Emery Brown has been named an Institute Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The title is the university’s highest faculty honor. Dr. Brown, the Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and Computational Neuroscience, has been a member of the MIT faculty since 2005. Throughout his career, Dr. Brown has made significant contributions to several different areas of neuroscience, including the human circadian clock, neuron signal processing, and the effects of anesthesia on the brain.
Dr. Brown holds a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics, a master’s degree in statistics, a Ph.D. in statistics, and a medical degree, all from Harvard University.
Denise Davis-Maye is the inaugural associate provost for faculty affairs at Albany State University in Georgia. Dr. Davis-Maye most recently served as a professor and chair of the department of social work at Alabama State University. She has more than 30 years of professional social work experience and over 25 years in social work education. Her scholarship focuses on the well-being of girls and women of African ancestry, with particular attention to cultural, community, and familial influences on adolescent development.
An alumna of Clark Atlanta University, Dr. Davis-Maye holds a master’s degree from Hunter College of the City University of New York and a doctorate from the University of Alabama.
Jeffrey Allen Murdock has joined the Yale University faculty as a professor in the practice of sacred music in the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School. He will serve as the associate director of the interdisciplinary program in music and the Black church. Dr. Murdock comes to his new role from the University of Arkansas, where he was a professor of music, director of choral activities, and founding director of the Arkansas Center for Black Music. As a scholar of choral music and music education, he focuses his work on cultural hegemony, culturally responsive pedagogy, social justice, and urban music education.
Dr. Murdock received his bachelor’s degree in music education and his master of music degree in choral conducting from the University of Southern Mississippi. He received his Ph.D. in music education from the University of Memphis.
Shaundra Daily has joined the University of Tennessee faculty as a professor in the College of Communication and Information. In her research, Dr. Daily analyzes, designs, and builds socio-technical systems — the interactions between people, technology, and social structures — to expand participation and achievement in STEM fields. Prior to her new appointment, she was the Cue Family Professor of the Practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University.
Dr. Dailey received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from the Florida A&M University-Florida State University College of Engineering. She holds a second master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the MIT Media Lab.
Maxie Hollingsworth is a new assistant professor in the College of Education at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. Dr. Hollingsworth’s research examines how relationship-based guidance supports first-generation and underserved students while exploring how teacher self-efficacy and attitudes impact instructional practices. She also explores educational identity and cultural capital in the context of personal identity formation, and the impact of technology use on student engagement, achievement, and self-efficacy.
Dr. Hollingsworth is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She received her master of social work degree from Howard University and her educational doctorate from the University of Houston.
