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...Shirley Ann Jackson, who received a Doctor of Laws degree, is touted as a possible successor to outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers, who departs Harvard after only five years in office. Joining her in the ceremony was famed broadcast journalist Jim Lehrer, who also delivered the keynote Commencement address...
...Shirley Ann Jackson...
...graduate Shirley Ann Jackson has always been a trailblazer: she co-founded the Black Student Union at the university, became the first black woman at MIT to earn a doctoral degree, and also made history as the first black woman in the country to earn a doctorate in physics...
...Ann Coulter's new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, has just been published by Crown Forum. With predictable celerity, it has inspired another multiplatform media conflagration between her admirers and her opponents, some of whom don't seem to understand that controversy doesn't hurt book sales. Coulter, as usual, is using all the exposure to launch more attacks on liberals. TIME's John Cloud, who wrote the magazine's April 2005 cover story on Coulter, caught up with her via e-mail Wednesday night...
...rare that only a few people qualify.”Prominent leaders in higher education today include anthropologist Alison F. Richard, head of the University of Cambridge; Stanford Provost John Etchemendy, a professor of philosophy; University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman; Princeton President Shirley M. Tilghman; and Shirley Ann Jackson, a physicist and the president of Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.Other candidates whose names have been bandied about include Ruth J. Simmons, who, as president of Brown, is the first African-American leader of an Ivy League school. Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow has also been mentioned...