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Faust, a noted Civil War historian, co-chaired the Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering, which was formed in response to the outrage over Summers?? remarks...
From the beginning, media speculation over the Harvard presidential search focused on the possibility that the nine-member search committee might select a female president—better yet, a female scientist—to serve in Summers?? wake...
...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 and colleagues, Faust welcomes the challenge. Walter Licht ’67, the chair of the history department at Penn, where Faust formerly taught, said that she is ready to become Harvard’s first female leader...
...last such academic at the helm of the University. Faust’s predecessor, Summers, was a nationally known political figure, having served as secretary of the Treasury. If she is confirmed by the Board of Overseers, many say Faust will bring a style of leadership starkly different from Summers?? supposed abrasiveness. Summers resigned last spring after a series of bruising public confrontations with members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.“If there are going to be problems they are certainly not going to be the same kind of problems,” Lynn...
...hope, however, that Faust does not arrive at the door of Massachusetts Hall with an unshakeable label as the “anti-Summers??: the woman, the historian, the life-long academic, the gentle administrator...