Breaking News
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Patricia Kunz Howard Is the New Leader of the Emergency Nurses Association
Jan. 16, 2019 - Patricia Kunz Howard, the University of Kentucky HealthCare enterprise director for emergency services, has been named president of the Emergency Nurses Association. She is the first person in the history of the association to be elected president twice. -
Kimberly Ballard-Washington Selected to Lead Savannah State University in Georgia
Jan. 9, 2019 - Ballard-Washington currently serves as associate vice chancellor for legal affairs for the University System of Georgia. Ballard-Washington will become interim president on July 1 upon the retirement of Cheryl Davenport Dozier. Dr. Dozier had led Savannah State University since 2011. -
Stacia Haynie Appointed Provost and Executive Vice President at Louisiana State University
Jan. 9, 2019 - Dr. Haynie has been serving as interim provost. Earlier, Dr. Haynie was dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and is the J.W. Annison Jr. Family Alumni Professor in the department of political science. She joined the faculty at Louisiana State University in 1990. - More from Breaking News
Research & Studies
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Study Finds Academic Engineering Remains Largely the Domain of White Men
Jan. 9, 2019 - The study found that from 2001 to 2015, the number of women faculty members at U.S. medical schools increased by 34 percent. But the number of women faculty members in schools of engineering increased by only 4 percent from 2006 to 2014. -
UCSF Study Finds a Genetic Explanation for Women’s Longevity Edge Over Men
Jan. 9, 2019 - In most areas of the world, women tend to outlive men. A new study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco has come up with a genetic explanation for the gap in life expectancy. -
University of Alabama Birmingham Study Finds a Racial Disparity in Stroke Risk for Women
Jan. 9, 2019 - The researchers believe it is the first study to evaluate whether the stroke risk in men and women at a particular age is similar for White men and women compared to Black men and women. - More from Research & Studies
Appointments
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New Duties for Eight Women Scholars in Academia
Jan. 10, 2019 - 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. -
Women Appointed to Dean Positions at Four Universities
Jan. 10, 2019 - The new deans are Kimberly Mutcherson at Rutgers Law School in Camden, New Jersey, Hannah Carter at the University of Maine Cooperative Extension, Linda Kern at Brenau University in Gainesville, Georgia, and Kimberly Foster at Tulane University in New Orleans. -
Ten Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Posts in Higher Education
Jan. 10, 2019 - Here is this week’s roundup of women who have been appointed to new administrative positions at colleges and universities throughout the United States. - More from Appointments
Honors & Awards
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Ann Merchant Boesgaard Wins Lifetime Achievement Award From the American Astronomical Society
Jan. 10, 2019 - Dr. Boesgaard was honored at the society's semi-annual meeting in Seattle on January 8 for her work on light-element abundances to test Big Bang nucleosynthesis and for her research on stellar structure and stellar evolution. -
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Revokes Honor for Professor Angela Davis
Jan. 10, 2019 - In September of 2018, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s board of directors selected Angela Davis to receive the Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award at its annual gala in February. That decision has now been changed and the event has been cancelled. Dr. Davis believes her support of Palestinian rights prompted -
Trident University’s Leandra Hernandez Wins Two Awards From the National Communication Association
Jan. 3, 2019 - Leandra Hernandez, a professor in the College of Health and Human Services at Trident University in Cypress, California, received two awards for her scholarship at the annual conference of the National Communication Association that was held recently in Salt Lake City. - More from Honors & Awards
Other Recent Articles
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In Memoriam: Shirley Jo DuBois Carey, 1936-2019 [1.16.2019]
Dr. Carey taught and conducted research at Emory University School of Nursing for 27 years. In 1976 she assumed responsibility for training clinical nurse specialists in maternal-child health. Her efforts helped create the nurse midwifery, neonatal/perinatal, and child health programs at the nursing school.
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University of Virginia Law School Team Aids Legal Effort to Improve Health Care at a Women’s Prison [1.14.2019]
Alumni and students from the University of Virginia School of Law were on a legal team that recently won an injunction against officials at the Virginia Department of Corrections that mandates improve healthcare for women at the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Virginia.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [1.14.2019]
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [1.14.2019]
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
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Stetson University Receives Funding for Science Camp for Girls and Other Underrepresented Youths [1.14.2019]
The Nina B. Hollis Research Impact Awards provide grants for Stetson research projects that explore ways to improve preschool through high school educational outcomes for girls and other youth who are underrepresented in mathematics and computer science.
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In Memoriam: Bernice Sandler, 1928-2019 [1.14.2019]
Bernice Sandler was often referred to as the “godmother of Title IX.” When she applied for her first job in academia, she was told she came “on too strong for a woman.”
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Scholar Claims Wichita State University Retracted a Job Offer After She Revealed She Was Pregnant [1.14.2019]
The plaintiff, now a visiting scholar at Oberlin College in Ohio, claims that she was offered a job at Wichita State. After she had mentioned she was pregnant and inquired about childcare facilities on campus, the job offer was retracted, according to the lawsuit.
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In Memoriam: Tasia Smith, 1986-2018 [1.11.2019]
Tasia Smith was the Evergreen Assistant Professor of Counseling Psychology and Human Services at the University of Oregon. Only 32 years old at the time of her death, Dr. Smith had joined the faculty at the University of Oregon in 2016.
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Two Women Scholars Call for Greater Attention to Gender Differences in Opioid Use Disorder [1.11.2019]
The authors of a commentary in the journal Biology of Sex Differences note that women are more likely than men to be prescribed and use opioid analgesics and that women experience pain and the effects of opioids differently than men. Also, women tend to develop addictions more quickly than men.
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In Memoriam: Susan West Marmagas, 1967-2018 [1.11.2019]
Susan West Marmagas was director of the master of public health degree program and associate professor of practice in the department of population health sciences at Virginia Tech and instructor at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke.
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Three Women Who Are Retiring From High-Level Posts at Colleges and Universities [1.11.2019]
Susan Grant has retired as director of university housing at North Carolina State University. Judith L. Bonner, provost at Mississippi State University, and Kathy Hart, president of San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, California, announced that they will step down later this year.
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Coppin State University President Maria Thompson to Step Down at the End of the Academic Year [1.9.2019]
Maria Thompson,the first woman president of Coppin State University in Baltimore, Maryland, has announced she will retire at the end of the academic year after overcoming recent health challenges. She became president of Coppin State University in 2015.
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In Memoriam: Gellestrina DiMaggio, 1923-2018 [1.9.2019]
Professor DiMaggio joined the faculty at the University of Massachusetts as a nursing instructor in 1954. An expert in maternal-child nursing, she and three other women were the first faculty members in what later became the College of Nursing.
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Four Women Awarded Tenure and Promoted to Associate Professor at Williams College in Massachusetts [1.7.2019]
Williams College, the highly rated liberal arts institution in Williamstown, Massachusetts, has promoted four women to the rank of associate professor. They have also been granted tenure. The four women are Julie Blackwood in mathematics, Jessica Fisher in English, Aparna Kapadia in history, and Anjuli F. Raza Kolb in English.
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Five Women Faculty Members Who Are Taking on New Assignments [1.7.2019]
Taking on new roles are Monica A. Coleman at the University of Delaware, Mimi Pipino at Ursuline College in Pepper Pike, Ohio, Juliet Koss at Scripps College in Claremont, California, Hilary Appel at Claremont McKenna College in California, and Rhea Datta at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
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Southern Illinois University Students Investigate German Women’s Resistance to the Nazi Regime [1.7.2019]
The students are translating into English a set of biographies that were gathered for an exhibit by the German Resistance Research Council in Frankfurt. Until now, these stories have never been available to non-German readers.
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Online Articles of Interest to WIAReport Readers [1.7.2019]
Each week, Women in Academia Report will provide links to online articles that may be of interest to our readers. Here are this week’s selections.
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Grants or Gifts Relating to Women in Higher Education [1.7.2019]
Here is this week’s news of grants and gifts that may be of particular interest to women in higher education.
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Recent Books of Interest to Women Scholars [1.7.2019]
Women in Academia Report regularly publishes a list of new books that may be of interest to our readers. Here are the latest selections.
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Barnard College and Columbia University Team Up for Accelerated Degree Program [1.4.2019]
Barnard College, the highly selective liberal arts college for women in New York City, has announced an accelerated program where women students can earn a bachelor’s degree at Barnard and a master of public health degree at Columbia University in just five years.
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Stephens College Evolves Its Admission Policies on Transgender Students [1.4.2019]
Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, recently announced that the college would now consider applications for admission from students “who were not born female, but who identify and live as women.”
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Dorcas Davis Bowles to Serve as Provost at Clark Atlanta University [1.3.2019]
Dr. Bowles served as provost at Clark Atlanta University from 2003 to 2008 and she served as dean of the university’s School of Social Work on three different occasions. Earlier in her career, Dr. Bowles was a professor and acting dean of the School of Social Work at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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A Pair of Women Scholars Appointed to Positions as Deans at Universities in New England [1.3.2019]
Juli Wade was appointed dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the largest academic unit at the University of Connecticut and Anne P. Massey was named the next dean of the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Both women will take on their new duties this coming summer.
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