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With the challenge of hauling the program back from the depths now behind them, the returning members of the Crimson can concentrate on the team’s next task, one unprecedented in school history. Harvard has never won the Ivy League, and its only appearance in the NCAA tournament came...
...political landscape is the kind of confident, bold leadership that is capable of looking honestly at the historical record; of acknowledging errors, failures and even great crimes; and of then making amends so that society can realign its official narratives with the truth. For it is no easy task for a society to live in a healthy fashion while enmeshed in a fabric of lies...
...Harvard advances opportunities for women in science and in academic life more generally. I continue to hope that we can draw on all the energy currently around these issues to ensure that Harvard is at the forefront of progress. The leadership of Professor Grosz, as chair of the new task force on women in science, and of Professor Friend, as chair of the chemistry department, will be critical toward that...
...stand at a moment where we want to change the culture and composition of our universities,” said Evelynn M. Hammonds, a professor of African and African American Studies who chairs the Task Force on Women Faculty that University President Lawrence H. Summers appointed last month...
Hammonds’ committee, along with the Task Force on Women in Science that Summers also formed, is slated to offer concrete solutions to help raise the small number of tenured women. As of this January, 19 percent of the 463 tenured members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were women...