Dr. Aiken is the founding director of the the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing. She has conducted extensive research on nurse's education and work environments, providing the foundation for modern staffing policies around the world.
At Florida State University, Dr. Cook conducts research with the department of psychology and the Learning Systems Institute on topics relating to children's development of skills that underlie their long-term academic success. In addition to her own research, she has been advocate for advancing access to healthcare, childcare, and parental leave for other FSU postdocs.
Tupur Chatterjee of Tulane University, Kelley Conway of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Jennifer Holt and Patrice Petro of the University of California, Santa Barbara have all been honored for their scholarly contributions to the field of cinema and media studies.
Dr. McCormick's award-winning book, The Last Door: A History of Torture in Mexico's War Against Subversives, examines how the Mexican government used torture to suppress dissent in the 1970s.
Originally trained as a chemist, Dr. Wilson held a wide range of academic and administrative roles at several universities before becoming president of Radcliffe College in 1989. She retired in 1999 when the merger of Radcliffe College with Harvard University was completed.
One of the nation's leading scholars in the field of legal evidence, Dr. Mnookin has served as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2022. She is slated to become the next president of Columbia University in July.
Eight women scholars affiliated with higher educational institutions in the United States were recently presented with awards at the 139th annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Chicago.
Dr. Scott was the first Black woman dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing. Originally set to retire in June 2026, she moved up her retirement date for health reasons, ultimately passing less than a week after stepping down from her role.
Scholars from the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered gender disparities in news media coverage of scientific research, with women-led papers being significantly less likely to be cited by the media. When women's research is cited, it is more likely to be featured by local outlets and liberal-leaning outlets.
Dr. Rossiter conducted extensive research on the contributions of women scientists in the U.S. during the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries. Discovering many of these women's findings were attributed to their male colleagues, Dr. Rossiter coined the term "the Matilda effect" to describe the bias against acknowledging the achievements of women in STEM whose work is attributed to their male colleagues..
The professors that have been appointed to endowed faculty positions are Michelle Marincel Payne at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Indiana, Heather Gerken at Yale Law School, and Line Roald at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The professors selected for new positions are Jamie Taylor of Bryn Mawr College, Jill Sible of Virginia Tech, Bethany Neilson of Utah State University, Jessica Calarco of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ann Fisher-Wirth of the University of Mississippi, Miechelle McKelvey of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and Maura Rhodes of Sacred Heart University in Connecticut.
