Two professors honored for mentoring, leadership

Recipients of the 22nd annual Sarah Goddard Power Awards have committed their careers to enriching women's lives, and their mentorship and leadership have provided inspiration for others to follow, according to the selection committee.

The Academic Women's Caucus (AWC) will honor Carroll Smith-Rosenberg and Kate Barald in a ceremony at 4 p.m. Feb. 14 in the Michigan League.

Awarded by the AWC annually since 1984, the award honors Sarah Goddard Power—a former regent who was a strong advocate for women within the University. It highlights significant achievement of faculty members who have contributed to the betterment of women in the areas of distinguished leadership, scholarship and other activities related to their professional lives.

Barald, professor of biomedical engineering, and of cell and developmental biology, is associate director of the Program in the Biomedical Sciences. As a mentor, she has trained numerous women in the undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral fellows programs. Many have gone on to distinguished careers in scientific fields. In addition, her mentorship has helped female students in grades ranging from elementary school to high school, who have pursued higher education studies in science, engineering or medicine.

Barald has earned six Instructor of the Year awards from the School of Dentistry for "outstanding ability as an instructor in the communication of knowledge and stimulation of interest in her area of study," her award citation says.

"She has completely transformed my undergraduate experience," says one of her nominators. "I have not met anyone who even comes close to Kate's record of improving the lot of women in science."

Smith-Rosenberg is the Mary Frances Berry Collegiate Professor in the Department of History, and a professor in the departments of American Culture and Women's Studies. Nominators call Rosenberg a groundbreaking researcher whose work has furthered the understanding of women.

Her work in the fields of women's and gender studies has changed the public's understanding of gender, sexuality and politics in American history and contemporary life, the award says. Her research has resulted in extensive publications that have won her numerous fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies.

Smith-Rosenberg has served on committees in the Department of History, the American Culture Program, the Women's Studies Program, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Since 1998, she also has coordinated the Atlantic Studies Initiative, a multi-departmental, interdisciplinary graduate studies initiative.

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