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...other appointment news, Harvard gained three new tenured women, all through internal promotions, raising the number of female full professors on the roughly 350-member faculty to 21. The lucky three were: Diana L. Eck, a specialist on Indian culture and religion: Nancy E. Kleckner '68, a biochemist; and Susan R. Suleiman, an authority on modern French literature...
...formed Women in Science. After a turnout of 75 undergraduates for the group's opening dinner, attendance for periodical meals with women faculty has dropped to about 15. Yet Concus says she thinks the organization has facilitated greater contact between women undergraduate and faculty scientists such as Nancy E. Kleckner '68, professor of biochemistry, and Margaret J. Geller, lecturer on astronomy, both of whom have appeared at question and answer dinners...
Aside from her research, Kleckner teaches two courses. Biochemistry 110b, "Molecular Genetics, and Biochemists 156, "Gene Regulation," Which covers several topics in molecular genetics. In these courses, she works with both graduate students and undergraduates and she also advises students conducting advanced research...
...undergraduate, Kleckner concentrated in Biology and after graduating in 1968 she enrolled at MIT for graduate and postdoctoral work. Much of the work she participated in contributed to the upsurge of interest among biochemists in research on transposons...
...Harvard hired Kleckner, now 36 years old, as an assistant professor and promoted her to associate professor a few years later. She was drawn to Harvard and wants to stay here, she says, because of the quality of students and faculty...