Breaking News
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Macey Edmondson to Lead the National Association of Law Student Affairs Professionals
Oct. 18, 2018 - Macey Edmondson is assistant dean for student affairs at the University of Mississippi School of Law. She will serve as president of the National Association of Law Student Affairs Professionals for the 2019-2020 academic year. -
Elizabeth Dooley Named Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Central Florida
Oct. 17, 2018 - Dr. Dooley has worked for the university since 2015 and most recently served as the interim provost and vice president for academic affairs. Before coming to the University of Central Florida, Dr. Dooley spent 25 years at West Virginia University. -
Elizabeth Elliott Has Been Selected to Lead the Educational Honor Society, Kappa Delta Pi
Oct. 17, 2018 - Elizabeth M. Elliott is a professor in the College of Education and director of the Family Resource Center at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Meyers. She has taught at Florida Gulf Coast University since 2001 and has been a member of Kappa Delta Pi since 1995. She will become - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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Study Finds Women Are Less Likely to Be Rewarded for Work-Place Innovations than Men
Oct. 18, 2018 - The researchers found that managers, no matter their gender, struggle with a "think innovation-think male" bias when conducting performance reviews. They found that women employees received better performance ratings when their levels of innovative work behaviors were low. -
Study Finds Women Are Much Less Likely to Ask Questions in Academic Seminars Than Men
Oct. 17, 2018 - According to a study conducted by resarchers at the University of Cambridge in England, women tended to rate factors such as not feeling clever enough, being nervous, worrying that they misunderstood the content, and being intimidated by the speaker as factors in deciding not to raise a question. -
The Persisting Gender Gap in Poverty Rates in the United States
Oct. 17, 2018 - Women are more likely to live in poverty than men in the United States. For women who are single heads of families, more than a quarter live in poverty. Obviously, these women have major disadvantages in access to higher education, a path that might provide them a way out of - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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Two Women Who Have Been Appointed to Positions as Deans in Texas
Oct. 18, 2018 - Toniette Haynes Robinson has been named dean of educational resources at North Lake College within the Dallas County Community College District and Elizabeth Merwin has been appointed dean of the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at the University of Texas at Arlington. -
New Posts for Ten Women in Higher Education Administration
Oct. 18, 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. -
Amherst College in Massachusetts Hires Seven New Women Assistant Professors
Oct. 17, 2018 - The new women assistant professors at Amherst College are Katharine Correia in statistics, Amy Coddington in music, Mona Oraby in law, jurisprudence and social thought, Karamatou Yacoubou Djima and Amalia Culiuc in mathematics, Kakina Debnam in economics, and Katerina Ragkousi in biology. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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Johns Hopkins University to Name a New Building After Henrietta Lacks
Oct. 18, 2018 - A new interdisciplinary building on Johns Hopkins University's East Baltimore campus will be named in honor of Henrietta Lacks, who was the source of the HeLa cell line that has been critical to numerous significant advances in modern medicine. -
Honors and Awards for Ten Women Scholars at Colleges and Universities
Oct. 18, 2018 - Here is a listing of women faculty members in higher education who have been honored by colleges and universities or who have received notable awards from other organizations. -
Four Women Recognized as Emerging Leaders by Nature
Oct. 12, 2018 - Four women were among the 11 early-to-mid career scientists recognized as emerging leaders in their field by Nature, an international journal of science. One of the four teaches in the United States and one of the four received her Ph.D. in the United States. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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In Memoriam: Brenda Armstrong, 1949-2018 [10.17.2018]
Brenda Armstrong was a professor and the senior associate dean for student diversity, recruitment, and retention at Duke University School of Medicine. She was the second Black woman in the United Stated to become a board-certified pediatric cardiologist.
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [10.16.2018]
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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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [10.16.2018]
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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Sexual Assault Survey Will Be Conducted This Spring at 33 Major Universities [10.15.2018]
The Association of American Universities is planning a survey that will gather information this spring on sexual assault and misconduct at 33 major research universities. The association estimates that 870,000 graduate, undergraduate, and professional students will complete the survey.
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In Memoriam: Maria “Mia” E. Brazill, 1952-2018 [10.15.2018]
Maria “Mia” E. Brazill was a librarian at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Danielle Laraque-Arena Will Step Down As President of the Upstate Medical University [10.15.2018]
Danielle Laraque-Arena, the first woman president of the Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, has announced she is stepping down, effective at the end of this semester. She will return to a full-time faculty position in June 2019.
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Five Women Promoted and Granted Tenure at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania [10.12.2018]
The women are Cymone Fourshey, Ramona Fruja, Elena Machado Sáez, Jennie Stevenson, and Nikki Young.
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Nine Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments in Higher Education [10.12.2018]
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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Seton Hall University’s Maxine Lurie Wins Award for Her Book on the History of New Jersey [10.11.2018]
Maxine Lurie, professor emerita in the College of Arts and Sciences at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, has received an Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History for her latest book, which contains 650 historical photographs taken in New Jersey.
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Three Women Named to Endowed Professorships at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire [10.11.2018]
The three women appointd to named professorships are Soo Sunny Park in studio art, Amie Thomasson in philosophy, and Jacqueline Wernimont in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
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Two Women Scholars Appointed to Dean Positions [10.11.2018]
Lora Taub-Pervizpour has been appointed dean for digital learning at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Tiffany L. Steinwert has been named dean for religious life at Stanford University in California, effective February 2019.
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College of William & Mary’s Names Plaza in Honor of Its First Woman Board Member [10.11.2018]
The sundial area near the Swem Library at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, has been named in honor of Mary-Cooke Branch Munford, who served on the Board of Visitors from 1920 to 1924 and was a major force in establishing co-education at the college.
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Eleven Women Who Are Taking on New Administrative Roles in Higher Education [10.11.2018]
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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Honors or Awards Presented to Nine Women in the Academic World [10.11.2018]
The women award recipients are Heidi Brady, Robin Aronson, Jacqueline O’Connor, Carol Ebdon, Gao Hong, Annamaria Lusardi, Kelley Wamsley, Arundhati Rao, and Andrea Scott.
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In Memoriam: Gail R. O’Day (1954-2018) [10.11.2018]
Dr. O’Day was dean of the School of Divinity and professor of the New Testament at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She served as dean from 2010 to June 30, 2018.
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University of California, Berkeley Releases Results of Survey on Sexual Violence and Harassment on Campus [10.10.2018]
The survey found that survivors often don’t report harm due to a number of reasons including thinking the incident wasn’t serious enough, feeling that they did not need assistance, and worrying that they would be blamed.
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CalTech Professor Frances Arnold Wins the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [10.10.2018]
Frances H. Arnold, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, and Biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology, has won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. According to the award citation, she is being honored for “the directed evolution of enzymes.”
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Researchers Find Connection Between Gender Diversity and Research Diversity [10.10.2018]
Londa Schiebinger, the John L. Hinds Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and colleagues at Aarhus University in Denmark, recently published a paper proposing ways organizations can continue to encourage gender diversity while also supporting diversity in new research directions.
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Lynne A. Isbell Chosen to Lead the American Society of Primatologists [10.10.2018]
Professor Isbell, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, studies the behavior, ecology, and evolutionary history of primates. She researches primate socio-ecology and any topic that relates to how ecological conditions influence social behavior and organization.
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Cornell University Study Finds Women Who Breastfeed Longer Are More Likely to Have More Children [10.10.2018]
A new study led by Vida Maralani, a professor of sociology Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, has found that women who breastfeed their first child for longer durations than other women were likely to meet or exceed the number of children they expected to have before they started their families.
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Karen Haynes Announces Her Retirement As President of California State University, San Marcos [10.10.2018]
Dr. Haynes became president of California State University, San Marcos in 2004. At the time, the university only enrolled 7,000 students, but under her leadership she more than doubled that number.
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Three New Women Department Chairs at Bowie State University in Maryland [10.10.2018]
LaTanya Brown-Robertson has been named interim chair of the department of accounting, economics, and finance. Gina Lewis has been named chair of the department of fine and performing arts and Altwan Whitefield has been named chair of the department of military science.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [10.9.2018]
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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