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Computer scientist Barbara J. Grosz, dean of science at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, has been tapped to lead Radcliffe as interim dean, President-elect Drew G. Faust announced on Friday...
...These are very exciting times at Harvard—extraordinarily so for cross-disciplinary efforts—and I look forward to being part of the team that will work with Drew and Provost [Steven E.] Hyman to advance the University's ambitious agenda," Grosz, the Higgins professor of natural sciences, said in the statement...
...Grosz, currently dean of science at Radcliffe, will take office on July 1 after Faust, Radcliffe’s current leader, assumes Harvard’s presidency...
...Grosz chaired a task force focused on increasing the representation of women across the science and engineering fields in the wake of controversial comments by former University President Lawrence H. Summers. Summers suggested that biological differences might partially account for the underrepresentation of females in the top tiers of those fields...
...Grosz's appointment is the first of several major appointments for Faust. Faust must still name leaders for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, and the Graduate School of Design...