MIT Selects Its First Female President
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday named Susan Hockfield as its first female president, a breakthrough for the world-renowned school that has churned out more than 50 Nobel prizewinners but which ranks below the national average for its percentage of female students.
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Harvard University was expected to name historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first woman president on Sunday, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers and his tumultuous five-year tenure.
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Currently provost at Yale, Hockfield will be the first woman and the first biologist to head the Institute.
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A lack of women in academic computer science positions as well as barriers to corporate advancement is creating a talent vacuum in the U.S., according to speakers at a conference on emerging technology taking place this week at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Leading candidates in the race for the November  2008 U.S. presidential election are seeking to become the first  woman, first black, first Mormon or oldest first-term president  to occupy the White House.
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Indian lawmakers have selected the nation's first female president in a vote seen as a symbolic victory for women contending with widespread discrimination, election officials said Saturday.
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For more than a decade, academics and technology executives have been frowning at the widening gender gap in computer science. Everyone has a theory, but no one has managed to attract many more women.
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Sudbury&#39;s Betty Zheng, a senior assistant captain on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology women&#39;s ice hockey team, will always remember MIT&#39;s Dec. 3 game against Chatham (Pa.
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A Harvard expert assesses the risks and rewards for the schoolâs first female president.
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When it comes to hatching new biotechnology ideas, who's number one? It's Harvard. No wait, it's MIT.
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India looked set Thursday to get its first woman president after a vote by lawmakers, but doubts remained as to whether the 72-year-old -- dogged by a slew of scandals -- was fit to assume the post.
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India chose its first female president Saturday in an election hailed as a victory for women in a country where gender discrimination is deep-rooted and widespread.
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The United States will have a female president next year &#151; on the Fox TV series "24."
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Harvard University on Sunday named historian Drew Gilpin Faust as its first female president, ending a lengthy and secretive search to find a successor to Lawrence Summers and his tumultuous five-year tenure.
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InfoWorld - The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize.
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The Massachusetts Institute of  Technology will become by year's end the first U.S. university  to offer all of its roughly 1,800 courses free on the Internet,  a school official said on Friday.
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Julia Huston, a partner at the Boston intellectual-property law firm Bromberg &amp; Sunstein, has been named president of the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts. Huston, who cochairs the firm's trademark and copyright practice groups, took the helm of the 1,300-member organization this week. During her yearlong presidency, Huston said, she intends to support legislation that would protect women ...