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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...
...leading an institution that is 140 years older than the country.A renowned historian who specializes in 19th century America, 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...
...first challenge—continuing his stellar offensive and defensive performance into this weekend—is a more complicated task...
...from Faust herself.After Summers drew wide criticism in 2005 following comments he made suggesting that women may have a lower “intrinsic aptitude” for science than men, Faust acted as his adviser, ultimately leading a university-wide initiative that led to the creation of two task forces to find means to promote the advancement of women at Harvard. Through the next year, she continued to serve as an adviser to the president, who often looked to her in meetings to gauge his support. Ironically, one of Summers’ biggest legacies might have been to open...
...graduated from Harvard), T. S. Eliot ’09, E.E. Cummings ’15, John L. Ashbery ’49, and Adrienne Rich ’51, being a poet at Harvard—or even a student of poetry—can be a daunting task. Yet, instead of being frightened, many Harvard poets today look to their alumni as a source of motivation. “I think [literary critic] Harold Bloom is responsible for this idea in literary criticism that writers are involved in a Oedipal struggle with their predecessors,” says...