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...absorbed what it takes to attract the most promising scientists and provide them with an environment in which they can thrive. Faust was consistently present at Radcliffe science activities, including fellows’ talks and science lectures, and made a point of including prominent scientists in the Dean??s Lecture Series every year. She also committed resources for travel to scientists with laboratories on other campuses and worked with deans to facilitate connections between fellows and Harvard faculty, including arranging lab space at existing laboratories...
...conducted with a firm, but gentle touch. To that end, we hope that Faust is able to shed the labels she has been given—“the woman president,” “the anti-Summers,” “the Radcliffe dean??—and establish a presence and presidency fully her own. In that endeavor, we wish her the best of luck...
...Most insidiously, grading in science courses is notoriously stiffer than in humanities and social science courses. Last month, the College Dean??s Office announced that the number of As and A-minuses awarded to undergraduates last year had crept above the 50 percent mark—a figure which is befuddling to any science concentrator stuck in any one of the numerous courses that curves around a B plus...
...Kirby informed his colleagues that he would create a summer committee to help resuscitate the review. But with Kirby set to resign, little power remained in the dean??s hands...
...Knowles’ selection as interim dean was a last resort. Faculty members advising Bok wanted a permanent dean??a position that Knowles could not fulfill as the then-71-year-old battled prostate cancer—but Bok found no suitable candidate for dean...