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“The hope is that Harvard is able to identify the best junior faculty and really provide them with the resources, environment, and mentorship needed to make them incredibly successful and ultimately senior faculty,” says Natural Sciences Professor Hopi E. Hoekstra.
The natural sciences is an example of a field with traditionally low female representation—and it has been making concerted efforts to ensure that female faculty stay on track to become full-fledged professors.
While only 12 percent of the natural science senior faculty Hokestra entered is comprised of women, her ascension to the top of the tenure ladder shows that female academics—once marginalized—are now beginning to balance the gender skew.
Women comprise almost a third of the junior faculty in the natural sciences—a promising figure that stands to increase the number of female senior faculty members in the future.
Public health: Globalization is a public-health hazard. While the recent H1N1 pandemic was non-lethal, there is a disturbing likelihood that either a natural, fatal pandemic will occur or a biological weapon will be unleashed in the near future; global travel and trade patterns make it virtually impossible to...