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Former University President Lawrence H. Summers’s critics, it seems, should be happily sated: Faust appears to be everything Summers was not. In the stead of a bold albeit tactless social scientist and a former cabinet secretary, Harvard has ensconced a career academic and mid-level administrator culled from the women’s studies henhouse. Where Summers elicited controversy, Faust brings consensus. Summers’ chauvinistic disregard for the humanities will be replaced by the interdisciplinary tolerance of Faust, who “knows people in just about every department on campus...
...Faust has nonetheless gained a reputation as a “scientifically literate” administrator—one who will soon have the responsibility of managing the complicated task of developing a science-focused campus in Allston. She has led the initiative to increase the number of female scientists at Harvard—an effort launched by then-President Lawrence H. Summers after his January 2005 remarks about the “intrinsic aptitude” of women in science.Now, the woman who served as Summers’ troubleshooter is poised to become his successor.According to her friends...
Rudenstine said he was confident in the ability of Faust, a Civil War historian, to lead the University's expansion into Allston and the school's push for new interdisciplinary science initiatives. Some search committee members had expressed interest in appointing a scientist to the post. Rudenstine, however, said that it was more important that the committee select somebody with "genuine intellectual depth and breadth" like Faust...
...Curricular Review and the search for a new dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Faust had been considered a leading candidate for that post, and her selection as president now throws new doubt into the looming dean search. Some have speculated that Harvard will look to a scientist for the Faculty after choosing the third historian in its history to serve as president. —Staff writer Claire M. Guehenno can be reached at guehenno@fas.harvard.edu...
...balance right," says Charles Le Feuvre, chair of the r.a.n.z.c.p.'s Psychotherapy Section, "and it may indeed be the case that things have gone too far away from psychotherapy. It's important that the psychiatrist continues to try to be a humanist as well as a scientist...