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...undergrads—his main focus—he tweaked the concentration requirements. “Here, you can decide your sophomore year that you want to get physics and get a degree,” Professor of Physics Melissa E.B. Franklin says. “That makes it better for women and minorities because there’s not always that same background in math...
During his tenure as chair, he not only increased the proportion of female undergraduates in the department, but also brought Franklin to tenure as the university’s first female physics professor...
...sees all these really, really smart women, and he wants to get them and keep them in physics,” says Franklin, who first came to Harvard as a junior fellow selected by Georgi and others. Though just six women teach in the physics department, that’s light years ahead of other departments at other schools, she says...
...about. And he succeeded because he’s not afraid of making people angry. “He doesn’t have a lot of tact, so if he doesn’t think someone is smart, he’ll just say it,” Franklin says...
...missed Dartmouth free throws later, and feeding off of a frenzied crowd, Shana Franklin threw the most important Harvard dagger of the game—a three-pointer at 4:42 from a Cserny assist that gave the Crimson its first lead since the first half...