Gabriella Carini is director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source and Kira Reed is taking on a special assignment in community impact assessment at Syracuse University. Angel Jones and Alicia B. Batson have joined the faculties of the University of Washington Tacoma and Meharry Medical College, respectively.

The National Academy of Medicine has honored Kristine Yaffe, endowed professor in psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco, for her pioneering research on cognitive aging and dementia prevention.

Lisa Prosser is the inaugural dean of the forthcoming School of Public Health at Wayne State University in Detroit. Carolyn Keller was promoted to dean of the College of Business, Industry, Life Science, and Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Cynthia Gray was promoted to dean of nursing and allied health sciences at Florence-Darlington Technical College in South Carolina.

Dr. Xu, the Li Ka Shing Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Michigan, has been honored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science for inventing histotripsy, an ultrasound-based treatment that destroys tumors without surgery and with few side effects.

The appointments are Carla Hadden at the University of Georgia, Lauren Collier at Mount Holyoke College, Kiona Sinks at Metropolitan Community College, Catherine Parker Edmonson at the University of Southern Mississippi, Roxie Xie at the University of Arkansas, Jennifer Horstman at Virginia Tech, Maya Mapp at Bronx Community College, Marissa Langford at North Carolina State University, and Ashley Schaefer at Vincennes University.

Dr. Edwards is an assistant professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She was recently honored by the American Sociological Association for her latest book, Fueling Development: How Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago.

The women who have been selected for endowed faculty appointments are Liz Lyons at the University of California, San Diego, Susannah Gibbs at Willamette University in Oregon, Carole Boyce-Davies at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and Belinda McSwain Sturm at Virginia Tech.

Smith College, the highly rated liberal arts educational institution for women in Northampton, Massachusetts, has 14 new tenured or tenure-track faculty on campus this fall. Ten of the new faculty members are women.

In 2025, 19,655 American women earned research doctorates, an all-time high. But there was a wide gender disparity in doctoral awards in specific disciplines. Less than one third of all doctorates in mathematics, engineering, and computer science were awarded to women.

The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently announced the 20 latest recipients in its fellowship program, commonly referred to as “genius grants.” Six of the awardees are American women with ties to the academic world.

Among undergraduate award recipients in the 2024–2025 academic year, women's median time to degree was faster than men's for bachelor's degree recipients. However, men had a faster median time to degree at the associate degree and certificate levels.

Along with 31 other economies, the U.S. has reached 100 percent gender parity in educational attainment. But gender gaps in the U.S. persist in economic opportunity, health and survival, and political empowerment, according to a new report from the World Economic Forum.