I was very sorry to read today that Prof Helen Leach has died. She was a stalwart of the Otago anthropology programme and did really interesting work on the history of food, from ancient to modern times. One of her great projects was to use community cookbooks to trace the evolution of recipes - such fascinating material!

I had the privilege of meeting Helen a few times when I worked at the Hocken, and interviewed her for the history of the university project. She was an intelligent and interesting person and so passionate about her subject.

RIP Helen.

#WomenInAcademia #anthropology #archaeology

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Leach

Nữ giáo sư duy nhất ngành Kinh tế năm 2025 tại Việt Nam là GS Võ Thị Thúy Anh, hiện là Chủ tịch Hội đồng trường Đại học Kinh tế, ĐH Đà Nẵng. #GiáoSư #KinhTế #PhụNữLãnhĐạo #GiáoDục #ViệtNam #VõThịThúyAnh #ĐạiHọcĐàNẵng #HigherEducation #Economics #WomenInSTEM #Leadership #ĐạiHọc #Vietnam #University #STEMEducation #DaNangUniversity #EconomicsProfessor #WomenInAcademia #WomenInLeadership #ChủTịchHộiĐồngTrường

https://vietnamnet.vn/nu-giao-su-duy-nhat-nganh-kinh-te-la-chu-tich-hoi-dong-truong-dai-h

In Trondheim today? Catch Rita McGrath’s lecture "Strategy in Uncertain times."

When: 9:15 @ Dokkhuset

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rita_Gunther_McGrath

#trondheim #insider #innovation #womeninacademia

Supreme Court Upholds Appointment of First Female Vice-Chancellor at AMU

The Supreme Court of India declined to intervene in a petition challenging the appointment of Professor Naima Khatoon as the first female Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (AMU). The petition raised concerns over the involvement of Professor Khatoon’s husband, Professor Mohd. Gulrez, who ... [More info]

A Voice for Oman on the Global Stage: Celebrating Dr. Mythili Kolluru

#AsianTalks #VoiceForOman #AcademicExcellence #CBFSOman #DrMythiliKolluru #ICEDL2025 #GlobalRecognition #EducationLeadership #HigherEducation #NationalCompetitiveness #OmanOnTheGlobalStage #WomenInAcademia #GulfScholars #DistanceLearning #TransformativeEducation #RomeConference2025 #CelebratingExcellence #ResearchForImpact #KnowledgeBeyondBorders #OmanPride #ScholarlyBrilliance

https://theasiantalks.com/a-voice-for-oman-on-the-global-stage-celebrating-dr-mythili-kolluru/

♀️March 8 is International Women's Day. With our interview series “Women @ FIZ”, we want to make the perspectives and careers of women at our institute visible.

First we spoke with lawyer Lea Sophie Singson, who works as a research assistant at FIZ Karlsruhe. She speaks about gender in academia, why it matters that her boss is a woman and how a unique female perspective is necessary in the working world.

Find the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZIMKziBW0k

#march8 #equality #womeninacademia

I am reading Women Leaders in Higher Education: Shattering the Myths (Fitzgerald, 2014) which is excellent so far. I very nearly stood up on a chair in my living room and cheered when I read this quote from Composing a Life by Mary Bateson (which is now also on my reading list...)

Life- or my life anyway- is not a straight line from A to B.

More like A to Q to F to M to ∞

@academicchatter #HigherEd #academia #WomenInScience #WomenInAcademia #leadership #careers

It's a mid-week special on Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein as we review "On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera" (2020) by Elizabeth Bear - and meditate on Lovecraft and cozy horror.

https://deepcuts.blog/2024/10/16/on-safari-in-rlyeh-and-carcosa-with-gun-and-camera-2020-by-elizabeth-bear/

#cthulhu #lovecraft #cozyhorror #horrorlit #cthulhumythos #womeninacademia

Earlier this summer I did this livestream (https://youtu.be/XwdgxMARr9c), in which I ended up finding a lot of examples of simple quasigroups showing up. I took a look at Bruck's 1944 paper on the subject (https://www.ams.org/journals/bull/1944-50-10/S0002-9904-1944-08236-0/S0002-9904-1944-08236-0.pdf), and I saw an unusual pronoun show up: her.

Now there are a few usual suspects for women in early abstract algebra, but not too many. In order of decreasing proximity to quasigroup theory, we have Ruth Moufang (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Moufang), Hanna Neumann (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Neumann), and Emmy Noether (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether). The woman in question was new to me: Harriet Griffin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Griffin).

Strangely, Bruck refers to Griffin as "Miss Griffin" rather than "Dr. Griffin", although he references her PhD thesis work. I'm not sure what his intent was in specifying her gender.

In any case, I'm always happy to discover another woman who was an early pioneer in non-associative algebra.

#math #algebra #WomenInSTEM #WomenInAcademia #AbstractAlgebra #UniversalAlgebra