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Patricia A. King, a Georgetown professor who helped pioneer the study of bioethics and law, was elected yesterday as the first African-American woman on the Harvard Corporation, the University’s top governing board.King will replace Conrad K. Harper, the board’s first black male, who resigned in August amid growing discontent with University President Lawrence H. Summers’ comments on women and minorities. In a telephone interview yesterday from her office at the Georgetown Law Center, King said, “In my experience, times like these and troubles like these can often lead...
...Baker Nye Greenblatt and a senior trustee for the George F. Baker Trust, a $15 million fund established through the will of his grandfather that gives charitable gifts to medical and educational organizations.In addition to making significant donations to Harvard, Baker also contributed to Columbia University, Dartmouth University, and Georgetown University.In the 1960s, Baker helped found the Quebec Labrador Mission, which took American teenagers to teach at Canadian fishing villages, Aisner said. Baker was also involved with several other institutions, including the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, the New York Zoological Society, and the Woods Hole Sea Education Association on Cape...
...national student group Students Taking Action Now: Darfur (STAND).Over the weekend, STAND elected eight members to its national executive committee, launched a network connecting students fighting Darfur genocide, and kicked off a campaign to urge national politicians to take action on the issue.Students from Harvard, Brandeis University, Georgetown University, and Wellesley College organized the anti-genocide conference, which brought college and high school students from around the country. They came to attend workshops and organize a plan to fight the genocide in Darfur region of Sudan, in which over 400,000 have died and 450 villages have been destroyed.Patrick...
...think it’s a tribute to all of us as individuals, as well as to diversity. It reflects the changes in higher education since I was in law school and since I first became a professor." She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1969 and joined the Georgetown Law faculty...
...worked as a lawyer in the federal government after graduating from the Law School, and served as deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department’s civil division from 1980 to 1981. Since taking her appointment at Georgetown, King has served on several national and government advisory groups studying biomedical issues ranging from genetic research to experimentation on human subjects...