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...Faust seems to have ruled herself out as a candidate for the position, which will be vacated when current President Judith Rodin steps down in June...
Around 1962, Arbus switched from a 35-mm camera to a twin-lens Rolleiflex that produced the weighty figures in a square format that became her trademark. It gave her pimply drag queens the mighty tonnage of Rodin's Balzac. Our predispositions still place pressure upon the images in the hope of making them conform to conventional expectations. This is a dwarf, file under "Curiosity"; this is a retarded child, file under "Compassion." But the pictures keep refusing to fit into those files. In that refusal is the enduring power, both of the pictures and the people...
...been researching the price we pay for our mindlessness and trying to find ways to prevent it. In research with elderly patients at nursing homes, we found that by increasing mindfulness, people actually lived longer. In the best known of these studies, my colleague University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin and I found that when we encouraged mindful decision-making and gave the patients a plant to care for, they were more likely to still be living 18 months later, when we returned for our follow-up study...
...Judith Rodin (on being the only woman at a meeting of Ivy league presidents): I think they went out of their way to make me feel that it was not going to be any different just because I was a woman. And it was the first time in a long time in my career when I was so aware of being a woman. I never thought about it in so many of the other venues in which I traveled, my academic career—obviously I knew I was a woman. But the more senior I became, the less...
...Judith Rodin: I think women’s behavior and men’s behavior, if you put the identical behavior side by side, that that which is called aggressive in women may not be called aggressive in men. And I think we have all experienced that; [there is] a narrower range of what is viewed as acceptable. So I have early in my career, both as a scholar and more recently as a leader of an institution, decided not to worry about that—that I was going to try to be an excellent leader, that the attributes...