NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 10th December 2007 04:43 PM GMT] The Lasker Foundation announced today that Maria Freire will replace president Neen Hunt on March 1 of next year.
Freire was most recently CEO of the non-profit Global Alliance for TB Drug Development, and previously directed the Office of Technology Transfer at the NIH.
Hunt, 65, has been president since 1995. She said she will work to support medical research philanthropy, according to the foundation's spokesperson, Kendall... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 6th December 2007 06:21 PM GMT] MIT will grant tenure to just one woman this year, a professor in economics, compared to 24 men, reports the Boston Globe today (Dec 6).
Last year, five women were granted tenure compared with 19 men. The school's president, Susan Hockfield, said MIT is committed to increasing the rate of women in tenure positions. "We want to be able to show that progress every single year," she told the... Click to continue
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NewsBlog: [Entry posted at 3rd December 2007 05:56 PM GMT] Iowa State University has denied tenure to Guillermo Gonzalez, an astronomer who has publicly supported intelligent design. One of his colleagues told the Des Moines Register that he thought the decision was based partly on Gonzalez's statements on the subject.
When the school announced the decision last spring, officials said it was based on his publication record. But the ... Click to continue
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