Breaking News
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Christine Johnson McPhail Is the New President of Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina
Mar. 3, 2021 - Dr. McPhail has been serving as a professor of practice at the John E. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership at Kansas State University. Earlier, she was director of the Community College Leadership Doctoral Program at Morgan State University in Baltimore and president of Cypress College in California. -
Alyson Stover Selected to Lead the American Occupational Therapy Association
Mar. 3, 2021 - Alyson Stover is an assistant professor of occupational therapy in the University of Pittsburgh School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Stover is the first Pitt occupational therapy alumnus or faculty member to ever be selected to hold this national position. -
Julia Chinyere Oparah Will Be the Next Provost at the University of San Francisco
Feb. 24, 2021 - Dr. Oparah has served on the faculty at Mills College in Oakland, California, for more than 20 years. In 2017, she was named provost and dean of the faculty at Mills College. She will assume her new duties at the University of San Francisco on July 12. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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Study Documents a 20 Percent Drop in Publishing Activity After Women Academics Give Birth
Mar. 3, 2021 - The study led by researchers at the University of Colorado suggests that persistent differences in parenting roles are the key reason that men tend to publish more research papers than women. Because publishing is closely linked to promotion, this gender gap could have long-term impacts on academia. -
Women Making Snail-Like Progress in College Coaching and Sports Administration
Mar. 3, 2021 - The latest report from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport (TIDES) at the University of Central Florida finds that women held the head coaching job for only 41 percent of all women’s athletic teams in the NCAA's Division I. In contrast, 95.8 percent of all head coaches for -
The Gender Gap in College Enrollments of Recent High School Graduates
Feb. 24, 2021 - New U.S. Census Bureau data shows that in 2019, 61.3 percent of male high school graduates had enrolled in postsecondary education by October of that year. For women high school graduates in 2019, 69.3 percent were enrolled in college by October. - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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A Trio of Women Appointed to Dean Positions at High-Rated Colleges and Universities
Feb. 25, 2021 - Whitney Soule was appointed vice provost and dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania. Wendy Cadge has been selected as the new dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, and Heather Antecol was appointed vice president for academic affairs and dean -
Nine Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Roles in Higher Education
Feb. 25, 2021 - 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. -
Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointments of Ten Women to Administrative Posts
Feb. 25, 2021 - Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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Association for Women in Mathematics Recognized Mentoring Work of University of Nevada’s Lynda Wiest
Feb. 25, 2021 - Dr. Wiest worked as an elementary and middle school teacher for more than a decade before joining the faculty at the University of Nevada Reno in 1996. She was promoted to associate professor in 2001 and to full professor in 2009. Since 1998, Dr. Wiest has been the director of -
University of Illinois Entomologist Honored for Work to Enhance Public Engagement With Science
Feb. 25, 2021 - Esther Ngumbi, an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Illinois is the 2021 recipient of the Mani L. Bhaumik Award for Public Engagement with Science, an annual award given out by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Previous winners have included Carl Sagan and Neil deGrasse -
Martha Curley Honored for Her Work in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Feb. 25, 2021 - Martha Curley holds the Ruth M. Colket Endowed Chair in Pediatric Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania and is a professor of anesthesia at the university's medical school. Her research focuses on nurse-implemented therapies for acute respiratory failure in critically ill pediatric patients. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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In Memoriam: Rachel Feldhay Brenner, 1946-2021 [3.3.2021]
Rachel Feldhay Brenner was the Elaine Marks WARF Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She chaired the department of Hebrew and Semitic studies at the university from 2004 to 2007. She was also a senior fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [3.2.2021]
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 [3.2.2021]
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: Millie Elizabeth Hughes-Fulford, 1945-2021 [2.26.2021]
Millie Hughes-Fulford was a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the Univerity of California, San Francisco. She was the first woman to serve as a payload specialist on a space shuttle mission.
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Two Women Who Are Retiring From High-Level University Positions [2.26.2021]
Dina López, professor of geological sciences at Ohio University has retired and been granted emerita status and Judith Cone, vice chancellor for innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will retire in April.
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In Memoriam: Mary Elizabeth Young, 1929-2021 [2.26.2021]
Dr. Young joined the faculty at Ohio State University as an instructor in 1955. At this time, she was one of few academic historians devoted to the serious study of American Indians.
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Four Women Scholars Promoted and Granted Tenure at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine [2.25.2021]
The four women appointed to associate professor and granted tenure are Barbara Elias in government, Erika Nyhus in neuroscience and psychology, Kristi A. Olson in philosophy, and Hannah E. Reese in psychology.
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Five Women Appointed to Diversity Positions at Colleges and Universities [2.25.2021]
Taking on new diversity assignments are Jin Feng at Grinnell College in Iowa, Jessica Harris at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Rosta Farzan at the University of Pittsburgh, Precious Porras at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois, and Marilyn Clark at the University of Kentucky.
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Women in the Health Sciences Face Significant Barriers and the Pandemic Made Things Worse [2.24.2021]
In a study conducted prior to the pandemic, scholars at Florida International University found several significant barriers facing early-career women researchers in the health sciences. The authors state that the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated women’s opportunities to achieve success in the field.
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Florida State University’s Karen Oehme to Serve as Chair of the Academic Resilience Consortium [2.24.2021]
The consortium is an association of over 600 faculty, staff, and higher education students dedicated to understanding and promoting student resilience. Its members include representatives from more than 360 schools in 45 U.S. states and 17 countries, supporting one another in the effort to improve programming and pedagogy and remove systemic barriers to student success.
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Stanford University Study Finds That Lack of Self Confidence Can Explain Part of the Gender Pay Gap in STEM Fields [2.24.2021]
Researchers found that women earned $61,000 in their first jobs compared to $65,000 for men, despite having the same degrees and grade point averages. According to the subjects’ answers to questions about their capabilities, the researchers concluded that a portion of the pay gap between men and women could be explained by a gap in self-confidence.
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Jessica McHugh to Lead the Children and Youth Section of the American Occupational Therapy Association [2.24.2021]
Jessica McHugh is an assistant professor in the department of occupational therapy at the University of South Dakota. Dr. McHugh’s teaching is focused on pediatrics and early interventions. In addition to her teaching responsibilities, she conducts research in pediatric neurodevelopment and issues related to vision and youth occupations.
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In Memoriam: Thelma Jean Grossholtz, 1929-2021 [2.24.2021]
Professor Grossholtz joined the faculty at Mount Holyoke College in 1961 and founded the women’s studies program. She taught politics and women’s studies at the college. She retired in 1999.
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [2.23.2021]
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 [2.23.2021]
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 University’s Katharine Park Named a Recipient of the 2021 David Dan Prize [2.22.2021]
Katharine Park is the Samuel Zemurray, Jr. and Doris Zemurray Stone Radcliffe Research Professor of the History of Science at Harvard University. She is being honored by the David Dan Foundation in Israel for her research on the history of medicine in medieval and Renaissance Europe.
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In Memoriam: Judith M. Roy, 1945-2021 [2.22.2021]
In 2005, Judith Roy was elected president of the National Women’s Studies Association. She was the first, and still only, two-year college faculty member elected to the position.
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Three Women Who Have Announced Their Retirements From High-Level Posts in the Academic World [2.22.2021]
After 30 years as president of Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia, Carol Jean Vale announced that she will retire in June 2022. Also stepping down are Trudy Turner, a professor and university secretary at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Paula Volent, chief investment officer at Bowdoin College in Maine.
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In Memoriam: Wynetta Devore, 1929-2020 [2.19.2021]
Dr. Devore began her academic career at Kean University in Union, New Jersey. She then taught at Rutgers University before joining the faculty at Syracuse University’s School of Social Work in 1980. She retired in 1999.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [2.19.2021]
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
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Two American Women Share the Wolf Prize in Medicine for Their Research on RNA Biology [2.18.2021]
Lynne E. Maquat, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Rochester, and Joan Steitz, Sterling Professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University, have been awarded the Wolf Prize in Medicine for their “fundamental discoveries in RNA biology that have the potential to better human lives.”
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Nine Women Scholars Who Have Been Assigned New Duties in Higher Education [2.18.2021]
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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Chien-Shiung Wu is the Third Woman Physicist to Be Honored With a U.S. Commemorative Stamp [2.18.2021]
Dr. Wu was the first female president of the American Physical Society, the first woman hired to a tenure-track position in the physics department at Columbia University, and the first living scientist to have an asteroid named in her honor.
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