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Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.

The seven women scholars earning promotions at Pomona College are Ellie Anderson in philosophy, Heidi Haddad in politics, Victoria Sancho Lobis in art history, Joyce Lu in theatre, Sara Sadhwani in politics, Alaina Woo in physical education, and Megan Zirnstein in linguistics and cognitive science.

In 1971, Schmertz co-founded the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Later in life, she became the first woman to serve as a senior vice president at American Express.

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.