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Interim Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Barbara J. Grosz will continue on as the Institute’s permanent dean, President Drew G. Faust announced yesterday. Over six months in the making, the decision is the fourth in a series of deanship appointments Faust was posed to make when she took over the presidency last summer...
...Grosz, a professor of natural sciences and a leading computer scientist, was recommended to Faust by a 12-person advisory committee made up of former Radcliffe fellows and professors from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate School of Education, and Harvard Law School and chaired by University Provost Steven E. Hyman...
...Bhabha described a national search, in which the committee sat down with multiple candidates face-to-face, some of them more than once. But the Humanities Center director said ultimately the question was “what would be the best fit for Radcliffe,” and Grosz stood out as “a scientist who is interested in the arts...
...Grosz said she was alerted to the decision last week and met with Faust, who made the announcement by e-mail yesterday morning. At a reception at Radcliffe yesterday afternoon, Faust and Grosz spoke before a crowd of alumnae, faculty, a number of Grosz’s students, and Radcliffe fellows and staff...
...Grosz told The Crimson after the event that when she was first tapped to serve as interim dean, she told Faust that she would be active in the position, which she assumed on July...