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...much the same way that Americans who don’t live on reservations sometimes discuss vague ancestral ties to indigenous tribes—blacks who have left the inner-city will be talking about how much black blood they have,” he added. Evelynn M. Hammonds, a history of science professor who trained as a physicist and electrical engineer, said that she and her peer group of African-American science scholars “encountered far far more barriers than we ever thought existed.” Hammonds—who is Harvard’s senior...
...Review (HCCR)—perhaps in retrospect, mistakenly, given the Faculty’s disappointing failure to take leadership in this seminal initiative. He has also commissioned a Task Force on Women Faculty and appointed Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies Evelynn M. Hammonds to the new position of senior vice provost for Faculty development and diversity. Most importantly, if we take the discontented faculty members at their word last spring, it has been encouraging to see that the infamously combative Summers has steered clear of high profile controversies that once frequently...
...toward that end came on Feb. 3, when Summers announced the creation of two Faculty task forces to address the dearth of women in science at Harvard. Politically, the announcement was most significant because of the help he had enlisted to facilitate the task forces: Professors Drew Gilpin Faust, Evelynn M. Hammonds, and Barbara J. Grosz, all members of the Faculty and strong critics of Summers’ original remarks. Inside Mass. Hall, staffers hoped that the trio would dispel notions of Summers’ estrangement from his Faculty, according to two people close to the president?...
...This could be a great opportunity to meet some people you wouldn’t otherwise meet.” Though the program has been a collaborative effort between University Hall and WISE, funding has come from the Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity, Evelynn M. Hammonds. Hammonds is also chair of the Task Force on Women Faculty and professor of the history of science and of African and African American studies. WISE and the Task Force on Women Faculty were created earlier this year and charged with increasing the presence of females and minorities...
...three separate portions of his letter, Summers mentioned Professor Evelynn M. Hammonds, who was appointed this summer as the University’s first senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity...