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Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to New Positions in Higher Education Relating to Diversity
Dina Zavala has been named the inaugural vice president for inclusion, equity, and community at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Altheia Richardson has been named chief diversity officer at Newberry College in South Carolina and Monae Roberts is the inaugural chief diversity officer for the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California, Davis.
Linda Mills Appointed the Seventeenth President of New York University
Dr. Mills has been serving as vice chancellor and senior vice provost for global programs and university life at NYU. Dr. Mills is also the Lisa Ellen Goldberg Professor of Social Work, Public Policy, and Law and has served as the executive director of the NYU Center on Violence and Recovery. Dr. Mills’ principal areas of scholarly focus are trauma, bias, and domestic violence.
Deb Niemeier to Receive the Franklin Institute’s Bower Award and Prize for Achievement in Science
The Bower Award, which comes with a $250,000 cash prize, honors Professor Niemeier for “pioneering the advancement and application of knowledge at the intersections among infrastructure, environment, public health, and equity through groundbreaking research on transportation systems and climate-related hazards.”
Ellen Granberg Will Be the First Woman President of George Washington University
Dr. Granberg is a sociologist who currently serves as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. Before coming to RIT in 2018, she was a professor of sociology, department chair, associate provost for faculty affairs, and senior associate provost at Clemson University in South Carolina.
Six Women Who Are Taking on New Administrative Duties in Higher Education
Taking on new administrative jobs are Cigdem Talgar at Tufts University in Massachusetts, Stacey Bradley at the University of South Carolina, Ahyana King at Haverford College in Pennsylvania, Amy Armstrong at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Jennifer McCarrel at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, and Tammy Kenber at the University of California, Davis
Carol Folt Named Chair of the Association of American Universities
Carol L. Folt became the 12th president of the University of Southern California on July 1, 2019. She served as chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from July 2013 to January 2019. Dr. Folt’s career in higher education began as a professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
Nine Women Who Have Been Appointed to New Administrative Positions 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. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.
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.
Five Women Scholars Awarded the Wolf Prize
First awarded in 1978, the Wolf Prize is awarded in the scientific fields of medicine, agriculture, mathematics, chemistry, and physics, as well as art categories. The prizes include a monetary award of $100,000.
Princeton’s Bonnie Bassler Chosen to Receive the 2022 Prize Medal From the Microbiology Society
The Prize Medal from the Microbiology Society is awarded annually “to an outstanding microbiologist who is a global leader in their field and whose work has had a far-reaching impact beyond the discipline of microbiology.” Dr. Bassler will be honored at the society’s annual conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in April.
Carole Goldsmith Appointed Chancellor of the State Center Community College District in Fresno, California
Dr. Goldsmith has been serving as the president of Fresno City College, the largest campus of the system. Earlier, Dr. Goldsmith served as president of West Hills College Coalinga for nearly four years. Prior to that, Dr. Goldsmith held the office of vice chancellor of educational services and workforce development at West Hills for four years.
New Women Deans at Five Colleges and Universities
The new deans are Weiping Wu at Columbia University in New York City, Jennifer Faison Kelly at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, Lisa Macklin at Emory Univerity in Atlanta, Johannah Williams at Nashville State Community College in Tennessee, and Susan Murin at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine.
Five Women Scholars Who Have Been Selected to Take on New Duties
Taking on new assignments are Jill Irvine at the University of Vermont, Charreau Bell, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Meagen Rosenthal at the University of Mississippi, Kerry Lee at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, and Anita Oberbauer at the University of California, Davis.
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.
Universities Announce the Appointments of Nine Women to Dean Positions
The nine women who have been appointed to university dean positions are Muge Akpinar-Elci, Kathryn Chval, Carroll Ann Trotman, Sharon E. Milligan, Susan Ettner, Diane Rowland, Shannon Collier-Tenison, Estella Atekwana, and Colleen L. Barry.
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.
In Memoriam: Patricia Ann Kearney, 1943-2020
In her 28-year career at the University of California, Davis from 1974 to 2002, Pat Kearney was involved in every aspect of student housing, ultimately serving as the executive director of Student Housing and Financial Aid.
The First Woman to Be Honored With the World Agriculture Prize
Pamela Ronald, distinguished professor in the department of plant pathology at the University of California, Davis, has been named a 2020 World Agriculture Prize laureate by the Global Confederation of Higher Education Associations for Agricultural and Life Sciences.
New Assignments for Five Women Scholars at Major Universities
Taking on new duties are Nancy Cox at the University of Kentucky, Tonya Mitchell-Spradlin at Pennsylvania State University, Kristen H. Lagattuta at the University of California, Davis, Shatema Threadcraft at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and Tammy Kahrig at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.
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.
In Memoriam: Vicki Cassman, 1957-2020
Vicki Cassman a former professor of art conservation at the University of Delaware. Earlier in her career, she taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Eight Women Who Have Been Appointed to Diversity Posts at Colleges and Universities
At some colleges and universities, a hiring freeze has been enacted due to the pandemic. But with the world’s new focus on racism and social justice, the hiring of diversity and inclusion officers at colleges and universities remains at a brisk pace.
Seven Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Assignments 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.
Four Women in Academia Who Are Stepping Down From Their University Positions
The women who are stepping down at Maura E. Hagan at Utah State University, Julie Barrett Heffington at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Lenore D. Miller at George Washington University, and Jennifer Sinclair Curtis at the University of California, Davis.
Mary Croughan Is the New Provost at the University of California, Davis
Dr. Croughan has been serving as a professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. From 1987 to 2010, Dr. Croughan served as a faculty member in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
Michigan State’s Mariah Meek Honored by the Society for Conservation Biology
Dr. Meek, who joined the faculty at Michigan State in 2016 after teaching at the University of California, Davis, is being honored for her outstanding contributions to the conservation of marine and freshwater ecosystems using genomic data.
In Memoriam: Anne Hornickel Yuska, 1956-2020
Anne Yuska was the former program director of the NorthStar STEM Alliance at the University of Minnesota. She retired in 2019 after serving on the staff at the university fo a dozen years.
In Memoriam: Karen L. Daniel, 1957-2019
Karen L. Daniel, professor emerita of law at Northwestern University and the former director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the university, was killed when she was struck by a pick-up truck while she was walking her dog in Oak Park, Illinois.
New Assignments for Nine Women Scholars at Colleges and Universities
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.
Southern Methodist University in Dallas Names Its Next Provost
Dr. Elizabeth Loboa is a biomedical engineer. She is currently vice chancellor for strategic partnerships and dean and Ketchum Professor of the College of Engineering at the University of Missouri. Earlier, she taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and North Carolina State University.
Elizabeth Spiller to Be the Next Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer at the University of Nebraska
Since 2017, Dr. Spiller has served as dean of the College of Letters and Science at the University of California, Davis. Earlier, Professor Spiller served as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. She will begin her new job at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in March.
In Memoriam: Karen Roth, 1956-2019
A native of La Crosse, Wisconsin, Roth began her career at the University of California, Davis in 1986 as the assistant director of residential life in the Office of Student Housing. She left Davis in 2006 to teach at Oregon State University-Cascades and then was director of diversity at Central Oregon Community College.
Study Finds Men Are Less Likely Than Women to Support Gender Equality
Support for gender equality has increased consistently over the last four decades, with a slowdown only in the 1990s. The last year of the survey, 2016, showed the highest rates of feelings of egalitarianism for almost all demographic groups.
In Memoriam: Louise H. Kellogg, 1959-2019
Louise Kellogg was a professor in the department of earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Davis. As a researcher, Dr. Kellogg worked on a planetary scale, developing 3D modeling tools to visualize the flows within Earth’s mantle that shape our planet and its environment.
