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In Memoriam: Mary Ann Horn, 1965-2024

In Memoriam: Mary Ann Horn, 1965-2024

Throughout her career, Dr. Horn researched how applied mathematics can be utilized in the biological life science fields. She held academic and leadership appointments at Case Western University, Vanderbilt University, and the National Science Foundation.

Manya Whitaker Will Be the New Leader of Colorado College

Manya Whitaker Will Be the New Leader of Colorado College

Colorado College executive vice president and chief of staff, Manya Whitaker, has been elevated to interim president effective July 1. Her selection follows the resignation of Colorado College’s first woman of color president, L. Song Richardson.

Four Professionals Appointed to Diversity Positions in Higher Education

Four Professionals Appointed to Diversity Positions in Higher Education

Jeremi London, Sheleta Camadra-Webb, and Alexandra Pirkle are taking on new diversity leadership positions at three prestigious universities.

Grants or Gifts Relating 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.

Four Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Duties

Four Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Duties

The four women faculty members in new roles are Summer Sherburne Hawkins at the Boston College School of Social Work, Erin Calipari at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Vikkie McCarthy at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and Hannah Rodrigue at the University of Nevada Reno.

Four Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Roles at Universities

Four Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Roles at Universities

The women faculty taking on new duties are Mary E. Graham at Syracuse University in New York, Heather Congdon at the University of Maryland Baltimore, Tracey Sharpley-Whiting at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and Maja Husar Holmes at the University of Kansas.

Six Women Scholars Taking on New Faculty Assignments

Six Women Scholars Taking on New Faculty Assignments

The women faculty in new roles are Anne Marie Lennon at the University of Pittsburgh, Michelle Richardson at Coppin State University in Baltimore, Jane Freedman at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Jallicia A. Jolly at Amherst College in Massachusetts, Kristala L. J. Prather at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Michelle Olsen at Virginia Tech.

Kimryn Rathmell Has Been Named Director of the National Cancer Institute

Kimryn Rathmell Has Been Named Director of the National Cancer Institute

Kimryn Rathmell is the Hugh Jackson Professor of Medicine and chair of the department of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Rathmell will become the seventeenth director of the National Cancer Institute and only the second woman to hold this position leading the nation’s fight against cancer.

Six Women Appointed to Administrative Posts at Universities

Six Women Appointed to Administrative Posts at 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.

Ten Women With Current Ties to Academia Named MacArthur Fellows

Ten Women With Current Ties to Academia Named MacArthur Fellows

The Chicago-based MacArthur Foundation has announced the selection of 20 individuals in this year’s class of MacArthur Fellows. Ten women academics are among the 20 new MacArthur Fellows.

Universities Announce New Assignments for Seven Women Faculty Members

Universities Announce New Assignments for Seven Women Faculty Members

Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Biophysics Society Recognizes the Research of Vanderbilt University's Nancy Carrasco

Biophysics Society Recognizes the Research of Vanderbilt University’s Nancy Carrasco

Nancy Carrasco, Joe C. Davis Chair in Biomedical Science and chair of the department of molecular physiology and biophysics at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, is being honored for work to define and characterize the sodium/iodide transporter that is essential for synthesizing thyroid hormone and then translating these findings into important medical applications.

Girl Scout Leader Agenia Walker Clark Will Be the Next President of Fisk University in Nashville

Girl Scout Leader Agenia Walker Clark Will Be the Next President of Fisk University in Nashville

For the past 19 years, Dr. Clark has been CEO of the Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee. Prior to the Girl Scouts, Dr. Clark was the vice president of human resources for the Tennessee Education Lottery Corporation, senior director of human resources at Vanderbilt University, and directed human resources for Canadian telecommunications provider Nortel Networks.

Eleven Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Roles in Higher Education

Eleven Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New Roles in Higher Education

Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Study Finds Women Ask for Raises and Promotions At Similar or Higher Rates Than Men

Study Finds Women Ask for Raises and Promotions At Similar or Higher Rates Than Men

A new study by women scholars at the University of California, Berkeley and Vanderbilt University in Nashville debunks the gender pay gap myth that “women don’t ask for raises.” The study found that women attempt salary negotiations as much or more than men do, but are more likely to be rejected.

Universities Offer New Assignments to Eight Women Scholars

Universities Offer New Assignments to Eight Women Scholars

Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Nine Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New University Duties

Nine Women Scholars Who Are Taking on New University Duties

Here is this week’s roundup of women faculty members who have been appointed to new positions or given new duties at colleges and universities throughout the United States. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

In Memoriam: Gale Aileen Harrison, 1945-2023

In Memoriam: Gale Aileen Harrison, 1945-2023

Dr. Harrison began her teaching career at Floyd Junior College in Rome, Georgia, which is now Georgia Highlands College. In the late 1980s, she joined the political science department at what is now Georgia Southern University in Statesboro

Six Women Scholars Who Have Been Assigned New Roles in Higher Education

Six Women Scholars Who Have Been Assigned New Roles in Higher Education

The six women scholars who are taking on new duties are Preeti Sivasankar at Purdue University in Indiana, Stefanie Johnson at the University of Colorado Boulder, Lynda Gardner at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Lorann Stallones of Colorado State University, Kim Dooley at Texas A&M University, and Laurie Cutting a Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

The American Society of Human Genetics to Honor Vanderbilt University's Nancy Cox

The American Society of Human Genetics to Honor Vanderbilt University’s Nancy Cox

Professor Cox, who joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2015 after teaching at the University of Chicago, has focused her research on developing novel quantitative genetic methods to identify and characterize genetic variations that contribute to common human diseases and related complex traits, including diabetes and psychiatric disorders.

Grants or Gifts Relating 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.

Seven Women Faculty Members Who Are Assuming New Duties at Universities

Seven Women Faculty Members Who Are Assuming New Duties at Universities

Taking on new duties are Lynne McLandsborough at the University of Massachusetts, Melanie E. Loehwing at Mississippi State University, Saida Grundy at Boston University, Linda C. Samuels at Washington University in St. Louis, Beth Belmont at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, Bonnie Dow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and Taryn Loyd at the University of Arkansas.

Seven Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Duties at Major Universities

Seven Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Duties at Major Universities

The women faculty members taking on new roles are Bandana Purkayastha at the University of Connecticut, Paula Austin at Boston University, Kelly Pender at Virginia Tech, Katia Obraczka at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Kari Nadeau at the School of Public Health at Harvard University, Mary Klotman at Duke University in Durham North Carolina, and Megan Saylor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

The American Academy of Religion Honors Vanderbilt University's Yolanda Pierce

The American Academy of Religion Honors Vanderbilt University’s Yolanda Pierce

Yolanda Pierce, who is the new dean of the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, has won the 2023 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. From 2017 to 2023, she wad dean of the Howard University Divinity School.

College of Saint Mary in Omaha Appoints Heather A. Smith as Its Eighth President

College of Saint Mary in Omaha Appoints Heather A. Smith as Its Eighth President

For the past five years, Heather A. Smith, a healthcare administrator, has served as vice president of ambulatory services and previously vice president of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital & Medical Center in Omaha.

Three Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments

Three Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments

Julia Steed will become the academic director of the family nurse practitioner program in the School of Nursing at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Nanfu Wang will join the faculty of New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute as a Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Susan Richmond, an associate professor of art history at Georgia State University, will become the interim associate dean for the College of the Arts at the university.

Vanderbilt University's Hilda McMackin Receives Award for Mentoring in Research Development

Vanderbilt University’s Hilda McMackin Receives Award for Mentoring in Research Development

Hilda McMackin, director of research administration systems and reporting at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, has been recognized with the 2023 Mentoring Award from the National Organization of Research Development Professionals (NORDP).

In Memoriam: Misti Hewatt Yang, 1979-2023

In Memoriam: Misti Hewatt Yang, 1979-2023

Since 2021, Dr. Yang served as the Mellon Assistant Professor of the Public Communication of Science and Technology at Vanderbilt University, where she taught courses such as “The Rhetoric of Technoscience,” “Public Communication of Science,” and “Ethics in Science and Technology Communication.”

Six Women Who Have Been Appointed to University Dean Positions

Six Women Who Have Been Appointed to University Dean Positions

The new deans are Clementina D. Ceria-Ulep at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Jackie Krasas at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Kristina K. Bethea Odejimi at Emory University in Atlanta, Jennifer Allen at Portland State University in Oregon, Tina Freiburger at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Yolanda Pierce at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

Five Women Faculty Members Who Are Assuming New Roles in Higher Education

Five Women Faculty Members Who Are Assuming New Roles in Higher Education

Taking on new assignments are Carla S. Freeman at Emory University in Atlanta, Dina Refki in the Rockefeller Institute of Government of the State University of New York in Albany, Lynne Steuerle Schofield at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, Nicole B. Burwell at North Carolina A&T State University, and Amy Fleming, at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville.

Eight Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Positions in Higher Education

Eight Women Who Have Been Appointed to 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.

New Administrative Duties for Six Women in Higher Education

New Administrative Duties for Six 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. If you have news for our appointments section, please email the information to contact@WIAReport.com.

Five Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments

Five Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments

The five women scholars in new positions or who are taking on new duties are Maggie Han at Auburn University in Alabama, Elizabeth J. Zechmeister at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Misty De Berry in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, Heidi Zinzow at Clemson University in South Carolina, and Crista Johnson-Agbakwu at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Six Woman Scholars Assigned to New Roles or Duties at Colleges and Universities

Six Woman Scholars Assigned to New Roles or Duties at Colleges and Universities

Taking on new assignments are Julianne Grose at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, Emily House at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Michelle Robinson at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Georgia Mansell at Syracuse University in New York, Patricia Smith in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University in New Jersey, and Theresa Law at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Diversity Positions in Higher Education

Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Diversity Positions in Higher Education

Krista L. Walker was named assistant dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion for the College of Nursing at Michigan State University. The Indiana University School of Medicine has named Chemen Neal its first chief diversity officer and Nicole Joseph has been named associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion at Vanderbilt Peabody College of education and human development.