At the University of South Florida College of Public Health, Jamie Corvin will serve as senior associate dean for academic and student affairs, Tricia Penniecook will serve as director of the Center for Leadership in Public Health Practice, and Ellen Daley will serve as vice dean for faculty and research.

Dr. Kane was a curator with Yale University's Garvan and Related Collections of American Art for nearly six decades. She was a scholar of American decorative arts who specialized in early American furniture, seventeenth-century silver, and contemporary craft.

Yajaira Padilla of the University of Arkansas, Ruth Braunstein of Johns Hopkins University, Amelia Kraehe of the University of Arizona, and Kathy Newman of Mississippi University for Women are taking on academic leadership roles at their institutions. Chloe Dedic is a new associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Presented every four years by the International Mathematical Union, the Fields Medal is considered the highest honor in the field of mathematics. Dr. Wang has been recognized for her recent resolution of the Kakeya conjecture, a central problem in harmonic analysis and geometry that had been unsolved for more than a century.

The new deans are Janice Zgibor at the University of South Florida, Angela Gilmore at the University of the District of Columbia, Windy Ann Mack Stephenson at South Carolina State University, Heidi Getchell-Bastien at Northern Essex Community College, Lisa Reyes Mason at the University of Illinois, and Vanessa B. Sheppard at Florida A&M University.

Dr. Falleti is an endowed professor in political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Her 2010 book Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America was recently recognized by the American Political Science Association as a lasting achievement in federalism and intergovernmental relations scholarship.

Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

As the 2026 recipient of the Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, Huffman's new poetry collection, Dilemma, will be published by Vanderbilt University Press in 2027. Huffman, an instructor at Warren Wilson College, is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in English and literary arts at the University of Denver.

The women who have been selected for endowed faculty appointments are Emily Patterson at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Julie Jessop at Mississippi State University, and Lora Iannotti at Washington University in St. Louis.

In 2024, women earned 26.6 percent of all bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in engineering. Women were most represented among graduates in the environmental and biomedical disciplines. They were least represented among graduates in electrical and mechanical disciplines.

Dr. Dotson spent six years as president of Yuba College in California. Earlier, she served eight years as a senior administrator with Clover Park Technical College in Washington.

After controlling for factors such as field of study, campus, and when faculty began their academic careers, a team of scholars at the University of California, San Diego have found the gender pay gap among University of California System social sciences faculty is roughly 4.3 percent.