A native of Algeria, Dr. Smith moved to the United States in the 1950s and taught French at Scripps College and Claremont McKenna College in California. She later taught French and literature at the California Institute of Technology for over two decades.
L'Oréal USA has revealed the 2025 For Women in Science awardees, providing five women postdoctoral scientists grants in order to advance their research.
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new faculty positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to [email protected].
The appointments are Marie Johns at Howard University, Jennifer Jennings at Princeton University, Sarah Reisman at the California Institute of Technology, Jeanne Gillespie at the University of Southern Mississippi, and Diana Montaño at Washington University.
The professors are Kelsey Slater at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lauren Andrews at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Alicia Spence at Texas A&M University, Janelle Adams at Kansas, TaKeia Anthony at Hampton University in Virginia, Jennifer Jackson at the California Institute of Technology, and Hee Ra Yoo at the University of Cincinnati.
The American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in North America, has announced the election of 38 new members. Of the 28 new members from the United States, 12 are women with current ties to the academic world.
The Wolf Prize is presented annually by the Wolf Foundation to exceptional individuals in various scientific and artistic fields. Dr. Bjorkman, longtime professor of biological engineering at Caltech, is the only woman professor in this year's cohort of Wolf Prize Laureates.
Among a cohort of seven recipients, Dr. Li was the only woman to receive the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. She is a leading expert in machine learning whose contributions have contributed to the modern understanding of artificial intelligence.
A scholar of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, Dr. La Belle was the first woman tenure-track hire and the first woman to be awarded tenure at the California Institute of Technology.
The Vilcek Foundation aims to raise awareness of immigrant contributions to the United States. This year, three women scholars at American universities have been honored for their outstanding cancer research contributions.
As a scholar, Dr. Charisi focuses her research on supermassive black holes. She currently serves as an assistant professor at Washington State University and conducts research at the University of Crete.
According to a new report from Westat, nearly 19 percent of women and 21 percent of genderqueer students experienced some form of nonconsensual sexual misconduct in 2024. This is a decrease from 2019.
