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In Memoriam: Catherine Elizabeth Pope

In Memoriam: Catherine Elizabeth Pope

Katie Pope was the associate vice chancellor for strategic operations and planning in the University of Pittsburgh’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion. Earlier in her career, she was the deputy Title IX coordinator at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, and then Title IX coordinator at Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

In Memoriam: Lee Etta Powell, 1930-2023

In Memoriam: Lee Etta Powell, 1930-2023

Powell was the first woman and the first African Americans to serve as superintendent of the Cincinnati public school system, the third largest in the state of Ohio. She later taught at George Washington University.

In Memoriam: Candace Introcaso, 1953-2023

In Memoriam: Candace Introcaso, 1953-2023

Dr. Introcaso worked and taught at what was then La Roche College from 1986 to 1991. She later served as assistant vice president for academic affairs at Heritage College in Washington State and as vice president for planning and assessment at Barry University in Miami, Florida. She was named president of what is now La Roche University in 2004.

In Memoriam: Rosalie Mary Ghilardi Mirenda, 1937-2023

In Memoriam: Rosalie Mary Ghilardi Mirenda, 1937-2023

Dr. Mirenda began her academic career as a nursing instructor at Our Lady of Angels College – now Neumann University in Aston, Pennsylvania – in 1973. Over her long career at Neumann, she served as a professor of nursing, dean of nursing, and vice president for academic affairs. Dr. Mirenda served as president at Neumann University for more than two decades from 1996 to 2017.

In Memoriam: Mary Jean Bailey DeMarr, 1932-2023

Dr. DeMarr taught at Willamette College in Salem, Oregon, before joining the department of English at Indiana State University, where she specialized in American literature and was instrumental in the development of the women’s studies program.

In Memoriam: Ruth Ann Shea Burns, 1944-2023

In Memoriam: Ruth Ann Shea Burns, 1944-2023

A two-time graduate of Rutgers University in New Jersey, In 1981, Burns began an 18-year career at WNET-TV, the public broadcasting station in the New York area. She later served as vice president of marketing and external affairs for Georgian Court University in Lakewood, New Jersey.

In Memoriam: Marilyn Ann Melhuish, 1934-2023

In Memoriam: Marilyn Ann Melhuish, 1934-2023

After teaching first grade in the public schools in Montrose, Pennsylvania, Melhuish joined the faculty at Edinboro University in Pennsylvania in 1960. She taught elementary students at the campus school and taught and advised college-level students as an assistant professor of education.

In Memoriam: Lilly Adams-Dudley, 1950-2023

In Memoriam: Lilly Adams-Dudley, 1950-2023

In 1975, Lilly Adams-Dudley joined the staff at Canisius College as a language arts specialist. She retired in 2018 as the director of Canisius Opportunity Programs for Education (COPE) which provided scholarships, mentoring, and tutoring for students from underrepresented groups.

In Memoriam: Alice Sterling Honig, 1929-2023

In Memoriam: Alice Sterling Honig, 1929-2023

After obtaining a Ph.D. in developmental psychology at Syracuse University, Dr. Honig and her colleagues implemented one of the longest federally funded intervention programs aimed to ward off the pernicious effects of poverty on the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development of young children.

In Memoriam: Misti Hewatt Yang, 1979-2023

In Memoriam: Misti Hewatt Yang, 1979-2023

Since 2021, Dr. Yang served as the Mellon Assistant Professor of the Public Communication of Science and Technology at Vanderbilt University, where she taught courses such as “The Rhetoric of Technoscience,” “Public Communication of Science,” and “Ethics in Science and Technology Communication.”

In Memoriam: Karen Anne Kobolka Farber, 1949-2023

In Memoriam: Karen Anne Kobolka Farber, 1949-2023

Dr. Farber held senior executive-level university appointments at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and California Polytechnic University Pomona. She was then appointed assistant vice chancellor of the California State University System and then associate vice chancellor for the University of Maryland System, before joining the faculty at the University of Virginia.

In Memoriam: Lee Walker Willard, 1951-2023

In Memoriam: Lee Walker Willard, 1951-2023

Early in her career, Dr. Willard taught at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Maryland. At Duke University, she served Trinity College for 37 years under the leadership of 10 deans as assistant dean, associate dean, senior associate dean, and associate vice provost of undergraduate education.

In Memoriam: Carol Fryar Hines, 1942-2023

In Memoriam: Carol Fryar Hines, 1942-2023

Carol F. Hines, who taught art at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, for nearly 35 years, died on March 4. She was 80 years old.

In Memoriam: Janet Suzanne Sinsheimer

In Memoriam: Janet Suzanne Sinsheimer

Dr. Sinheimer began teaching at UCLA in 1995 and was named an assistant professor of human genetics in 1999. She was granted tenure in 2002 and appointed to full professor in 2007. Dr. Sinheimer was a member of the faculty of three departments: biostatistics, computational medicine, and human genetics.

In Memoriam: Betty Glassman Trachtenberg, 1933-2023

In Memoriam: Betty Glassman Trachtenberg, 1933-2023

Betty Trachtenberg worked in the admissions office Yale and then was named director of freshman affairs. She was then promoted to the role of associate dean of Yale College and dean of student affairs, adding all of undergraduate student affairs to her portfolio. She retired in 2007.

In Memoriam: Kaitlyn A. Carter, 1979-2023

In Memoriam: Kaitlyn A. Carter, 1979-2023

In 2003, Kaitlyn Carter joined the access and user services department in the McCabe Library at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. In 2015, she took on her most recent role as head of a newly formed digital initiatives and scholarship department.

In Memoriam: Linda Bassett

In Memoriam: Linda Bassett

Bassett joined the communications and marketing division of Rutgers University in 1989, where she worked to meet the community engagement goals of three Rutgers presidents. She retired in 2017.

In Memoriam: Esperanza Bravo de Varona, 1927-2023

In Memoriam: Esperanza Bravo de Varona, 1927-2023

Dr. de Varona began working in the University Libraries division of the University of Miami in the late 1960s. Along with other Cuban Americans who worked for the libraries, Dr. de Varona collected documents, posters, newspapers, maps, books, and anything that had to do with Cuba and the Cuban exile experience. These were later assembled into the University of Miami Libraries’ Cuban Heritage Collection. She retired from the university in 2013.

In Memoriam: Elizabeth Culler, 1948-2023

In Memoriam: Elizabeth Culler, 1948-2023

Dr. Culler served as an adjunct professor in the master’s degree program of marriage and family therapy at Fairfield University in Connecticut and as an associate professor in the master’s program in counseling psychology at Goddard College from 1993 to 1999. Until 2008, she worked at the Yale Child Study Center.

In Memoriam: Patricia Liggins Hill, 1942-2023

In Memoriam: Patricia Liggins Hill, 1942-2023

Dr. Hill joined the faculty at the University of San Francisco in 1970 as an instructor in English and ethnic studies. Dr. Hill retired as a full professor in 2015 after teaching at the University of San Francisco for 45 years.

In Memoriam: Barbara Ruben Migeon, 1931-2023

In Memoriam: Barbara Ruben Migeon, 1931-2023

In 1963, Dr. Migeon became an instructor in the pediatrics department at Johns Hopkins University. In 1978, she becase the sixth woman to hold the rank of full professor at the medical school. Dr. Migeon retired from the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2020, after serving on the faculty for 57 years.

In Memoriam: Rebecca Margaret Blank, 1955-2023

In Memoriam: Rebecca Margaret Blank, 1955-2023

Dr. Black was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 2013 to 2022. In October 2021 Northwestern University announced that Dr. Blank had been selected to serve as its seventeenth president and first woman leader. Last summer, Dr. Blank announced that she would be unable to serve due to her diagnosis of cancer.

In Memoriam: Margaret JoAnne Safrit, 1935-2023

In Memoriam: Margaret JoAnne Safrit, 1935-2023

Dr. Safrit had a long career in academia, holding faculty positions at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, American University in Washington, D.C, and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

In Memoriam: Laura M. Whitman, 1964-2023

In Memoriam: Laura M. Whitman, 1964-2023

Dr. Whitman joined the faculty at Yale Medical School in 1997. She served as the associate program director for ambulatory education for the Traditional Internal Medicine Residency from 2004–2013. Later, Dr. Whitman was medical director of the Primary Care Center at Yale New Haven Hospital and then as a medical director of the New Haven Primary Care Consortium.

In Memoriam: Mary Despina Lekas, 1928-2023

In Memoriam: Mary Despina Lekas, 1928-2023

Dr. Lekas was the first woman to head the otolaryngology department at Rhode Island Hospital. She was also the first woman to be a professor of clinical otolaryngology at Brown University’s medical school and the first woman to be elected president of the New England Otolaryngological Society.

In Memoriam: Christine M. Cano, 1962-2022

In Memoriam: Christine M. Cano, 1962-2022

Dr. Cano joined the department of modern languages and literatures at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, 1999. She taught courses on a wide range of language, literature, and culture courses at the university, including courses on French cinema and the contemporary novel.

In Memoriam: Josephine Rachel Broude, 1927-2022

In Memoriam: Josephine Rachel Broude, 1927-2022

Josephine Broude was executive assistant to the provost at Yale University for over 30 years. During her tenure, she ran the executive office for 10 different provosts of Yale University.

In Memoriam: Sharon Church McNabb, 1948-2022

In Memoriam: Sharon Church McNabb, 1948-2022

Professor Church was a studio jeweler who created innovative works made from metal, stone, wood, bone, and other natural elements. Professor Church joined the faculty at what is now the University of the Arts in Philadelphia in 1979 and remained on the faculty for 35 years retiring in 2014.

In Memoriam: Fannie Gaston-Johansson, 1938-2023

In Memoriam: Fannie Gaston-Johansson, 1938-2023

Dr. Gaston-Johansson was a member of the University of Nebraska Medical Center faculty from 1985 to 1993. She joined the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing in 1993. For a time, she held joint appointments at Johns Hopkins and the University of Gothenburg in Sweden, where she had earned a Ph.D.

In Memoriam: Theresa Mary Malumphy, 1932-2022

In Memoriam: Theresa Mary Malumphy, 1932-2022

Dr. Malumphy held faculty posts at the University of Wisconsin, the University of North Dakota, and the University of Oregon before joining the faculty at the University of Northern Colorado. She taught kinesiology and women’s studies at the University of Northern Colorado for 22 years.

In Memoriam: Shoshana Levy, 1939-2022

In Memoriam: Shoshana Levy, 1939-2022

Shoshana Levy, a long-time faculty member at Stanford Medical School, died late last year.

In Memoriam: Theresa A. Powell

In Memoriam: Theresa A. Powell

Theresa A. Powell was vice president for student affairs at Temple University in Philadelphia. Dr. Powell came to Temple in 2002 after serving as vice president of student affairs at Western Michigan University.

In Memoriam: Susan S. Smyth, 1965-2022

In Memoriam: Susan S. Smyth, 1965-2022

Dr. Smyth began her tenure as dean of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences on June 1, 2021, and continue to work until a few days before her death. Before coming to the University of Arkansas, she was the chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and the director of the Gill Heart and Vascular Institute at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine.

In Memoriam: Mary Ruth Morris Stone, 1942-2022

In Memoriam: Mary Ruth Morris Stone, 1942-2022

Stone taught in public and private K-12 schools and served on the faculty at Lee University on three different occasions. She also taught at the College of Saint Mary, Metropolitan Technical Community College, the University of Nebraska-Omaha, and the School of Christian Ministry and Patten University in California.

In Memoriam: Irmgard Joan Lorch Staple, 1923-2022

In Memoriam: Irmgard Joan Lorch Staple, 1923-2022

Dr. Staple moved to the United States in 1963 to join the faculty at the Center for Theoretical Biology at the University at Buffalo of the State University of New York. She joined the faculty at Canisius College in 1973 and served as professor and chair of the department of biology.