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...Keohane taught at Swarthmore College, Stanford University, and the University of Pennsylvania before serving as president of Wellesley for twelve years. In 1993 she moved on to Duke, where she served as the university’s first female president and presided over one of the largest capital campaigns in the history of higher education...
...process does indeed work-and can generate stable stem cells that go on to develop into eggs and sperm that can produce healthy mice. "It's very exciting and we look forward to all there is to do from here," says Dr. Renée Reijo Pera, director of Stanford University's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine...
...fiscal year 2006, Harvard brought in only $20.9 million in licensing revenue. Meanwhile, Stanford yielded $64.6 million, and MIT earned $48.2 million...
...list dwindled, the search committee flirted with higher education’s top brass: John W. Etchemendy, provost of Stanford; Amy Gutmann ’71, the former Princeton provost who had taken the reins at the University of Pennsylvania; Alison F. Richard, a former Yale provost who now led one of England’s crown jewels, the University of Cambridge; and Shirley M. Tilghman, a molecular biologist who had led Princeton as president for a half-decade. (The committee seemed prepared to violate the unwritten rule against poaching leaders from fellow Ivies—if the right candidate...
...public, he claimed he had “the best position in higher education,” privately telling friends that he did not have any desire to leave Stanford, an institution that he felt already led Harvard in its teaching and research efforts, the source said...