In First, Woman to Lead Top Med School
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RALEIGH, N.C., Aug. 27 -- Duke University on Monday named a Harvard researcher as the first woman to lead its medical school, making her the only woman permanently at the helm of one of the nation's top 10 medical schools.
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Newly-qualified women doctors outnumber their male counterparts by almost three to two, a survey suggests.
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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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A surgical gown with incision marks is designed to boost medical students' empathy for their patients.
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A woman who lost both legs and an arm as a child is poised to become a doctor for children.
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With her first child headed for college this fall and two more soon to follow, Carol Wright was lost. Campus tours, applications, financial aid forms, transcripts, SAT scores, class planning &#151; and that was just the beginning.
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The new facility, Microsoft's sixth, will open in July. The lab will be led by Jennifer Tour Chayes, marking the first time a woman has been tapped to lead one of the company's research centers.
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Susan Hofacre, Robert Morris University's first female athletic director, died Saturday of cancer. She was 54.
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At Brigham and Women's Hospital, a group of doctors last week gathered around the ''most physiologically gifted athlete in the world,&quot; and watched her breathe.
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GENEVA -- Bird flu and SARS battler Margaret Chan was elected Thursday to head the World Health Organization, the highest U.N. post ever won by a Chinese national, and she immediately pledged to give highest priority to the health of women and Africans.
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Dani Kochavi knew George Washington University was her top college choice, and she wanted GW to know it.
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How does it feel to be the first woman to receive the nation's top computer science award? Sweet, indeed, says Frances Allen, the IBM Fellow Emerita who this week received the prestigious A.M. Turing Award.
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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 former university head is chosen to look after widening student access to higher education in England.
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Donna Orender, a high-ranking PGA Tour executive, has been named president of the Women's National Basketball Association.
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BUENOS AIRES - She met her future husband while studying law and joined him as he rose from governor of a small state to the presidency. A powerful first lady and senator in her own right, she's now campaigning hard to be the first woman elected president of her country.
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After finishing 19-12 and playing in the Womenâs National Invitation Tournament last season, Hofstra is off to an 8-1 start under the first-year coach Krista Kilburn-Steveskey.