M.I.T. Makes Yale Provost First Woman to Be Its Chief
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Susan Hockfield, a 53-year-old neuroscientist, is the first woman and the first person from the life sciences to achieve the presidency.
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Thursday named Susan Hockfield, provost of Yale University, as its 16th president. She succeeds Charles M. Vest, who
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Ina unanimous vote yesterday, the trustees of the City University of New York named Stephen B. Shepard, the editor in chief of Business Week, as dean of the university&#39;s new graduate journalism school.
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A celebrated historian on Sunday became Harvard's first female president since its founding in 1636, succeeding Lawrence Summers whose short tenure was dogged by controversial remarks about women and a faculty revolt.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - 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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Dean becomes the new chairman of the D.N.C.
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The largest trade organization for the advertising industry is poised to name a woman as its leader for the first time in its 91-year history.
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Ms. Vogel, director of the playwriting programs at Brown University, has been appointed the chairwoman of the playwriting department at Yale School of Drama.
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Susan Heystee will oversee the Microsoft relationship and technical cooperation between the two companies.
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Drew Gilpin Faust, a historian, would be the first female president in Harvard's 371-year history.
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Harvard University will likely appoint its first female president this weekend, ending a one-year search for a new leader at America's oldest university, the student newspaper reported on Friday.
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Britain's "men in tights" have their first female chief.
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Beverly H. Lorell took a leave from her academic job last year to become chief medical and technology officer for Guidant Corp. The post puts her at the center
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Katharine Weymouth, the granddaughter of late Washington Post Co. chairman Katharine Graham, has been named chief executive of Washington Post Media, a new division that will oversee The Washington Post newspaper and its online component, washingtonpost.com, the company said today.
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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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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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Emily Kernan Rafferty will be the first woman to hold the job when she succeeds David E. McKinney in January.