All Entries Tagged With: "Emory University"
In Memoriam: Melissa Trifiletti, 1969-2017
Melissa Trifiletti was named director of admissions at Colorado State in 2014 and had achieved record enrollments over the past two years. She was promoted to vice president for enrollment and access in April.
In Memoriam: Lynna Merle Williams, 1951-2017
Lynna Williams was an associate professor of English and creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. An accomplished short story writer, she joined the faculty at Emory University in 1990 and was the second person to direct the university’s creative writing program.
A Large Group of Women Faculty Members Taking on New Duties in Higher Education
Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties.
Academic Study Examines Gender Differences in How Fathers Treat Their Young Children
The study examined brain scans of fathers while they interacted with children in real-world settings. The authors observed that fathers tended to engage in more rough play with boys than with girls. When interacting with girls, fathers sang to their children more often and used words associated with emotions and referred more often to body parts.
New Assignments for Ten Women Faculty Members in Higher Education
Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties.
In Memoriam: Sally O’Neill Tyler Lehr, 1942-2017
Dr. Lehr had a 57-year relationship with Emory University as a student, graduate student, staff nurse, instructor, or professor at the University.
Seven Women Faculty Members Who Have Been Selected for New Roles or Assignments
Here is this week’s listing of women faculty members from colleges and universities throughout the United States who have been appointed to new positions or have been assigned new duties.
Kay Kimball to Lead the Machias Campus of the University of Maine
Dr. Kimball has been serving as interim provost and vice president for academic affairs at the Machias campus of University of Maine. She joined the faculty at the university in 1999 as an assistant professor of history.
Two Women Professors Win National Book Critics Circle Awards
Hope Jahren, an American who is a professor at the University of Oslo in Norway, won in the autobiography catergory and Carol Anderson, the Charles Howard Candler Professor and chair of African American studies at Emory University in Atlanta, won in the criticism category.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Emory University Scholar Wins National Jewish Book Award
Miriam Udel, an associate professor of Yiddish language, literature, and culture in the department of German studies at Emory University in Atlanta, received the Dorot Foundation Award in Modern Jewish Thought and Experience from the Jewish Book Council.
Two Women Scholars Are Leaving Their Posts in the Academic World
J. Nwando Olayiwola, director of the Center for Primary Care Excellence at the University of California, San Francisco, is taking a job in the private sector and Diane Cassels, chief administrative officer at the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University in Atlanta, has retired.
Gabrielle Starr Named the First Woman President of Pomona College in California
When she takes office on July 1, Dr. Starr will be first woman president of the highly ranked liberal arts college in Claremont, California. She currently serves as dean of the College of Arts and Science at New York University.
The New Dean of Students at Oberlin College in Ohio
Meredith Raimondo was named vice president and dean of students at Oberlin College in Ohio. She has served in the post on an interim basis since July. Dr. Raimondo joined the faculty at Oberlin College in 2003.
President of Middlebury College to Lead the American Academy of Religion
With more than 9,000 members, the American Academy of Religion is the world’s largest organization dedicated to the critical study of religion. Dr. Patton will serve one year as vice president, one year as president-elect, and then in 2018 will become president of the organization.
Emory University Surveys Its Faculty and Staff on Sexual Misconduct Issues
In recent times, many colleges and universities have undertaken campus climate surveys of their student bodies with the goal of learning the extent of sexual assault, dating violence, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination at their institution. Emory University in Atlanta also surveyed faculty and staff about their experiences with sexual misconduct.
Emory Professor Honored by the Academy of American Poets
Natasha Trethewey, the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and the former poet laureate of the United States, received the 2016 Fellowship for Distinguished Poetic Achievement from the Academy of American Poets. The award comes with a $25,000 prize.
Clarissa Myrick-Harris Is the New Provost at Savannah State University in Georgia
She was associate provost for pedagogical and curricular initiatives and professor of African American studies at Morehouse College in Atlanta. In 2012, Dr. Myrick-Harris became the first woman to be named an academic dean at Morehouse College, where all the students are men.
Emory University Announces Paid Leave for Staff Members Who Become Parents
Emory University has announced an expansion of its parental leave benefit for women, and men, staff members who become new parents. Under the new policy, new parents who experience a birth or adoption can take three weeks of paid parental leave.
Emory University in Atlanta Chooses Its First Woman President
Since 2013, Dr. Claire E. Sterk has been serving as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory. A native of The Netherlands, Dr. Sterk joined the faculty at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory in 1995.
Five Women Retire From the Faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences at Emory University
The women faculty who are retiring from their teaching posts at Emory University are Wendy Farley in religion, Carole Hahn in educational studies, Ann Hartle in philosophy, Wan-Li Ho in Russian and East Asian languages and culture, and Judith C. Rohrer in art history.
Women Accepted for Admission at High-Ranking Colleges and Universities
Recently, the nation’s highest-ranked colleges and universities informed applicants if they had been accepted for admission. Some of the nation’s most selective institutions provided acceptance data broken down by gender.
Director Announced for New Legal Clinic on Child Endangerment and Sexual Exploitation
Emma M. Hetherington, a graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law, was named as the inaugural director of the new clinic at the law school. She had been in private practice representing clients in child welfare dependency proceedings and sexual exploitation cases.
Three Women Scholars Elected to Lead National Organizations
Nancy Marcus of Florida State University will chair the board of the Council of Graduate Schools. Mary L. Dudziak of Emory University will lead the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and Allison A. Campbell was named president-elect of the American Chemical Society.
Northwestern University Art History Scholar Wins Book Award
Krista A. Thompson, the holder of the Weinberg College Board of Advisers Chair in the department of art history at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, has been selected to receive the the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the College Art Association.
Six Women Professors Presented With Notable Awards
The honorees are Chritine Grant of North Carolina State University, Shannor Vallor of Santa Clara University, Kimberly E. Applegate of Emory University, Julie Bullard of the University of Montana, Nance Wilson of SUNY-Cortland, and Mary Kay Washington of Vanderbilt University.
Ashley Leeds to Head the International Studies Association
Ashley Leeds, professor and chair of the department of political science at Rice University in Houston, Texas, is the new president-elect of the International Studies Association. She will become president of the association in March 2017.
University of California, Santa Barbara Historian Earns Two Book Awards
Mireille Miller-Young, an associate professor of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, has won awards from the American Studies Association and the National Women’s Studies Association for her book A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography.
Four Women Stepping Down From High-Level University Posts
The four women retiring or leaving their positions are Diane Baxter at the University of California, San Diego, Carolyn R. Hodges at the University of Tennessee, Mary H. Gresham at the University at Buffalo, and Melissa Maxcy Wade at Emory University in Atlanta.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
New Administration Posts for 10 Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
Emory University Professor to Be Subject of a New Film Starring Hilary Swank
Deborah Lipstadt is the Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. Professor Lipstadt’s 2005 book about her libel trial in British courts for accusing David Irving of being a “Holocaust denier” is coming to the big screen.
In Memoriam: Verdelle B. Bellamy, 1927-2015
In 1963, Verdelle Bellamy received a master’s degree in nursing from Emory University. She was one of two Black students to earn a degree that day, the first African Americans to earn degrees from the university.
