Three Women Professors Appointed to Endowed Chairs at Universities

Elizabeth Brickley has been named the Stephen Berman, MD Endowed Chair in Global Health and head of the Center for Global Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, an tri-institutional school housed at the University of Colorado Anschutz, in partnership with Colorado State University and the University of Northern Colorado. She comes to her new role from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where she serves as head of the Health Equity Action Lab and professor of infectious disease epidemiology and international health. Her research focuses on mitigating the health impacts of infectious and environmental exposures during pregnancy and early life.

Dr. Brickley is a graduate of Williams College in Massachusetts, where she majored in biology. She holds two master’s degrees in geography and epidemiology from the University of Cambridge in England, where she also earned her doctorate in global public health through a joint program with the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

Amy Kaleita has been named the inaugural Larry and Bunita Buss Department Chair in Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering at Iowa State University. An Iowa State faculty member since 2003, she has served as chair of her department for the past four years. Her academic expertise centers on soil and water conservation engineering and management. She focuses her research on information technology for precision conservation.

Dr. Kaleita received her bachelor’s degree in agricultural engineering from Pennsylvania State University. She holds a master’s degree in civil engineering and a Ph.D. in agricultural engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Roni Reiter-Palmon has been named the John Lewis Holland Endowed Chair in Industrial Organizational Psychology at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. She currently serves the university as a distinguished professor, director of the industrial organizational psychology graduate program, and director of innovation for the Center for Collaboration Science. Her scholarship focuses on creativity and innovation in the workplace, specifically cognitive processes, team creativity, development of teamwork and creative problem-solving skills, and leading creative individuals and teams.

Dr. Reiter-Palmon is an honors graduate of Tel-Aviv University in Israel, where she double-majored in psychology and sociology. She holds a master’s degree and Ph.D. in industrial organizational psychology from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.