Breaking News
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Debra Tucci Named Director of the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
May. 22, 2019 - Currently, Dr. Tucci is a professor of surgery and director of the cochlear implant program in the Division of Head and Neck Surgery & Communication Sciences at Duke University School of Medicine in North Carolina. She has been a member of the Duke faculty since 1993, when she co-founded the Duke Hearing Center. -
Amy Storey Appointed President of Keuka College in New York
May. 22, 2019 - Amy Storey has been serving as interim president of Keuka College since July 2018. Prior to her interim appointment, she had been serving as the college's vice president for advancement and external affairs since 2013. Earlier, she was a development officer for the University of Rochester. -
Women Are Appointed to Lead Three Community Colleges
May. 22, 2019 - Nancee Sorenson was selected as the next chancellor of Louisiana State University-Eunice. Carlee Drummer will be the next president of Columbia-Green Community College in Hudson, New York, and Shannon L. Kennedy was appointed president of Rappahannock Community College in Glenns, Virginia. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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American Association of University Women Report Finds Women Hold Two-Thirds of the Country’s Student Loan Debt
May. 22, 2019 - he report found that the student loan gender gap has nearly doubled in a recent four-year period; women now graduate with an average of $2,700 more debt then men when earning a bachelor's degree. -
Study Finds Women Firefighters More Likely to Suffer from PTSD and Contemplate Suicide
May. 22, 2019 - According to a new study from the University of Houston, women firefighters are more likely than their male peers to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and contemplate suicide. “Because women are such a small number of the population in each fire station, they have been somewhat overlooked when they -
Report Finds Only a Small Fraction of Academic Research is Authored by Women
May. 22, 2019 - For this report, the researchers scanned 14.6 million studies published between 2006 and 2017 by scientists at 963 institutions across the world, determining gender of authors from their first names. In the United States, women were authors on 31.8 percent of all academic research. Lower female representation existed in the - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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Three Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Chairs
May. 23, 2019 - Sharlene Newman has been named a Class of 1948 Herman B Wells Endowed Professor at Indiana University. Alondra Nelson will hold the Harold F. Linder Chair in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio has been named the John J. Lee -
A Dozen Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Posts in Higher Education
May. 23, 2019 - Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. -
Eight Women Scholars Named University Research Professors at the University of Kentucky
May. 23, 2019 - The eight women named research professors at the University of Kentucky are Susan Gardner, Anne Filson, Beth Rous, Donna Wilcock, Misook Chung, Patricia Rippetoe Freeman, Svetla Slavova, and Julie Cerel. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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Eight Women Academics Honored With the Berlin Prize
May. 23, 2019 - The annual awards are presented to United States scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standard of excellence in their field. The recipients will be provided with a semester-long fellowship in Berlin, Germany. -
Two Women Alumni Honored as Vanderbilt University Trailblazers
May. 23, 2019 - In 1879, Kate Lupton was Vanderbilt's first woman graduate. Dorothy Wingfield Phillips was the first African American woman to receive an undergraduate degree from the university in 1967. Portraits of both women will be displayed in Kirkland Hall. -
Three Women in Academia Who Have Been Chosen to Receive Notable Honors or Awards
May. 23, 2019 - The honorees are Kellie R. Casey, director of advocacy at the University of Georgia School of Law, Karen Robinson, associate professor of nursing at Marquette University in Milwaukee, and Margaret Viebrock, director of Chelan and Douglas County extension at Washington State University. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [5.21.2019]
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 [5.21.2019]
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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Smith College Launches $75 Million Fundraising Initiative to Support Student Financial Aid [5.20.2019]
The fundraising effort, “Here For Every Voice,” seeks to secure immediate-use gifts through The Smith Fund, as well as planned gifts and endowed funds that will benefit students at Smith in perpetuity. So far, the campaign has raised close to $32 million.
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Simmons University Establishes Three New Certificates for Master of Social Work Students [5.20.2019]
Simmons University in Boston, Massachusetts, has created three new certificates for online masters of social work students: practice with groups and families, mental health practice, and trauma practice.
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Three Women Taking on New Administrative Roles in the Stanford University Office of Student Affairs [5.20.2019]
Emelyn dela Peña has been named associate provost for inclusion, community, and integrative learning. Rosalind Conerly has been named associate dean of students and director of the Black Community Services Center and Elvira Prieto has been promoted to associate dean of students and director of El Centro Chicano y Latino.
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In Memoriam: Shirley Bradley LeFlore, 1940-2019 [5.20.2019]
In addition to serving as poet laureate for the city of St. Louis, LeFlore was an educator. She was the first African American assistant dean of students at what is now Webster University in Missouri.
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A Dozen Women Faculty Members Who Will Be Taking on New Assignments [5.17.2019]
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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Eight Colleges and Universities Appoint Women to Positions as Deans [5.17.2019]
Thew new deans are Laura Belmonte at Virginia Tech, Anita Welch at Wayne State, Allison Danell at East Carolina University, Karinna M. Vernaza at Gannon University, Carol M. Musil at Case Western Reserve University, Leslie Wolf at Georgia State, Nicole Curvin at Middlebury College in Vermont, and Amy Radford-Popp at Olivet College in Michigan.
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George Washington University Establishes the Center for Women in Engineering [5.17.2019]
The new center aims to increase the number of women students and faculty in engineering and support women in the discipline by hosting events and providing professional development opportunities. Rachelle Heller, a professor of computer science, will serve as the center’s inaugural director.
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In Memoriam: Kristi Larkin Havens, 1964-2019 [5.17.2019]
Dr. Havens joined the University of Tennessee’s department of English in 1996 as a lecturer. She taught courses on composition, public writing, women in American literature, and African-American literature.
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Rosemary Balsam Will Be the First Woman in the U.S. to Receive the Sigourney Award [5.16.2019]
Rosemary Balsam is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. She is the first woman in the United States to receive the Sigourney Award, which honors outstanding work that advances psychoanalysis.
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Five Women Who Have Been Named to Endowed Faculty Positions [5.16.2019]
The women scholars appointed to endowed positions are Suzannah Clark at Harvard University, Mary Murphy at Indiana University, Ute Poerschke at Pennsylvania State University, Nancy Netzer at Boston College, and Martine Haas at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Kent State University in Ohio Honors Its Outgoing President [5.16.2019]
Beverly J. Warren, president of Kent State University in Ohio, will step down from her position on June 30, 2019. To recognize her accomplishments over her five-year tenure, the Kent State University board of trustees has voted to name the university’s new Student Recreation and Wellness Center in her honor.
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A Large Group of Women Who Have Been Appointed to Higher Education Administrative Posts [5.16.2019]
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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Six Women Academics Receive Notable Honors or Awards [5.16.2019]
The honorees are: Frances Negrón-Muntaner of Columbia University, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham of Carnegie Mellon University, Linda Hirst of the University of California, Merced, Alsion Butler of the University of California, Santa Barbara, Anne Kapuscinski, of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Nancy Deloye Fitzroy of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Four Women Faculty Members Earn Promotions at the University of Mobile in Alabama [5.16.2019]
The four promotions were awarded to Barbara Brousseau in French, Cassidy Cooper in sociology, Melissa Thomas in kinesiology, and Rachel Counselman in English.
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Study Finds Persistence of Stereotypical Negative Images of Women in Tech [5.15.2019]
The report found that women in tech fields are “portrayed in ways that overemphasize their appearance and sexuality.” They also found that women in tech are often referred to as “exceptional” implying that a woman’s achievements are “abnormal.”
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Donde Plowman Named Chancellor of the University of Tennessee [5.15.2019]
Currently Dr. Plowman serves as executive vice chancellor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Earlier in her career, Dr. Plowman served as a professor of management at the University of Tennessee and was head of the university’s management department from 2008 to 2010.
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Study Finds Both Men and Women Perceive Women Who Drink as Less Human and More Sexually Available [5.15.2019]
On average, when participants saw a woman holding a beer bottle, they believed she possessed less human characteristics than participants who saw a woman holding a water bottle. However, this disparity was not seen among participants who viewed a man holding a beer bottle and those who saw a man holding a water bottle.
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Audrey Bilger Will Be the First Women President of Reed College in Portland, Oregon [5.15.2019]
Currently, Dr. Bilger serves as vice president for academic affairs, dean of the college, and professor of English at Pomona College in Claremont, California. Earlier in her career, she spent 22 years at Claremont McKenna College.
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Study Finds Adolescent Girls Are More Likely Than Boys to Be Bullied and Attempt Suicide [5.15.2019]
Many schools have been cracking down on physical bullying, which is more common among male adolescents. For girls, bullying is more often relational bullying, such as excluding someone from activities and social circles, or spreading rumors about them. This type of bullying is more difficult for adults to detect.
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Women Appointed to Lead Three Community Colleges in the Western United States [5.15.2019]
The three women who were appointed community college presidents are Angelica Suarez at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California, Monica Torres at Dona Ana Community College at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, and Kim Hoffmans at Ventura Colllege in California.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [5.14.2019]
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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