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According to The Washington Post, Shalala had already declined to be considered for the presidency of Brown University. Brown announced Nov. 9 that former Smith College President Ruth Simmons would fill the post...
...hundreds and hundreds of nominations including many people in public office, but Ruth Simmons was our first and only choice for president," said Brown's Executive Vice President of Public Affairs and University Relations Laura Freid...
...increase in childhood obesity, and the demonstrated involvement of fat cell-derived leptin in initiating pubertal events. Next time, I hope you will do your readers a favor by presenting such stories in a more realistic context, rather than alarming them on the basis of weak scientific evidence. RUTH KAVA, DIRECTOR OF NUTRITION American Council on Science and Health New York City
APPOINTED. RUTH SIMMONS, 55, president of Smith College; to the presidency of Brown University; in Providence, R.I. The youngest of 12 in a Texas sharecropper's family, she is the first black president of an Ivy League institution...
Until recently, three Ivy League universities were searching for new presidents. Now there are only two. Last week, Brown University made a superb choice when it picked Ruth J. Simmons, a Harvard alum and current president of Smith College, to head the institution...