Breaking News
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Alison Buckley Appointed President of the State University of New York Ulster
Jun. 29, 2022 - Dr. Buckley has been serving as vice president for enrollment management and student affairs at Connecticut State Community Colleges in New Britain. She previously served as associate vice president for enrollment services at Howard Community College in Columbia, Maryland. -
Three Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Provost Positions
Jun. 29, 2022 - Michelle Mattson was named provost and vice president for academic affairs at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Lori Hunt was appointed provost at the Community Colleges of Spokane in Washington and Tammi Vacha-Haase will be the new provost and vice president for academic affairs at Texas A&M University-Commerce. -
Lynn Ortale is the New President of Maria College in Albany, New York
Jun. 29, 2022 - For the past 13 years, Dr. Ortale has served as vice president for student life at Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia and has also been an adjunct faculty member in the higher education administration graduate program at DeSales University in Center Valley, Pennsylvania. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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Fifty Years After Title IX, We Are Very Far From Gender Equity in College Athletics
Jun. 29, 2022 - In the NCAA's Divison 1, women now make up 47.1 percent of all student athletes. Yet 54 percent of all students in Division 1 schools are women.The difference between median total expenses for men's and women's programs at Football Bowl Subdivision schools has grown from $12.7 million in 2009 to $25.6 million in 2019. -
Study Examines The Low Percentage of Women in the Academic Discipline of Finance
Jun. 29, 2022 - New research by Renee B. Adams of the University of Oxford and Jing Xu of the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia, finds that women are vastly underrepresented in the field of finance. But those women who do progress to the top of the profession are more successful than their male counterparts. -
Women Are a Small Fraction of Editorial Board Members in Environmental Science and Public Health Journals
Jun. 29, 2022 - The authors examined the gender makeup of the editorial boards of 591 journals in the fields of environmental sciences and public health. More than 75 percent of all journals had editorial boards that were at least 55 percent male. Only 13.2 percent of the journals had editorial boards where men made up between 45 and 55 percent of all members. - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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Eight Women Scholars Who Have Been Given New Assignments in Higher Education
Jul. 1, 2022 - Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com. -
Six Women Who Have Been Named Deans at Colleges and Universities
Jun. 30, 2022 - The new deans are Julia M. Ritter at the University of Southern California, Keshia Elder at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, Sonia Kreidenweis at Colorado State University, Amy Falkner at Ithaca College in New York, Lisa A. Freeman at the University of Illinois Chicago, and Stacey Altman at East Carolina University in Greenville, Nrth Carolna. -
Nine Women Who Have Been Appointed to New Administrative Positions in Higher Education
Jun. 30, 2022 - 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. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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Women Win Three of the Four Investigator Awards From the Brown Science Foundation
Jun. 30, 2022 - The Investigator Awards given out by The Joe W. and Dorothy Dorsett Brown Foundation of Metairie, Louisiana, recognize curiosity-driven basic research in chemistry and physics with the goal of alleviating human suffering. The award supports investigators’ research with $2 million over five years. -
University of Connecticut’s Manisha Sinha Wins the James W.C. Pennington Award
Jun. 30, 2022 - Manisha Sinha, the James L. and Shirley A. Draper Professor in American History at the University of Connecticut, is the recipient of the James W.C. Pennington Award from the Heidelberg Center for American Studies and the faculty of theology of Heidelberg University in Germany. -
Marlese Durr Honored For Her Scholarship on the Role of Women in Society
Jun. 30, 2022 - Marlese Durr, professor of sociology at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, was honored with the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association. Dr. Durr has taught at Wright State University for 28 years. Her research and publications largely focus on African American women and managerial and labor markets in the public sector. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [7.5.2022]
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 [7.5.2022]
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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Two Women Serving as College Presidents Announce Their Retirements [7.1.2022]
Clayton Spencer, president of Bates College in Waterville, Maine since 2012, announced that she will step down from her post on June 30, 2023, and Lori Bennett, president of Clovis Community College in Fresno, California, since 2016, has announced that she will retire at the end of the calendar year.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [7.1.2022]
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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Four Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships [6.30.2022]
The women named to endowed professorships are Julie Brahmer at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Evelynn Hammonds at Spelman College in Atlanta, Cynthia Rudin at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and Autumn Hostetter at Kalamazoo College in Michigan.
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Three Selective Colleges Announce the Appointment of Women to Diversity Positions [6.30.2022]
Eloísa Gordon-Mora was named chief diversity officer at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. Phyllis Esposito was appointed vice president and dean for institutional diversity at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, and Sheila Lloyd was named senior vice president for justice, equity, and antiracism at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts.
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In Memoriam: Browne C. Lewis, 1962-2022 [6.29.2022]
Browne C. Lewis, dean of the North Carolina Central University School of Law, died on June 2 while attending a conference in Colorado. She was 60 years old.
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [6.28.2022]
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 [6.28.2022]
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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Caltech’s Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz Honored by the Zurich-Based NOMIS Foundation [6.27.2022]
The Distinguished Scientist and Scholar Award from the NOMIS Foundation is presented to “pioneering scientists and scholars who, through their innovative, groundbreaking research, have made a significant contribution to their respective fields and who inspire the world around them.”
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In Memoriam: Florence Rita Sullivan, 1962-2022 [6.24.2022]
Florence Rita Sullivan, a professor of math, science, and learning technologies in the College of Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, passed away at her home in Easthampton, Massachusetts, on June 1.
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Six Women Faculty Members Who Taking on New Roles or Duties at Universities [6.24.2022]
Taking on new duties are Sarah Mollman at South Dakota State University, Laura Freeman at Virginia Tech, Carol Loranger at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, Robin R. Davis at Virginia Union University in Richmond, Elizabeth Otto at the University at Buffalo, and Rachael Hess at the University of Utah.
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Seven Women in Higher Education Who Have Been Appointed to Dean Positions [6.23.2022]
The appointments went to Eva Skuka at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Martha Glass at Virginia Tech, Michelle Knight-Manuel at the University of Denver, Ingrid S. Fulmer at the University of Illinois, Shannon Hader at American University, Susan C. Alberts at Duke University, and Amy Murtha at the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
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Priyamvada Natarajan Receives the Liberty Science Center Genius Award [6.23.2022]
Priyamvada Natarajan, a Yale astrophysicist who explores cosmology, gravitational lensing, and black hole physics, is being honored by the Liberty Science Center in New Jersey for her research on dark matter, dark energy, and black holes.
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Universities Announce the Appointment of Nine Women to Administrative Posts [6.23.2022]
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.
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University of Alabama at Birmingham Scholar Honored for Her Work to Eliminate Cervical Cancer [6.23.2022]
Isabel Scarinci, vice chair of Global and Rural Health for the department of obstetrics and gynecology and senior adviser for globalization and cancer with the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, is the inaugural winner of the Trailblazer Award from TogetHER for Health.
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Four Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Professorships [6.23.2022]
The four women appointed to endowed chairs are Stephanie Martin at Boise State University in Idaho, Louise Meintjes at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, Regina Stevens-Truss at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, and Hala Auji at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
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Jiajia Rao Wins the Young Scientist Research Award From the American Oil Chemists’ Society [6.23.2022]
Dr. Rao has worked at North Dakota State University since 2015, where her research focus is on identifying the structural and functional properties of food ingredients from agricultural crops, such as pulses, industrial hemp, oat and barley, and their application in food.
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Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Diversity Posts in Higher Education [6.23.2022]
Thelathia “Nikki” Young was appointed vice president for institutional equity and access at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Emanuela Kucik was named faculty fellow for diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and Annie McGowan is the new vice president in the Office of Diversity at Texas A&M University.
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Jayathi Murthy Has Been Appointed the Sixteenth President of Oregon State University [6.22.2022]
Since 2016, Dr. Murthy has been serving as the Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. She was the first woman to hold that position. She was also a professor in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department.
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Banishing the Stereotype That Women Do Not Perform Well in College-Level Physics [6.22.2022]
Researchers at Texas A&M University gathered data from 10,000 students over the course of 10 years. All students had taken introductory physics courses, of which exam scores and final averages were analyzed. According to the data, there was no evidence that female students performed worse in these specific courses.
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Baylor University Scholar Heading North to Lead St. Mary’s University in Calgary, Alberta [6.22.2022]
Sinda Vanderpool, who has spent her years as a student and an educator in the United States will be the new president and vice-chancellor of St. Mary’s University in Calgary, Alberta, in Canada. When she takes office on July, 1, she will be the first woman to lead the university.
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Alcohol Increasingly Has Become a Contributing Factor in Campus Sexual Assaults [6.22.2022]
Research led by Mary Koss, a Regents’ Professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona, shows that 30 years ago, 50 percent of women who were assaulted were inebriated at the time of the assault. In the most recent study, 75 percent of the women college students said they were inebriated.
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