students in a physiology class at Arizona State University, whereas the average woman with a 3.3 GPA perceived that she was smarter than only 54 percent of the students in the class.
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Karrie Dixon Is the New Leader of Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina [4.11.2018]
Dr. Dixon has been a senior administrator for the University of North Carolina System since 2008. Most recently, she has served as vice president for academic and student affairs overseeing the 17 campuses of the university system.
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New Report Shows the Persisting Gender Gap in Faculty Pay at Colleges and Universities [4.11.2018]
The average salary for women full professors in the 2017-18 academic year is $100,917. For male full professors, the average salary is $106,820. The gender pay exists at all academic ranks but is smaller at the associate and assistant professor and instructor and lecturer ranks.
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