Word: zuber
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...Grosz was named Radcliffe’s dean of science. Colleagues said she has since been instrumental in luring leading scientists away from their labs to Radcliffe. Recent science fellows include renowned physicist Lisa Randall and Maria Zuber, the first woman to lead a science department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...successful science program, according to Maria T. Zuber, a geophysicist who was one of the first science fellows, is that Faust and Grosz were “smart enough not to make a one-size-fits-all” program. Instead, they listened to potential fellows’ concerns and worked hard to accommodate them individually. Zuber divided her time between the Radcliffe Fellows and the Harvard Department of Earth and Planetary Science...
...English and the Humanities, named her willingness to “democratically” listen “to a whole range of people” among the qualities that make her “eminently suited to leading, in particular, an academic community.” Fellows, including Zuber, similarly commented that Faust’s approach to problems is to listen, and that she is notably open to different viewpoints and encourages dissenting opinions...