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Much of Bunting-Smith's vision of a facility where women could revive their academic studies came from her experience as a mother. In the '40s, she left her own microbiology work to raise four children while husband Henry Bunting taught at Yale University.
Although she was willing to give up academic interests to raise her children, Bunting-Smith remained active in her local community and its politics, later expressing frustration at the lack of expectations for women in society--particularly in academics.
"The Bunting was so revolutionary at that point that everyone was not convinced," says Louise Donovan, who served as Bunting-Smith's executive assistant for the duration of her presidency. At the time debate raged concerning the legitimacy of Bunting-Smith's vision of working women returning to academic fields...
In part due to its novelty, the Institute received a good deal of media attention early on. Bunting-Smith herself was featured in a fall 1961 Time Magazine cover story when the first 21 artists and scholars at the Institute were granted their first awards, each of up to $3...
Today, 37 years later, 40 Bunting Fellows are selected each year and each is given up to $33,000 to cover all expenses involved in resuming their studies, including the cost of moving to Cambridge and finding new homes. Despite this vast increase in award allotments, Rita Nakashima Brock, current...