Dijana Ihas, an associate professor in the ɳ University Music Department, was honored as Oregon Music Educator of the Year by the Oregon Music Education Association at its annual meeting in January.
A 1942 headline in The Campus, the undergraduate newspaper of City College of New York, set the tone: “First Female Invades Tech School Faculty,” it blared. Cecilie Froehlich led ɳ's math department until 1970 and was an outspoken advocate for recruiting women into the fields of math and engineering.