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Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointment of Six Women to Administrative Posts
Taking on new administrative duties are Julie Heath Indiana University, Kelly McMurray at the University of the District of Columbia, Penny Mansell at the Mississippi University for Women, Adrienne Cowan Edney at Talladega College in Alabama, Kristie Bowers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and Rachel Nosowsky at the University of California, San Francisco.
A Quartet of Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Named Professorships
The four women named to endowed professorships are Carol Handwerker in the School of Materials Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, Young-joo Lee in the School of Philanthropy at Indiana University, Sharon Dutrow at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Indiana, and Audrey Kurth Cronin at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
Claudia Bornholdt Named the Music Educator of the Year
Claudia Bornholdt, dean of the Thomas W. and Robin W. Edwards College of Humanities and Fine Arts at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, South Carolina, was honored by the Women Songwriters Hall of Fame with a Lifetime Achievement Award. She was also named 2023 Music Educator of the Year for her support of women in music and the arts.
Simple and Inexpensive Interventions Can Save Women’s Lives in Rural America
Researchers from Indiana University and Ohio State University recruited women from rural Indiana and Ohio who were not up to date on any or all recommended cancer screenings. Some were mailed a DVD and others also received follow-up counseling. Women who got the DVD were twice as likely as women who did not get the DVD to obtain the recommended screenings. Women who got the DVD and then were telephoned by counselors were six times as likely to get the recommended screenings.
Union College’s Mary Carroll to Serve as President of the American Chemical Society
Dr. Carroll, an analytical chemist, joined Union College in 1992, the first alumna hired as a tenure-track member of the college’s faculty. She co-directs the college’s Aerogel Lab, a cross-disciplinary group of students and faculty in chemistry, mechanical engineering, and other STEM fields.
Deborah Ford Named Chancellor of Indiana University Southeast in New Albany
Dr. Ford currently serves as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, a role she has held since 2009. Before joining the University of Wisconsin System, Dr. Ford served as vice president for student affairs at the University of West Florida, and vice president for student affairs and dean of students at Spalding University in Kentucky.
Cornell’s Melody Zeng to Be Honored by the American Association of Immunologists
As a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Melody Seng was among the first to discover that a class of antibodies called IgG recognizes gut bacteria for maintenance of host-microbe symbiosis in the intestine. Dr. Zeng established her lab at Weill Cornell Medicine in 2019.
Indiana University Study Examines the Average Age Women Have Given Birth Over the Past 250,000 Years
Researchers determined that the average age that humans had children throughout the past 250,000 years is 26.9. Furthermore, fathers were consistently older, at 30.7 years on average, than mothers, at 23.2 years on average. But the age gap has shrunk in the past 5,000 years. The shrinking gap seems to largely be due to mothers having children at older ages.
Jennifer Hinton Has Been Selected to Lead the American Therapeutic Recreation Association
Jennifer Hinton is a professor and program director of the recreational therapy program at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. She will serve one year as president-elect, followed by one year as president and one year as past-president.
In Memoriam: Agate Nesaule, 1938-2022
Dr. Nesule, a native of Latvia, joined the faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 1963. There she was a co-founder of the women’s studies department and won many teaching awards. She retired from teaching in 1996 to concentrate on her writing career.
Indiana University Announces the Establishment of the Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business
The center aims to prepare current and future business leaders to create organizational cultures and instill individual behaviors that advance equality in business operations and create safer work environments.
Amy Dittmar Will Be the Next Provost at Rice University in Houston
Dr. Dittmar has been serving as senior vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs and professor of economics and finance at the University of Michigan. Earlier, she was senior associate dean for graduate programs at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.
Eight Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Posts at Colleges and Universities
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.
Colleges and Universities Announce the Appointment of Seven Women to Administrative Posts
Taking on new duties are Yakut Gazi at Duke University, Chanelle Reese at the University of Iowa, Jaclyn Rossi at Niagara University, Reneé Watson at Central Michigan University, Julie Payne-Kirchmeier at Indiana University, Mary Duvall at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and Romy Riddick at Prinecton University.
Emily Barnes Appointed Provost at Siena Heights University in Adrian, Michigan
Dr. Barnes has been serving as interim president of Cleary University in Howell, Michigan. She is the first woman to lead that educational institution. Before being named interim president, Dr. Barnes was provost and executive vice president of academic affairs at Cleary University.
Stefanie Niles Will Lead Cottey College, a Women’s College in Nevada, Missouri
Dr. Niles comes to Cottey College from Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, Ohio, where she has served as vice president for enrollment and communications, a position she has held since 2018.
In Memoriam: Sara Suleri Goodyear, 1953-2022
Dr. Goodyear taught at Williams College in Massachusetts and, for most of her career, at Yale University, beginning in 1983. She was a founding editor of the Yale Journal of Criticism.
Jennifer Grotz of the University of Rochester Wins Poetry Translation Award
Jennifer Grotz, a professor of English at the University of Rochester in New York, is sharing the 2022 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, which recognizes book-length translations of poetry from any language into English.
Ten Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Roles at Colleges and Universities
Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States.
Syracuse University Scholar Wins Book Prize for Her Study of Non-Governmental Organizations in Egypt
Catherine E. Herrold, associate professor of public administration and international affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in New York, has been awarded the Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize from the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action.
In Memoriam: Carol Marion Wick, 1932-2021
Dr. Wick joined the history department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1965. She was promoted to full professor in 1976. Professor Wick served as vice chancellor for academic affairs for four years and also was chair of the faculty and state secretary of the Association of University of Wisconsin Faculty.
In Memoriam: Carmen-Helena Téllez, 1955-2021
Carmen-Helena Téllez, a professor of conducting in the department of music at the University of Notre Dame, died on December 10.
American Political Science Association Recognized Kennesaw State University’s Charity Butcher
Charity Butcher, a professor of political science at Kennesaw State University in Georgia has been recognized for her contributions to undergraduate and graduate teaching with the 2021 Distinguished Teaching Award from the American Political Science Association.
Indiana University Acquires the Collection of Madeline Kripke, the “Dame of Dictionaries”
Madeline Kripke, known as the “Dame of Dictionaries,” kept a stockpile in her New York City apartment of more than 20,000 linguistic books and ephemera that was often referred to as the world’s largest and finest dictionary collection. She died in April 2020 of complications from COVID-19.
Five Women Scholars Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Positions in Higher Education
The five women appointed to endowed positions are Eneida Mendonca of Indiana University, Natalie Fixmer-Oraiz at the University of Iowa, Emily Greenwood at Princeton University in New Jersey, Jennifer Siegel at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, and Rachael Gordon at the University of Louisiana Lafayette.
Study Finds That Women Often Do Not Receive the Credit They Deserve for Academic Scholarship
According to the study of more than 5,500 researchers in multiple fields, women were significantly more likely than men to report disagreements about who was named on a paper and in the order of authorship. The researchers found this to be particularly true in natural sciences and engineering.
Six Universities Have Announced the Appointments of Women to Dean Positions
The six women appointed to dean positions are Julie Rich t Weber State University in Utah, Versie Johnson-Mallard at Kent State University in Ohio, Dana N. Zimmel at the University of Florida, Diane Dallis-Comentale at Indian University, Leah Fullman at Faulkner University in Montgomery, Alabama, and Kimberly Jacob Arriola at Emory University in Atlanta.
Summer Johnson McGee Appointed President of Salem Academy and College in North Carolina
Dr. McGee is the founding and current dean of the School of Health Sciences at the University of New Haven in West Haven, Connecticut. Before joining the University of New Haven, Dr. McGee served on the faculty of Loyola University Chicago, the University of Kansas School of Medicine, and Albany Medical College.
Eight Women Scholars Appointed to Dean Positions at Colleges and Universities
As the end of the academic year is upon us and a new one is ready to dawn, colleges and universities throughout the United States are appointing deans to head their colleges and schools. Here are eight women who have been appointed to dean positions.
A Quartet of Women Scholars Who Have Been Named to Endowed Professorships
The four women appointed to endowed chairs are Tara Sethia at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Claudia Johnson at Indiana University Bloomington, L.A. Paul at Yale University, and Daphne Pedersen at the University of North Dakoata.
Universities Appoint Three Women Scholars to Endowed Chairs
Christine Hayes has been appointed the Sterling Professor of Religious Studies at Yale University. Dionne Danns, a professor in the School of Education at Indiana University, and Anna Nagurney, a professor in the department of operations and information management at the University of Massachusetts were also named to endowed chairs.
Pamela Whitten Will Be the First Woman President of Indiana University
Dr. Whitten has served as president of Kennesaw State University in Georgia since 2018. From 2014 to 2018, she was provost and senior vice president of academic affairs at the University of Georgia. Earlier in her career, Dr. Whitten was dean of the College of Communication Arts & Sciences at Michigan State University.
Four Women Who Are Stepping Down From High-Level Positions in Academia
The four women stepping down from their positions are Jerrilee K. Mosier at Ivy Tech Community College, Jerrilee K. Mosier at Youngstown State University in Ohio, Lisabeth Chabot at Ithaca College in New York, and Lauren Robel at Indiana University.
Four Women Who Are Stepping Down From High-Level University Positions
The four women who are leaving their current posts are Carolyn Walters at Indiana University, Valerie Hotchkiss at Vanderbilt University. Sarah-Jane Leslie at Princeton University, and Nancy McKenzie Dupont at the University of Mississippi.
Modern Language Association Presents Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award to Susan Gubar
Professor Gubar created groundbreaking works of feminist criticism that uncovered a female literary tradition previously obscured within a traditionally male literary universe.
