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Ten Women With Current Ties to Academia Named MacArthur Fellows
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation recently announced the 20 latest recipients in its fellowship program, commonly referred to as “genius grants.” MacArthur fellows receive a grant of...
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Cathy Garzio Named Chief Operating Office for Weill Cornell Medicine
Cathy Garzio has been appointed executive vice provost and chief operating officer of Weill Cornell Medicine, effective in February. In her new role at Weill Cornell Medicine, Garzio will oversee a...
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University of Chicago’s Tina Post Wins Best Book Award
Tina Post, an assistant professor of English at the University of Chicago, recently received the Best Book Prize from the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present. She was honored for her...
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A Trio of Women Scholars Who Have Been Named to Endowed Chairs
Orit Bashkin has been named the Mabel Greene Myers Professor in the department of Near Eastern languages and civilizations at the University of Chicago. As a historian specializing on the intellectual,...
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More “Hidden Figures” Discovered at the University of Chicago
On his first trip to the U.S. in 1921, Albert Einstein visited Yerkes Observatory, located in Wisconsin and run by the University of Chicago. Those present gathered for a photograph with the telescope....
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Three Women Who Have Been Appointed to Endowed Chairs
Liliya Yatsunyk was appointed to the James H. Hammons Chair of Chemistry at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Her research program is focused on unusual DNA structures which may act as therapeutics...
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In Memoriam: Julie Saville, 1947-2023
Julie Saville, an associate professor emerita in the department of history at the University of Chicago, died on December 16. She was 76 years old. Saville spent her early childhood in Tuscaloosa,...
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Angela Olinto Will Be the Next Provost at Columbia University in New York City
Angela V. Olinto will be the next provost at Columbia University in New York City, effective April 1. Professor Olinto is currently serving as dean of the Division of the Physical Sciences and the...
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Four Women at the University of Chicago Named to Endowed Professorships
Emily Rogalski has been named the Rosalind Franklin Ph.D. professor in the department of neurology. She joined the University of Chicago in 2023 to oversee the university’s Healthy Aging &...
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Ruby Mendenhall Named Poet Laureate for the City of Urbana, Illinois
The Urbana Arts and Culture Program has appointed Ruby Mendenhall, the Kathryn Lee Baynes Dallenbach Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as Poet...
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