The University Daily, Est. 1873 | Volume cxlv, No. 51 | Cambridge, Massachusetts | friday, april 6, 2018
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It took a great deal of resilience, but the Harvard baseball team is back in the Beanpot final. sports PAGE 9
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Woman Added to Math Faculty
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French number theorist Sophie Morel becomes the y Harvard Math Department’s first tenured female professor.
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Morel leaves Harvard for Princeton, inaugurating a six-year period in which the math department has no female faculty.
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A female math concentrator conducts a survey of math students at Harvard; 26 percent of female respondents report choosing not to take a math course at least once due to “gender imbalance” concerns.
By Amy L. Jia and Sanjana L. Narayanan Crimson Staff Writers
Harvard’s Math Department has hired a woman as a senior professor for the second time in its history, ending a sixyear streak in which the department boasted not a single woman of that rank. University of California at Berkeley math professors Lauren K. Williams ’00 and Denis Auroux will join Harvard’s math department as senior
Bacow to Oversee Allston Campus By Luke W. Vrotsos and Luke W. xu Crimson Staff Writers
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When Lawrence S. Bacow takes office in July, he will be the third Harvard president to oversee the development of the Allston campus since former University President Lawrence H. Summers first outlined plans for a campus there in 2001. He will also have just over a year before the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences emerges from its Cambridge chrysalis and migrates across the river. In the search for Harvard’s 29th President, Harvard’s presence in Allston was a central issue. The committee met with Dean of SEAS Francis J. Doyle III multiple times in the early stage of the search. In a February interview, Shirley M. Tilghman, a Corporation and search committee member, called the campus “a once-in-a-century opportunity” with national potential. With its new campus, SEAS will be able to provide more opportunities than ever to its faculty and student bodies, both of which have grown at breakneck pace. And with it, Harvard’s ambitions to become an engineering powerhouse on the scale of rivals MIT and Stanford will be closer than ever to reality. But the University’s project in Allston entails more complications than just managing SEAS expansion. Harvard’s relations with neighboring Allston have been rocky at times, and many Allston residents have expressed skepticism towards the construction site and its eventual occupants. It will fall on Bacow to make sure this “unprecedented opportunity” does not become, as some faculty called it in 2013, an “Allston bomb.” Many of his colleagues at Harvard said they think he is up to the task.
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Math department hires UC Berkeley math professor Lauren K. Williams ’00 as its secondever female tenured professor. katherine e. wang—Crimson designer
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THE ‘LAUNCHING PHASE’ Top administrators at Harvard, such as Doyle and University President Drew G. Faust, said they have faith in Bacow’s ability to manage the Allston campus. Doyle said he thinks Bacow’s time at MIT and Tufts—where he served as president—will give him a “perspective that’s different when it comes to things like engineering and the connection to the private sector.” “I think he’ll resonate with me on some opportunities I perceive that Harvard is only now positioned to be able to do in things like working with industry partnerships for students, for recruiting, for internships, for faculty projects, for a whole host of things,” he said. “So I’m really excited to sort of tap the expertise that he’s built up at both his Tufts and his MIT experience.”
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Grads Have Support, Garber Says
Nassar Accuser Speaks at University
By Molly C. Mccafferty and shera S. Avi -Yonah
By Simone C. Chu Crimson Staff Writer
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With Harvard’s second unionization election fast approaching, University Provost Alan M. Garber ’76 sent an email to affiliates Thursday listing resources Harvard already provides absent a bargaining unit—sparking intense backlash from some union advocates. The election, slated to take place April 18 and 19, will determine whether eligible graduate and
R achael Denhollander, the first woman to publicly accuse former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar of sexual abuse, visited Harvard Thursday to speak about how she seeks to live with both justice and forgiveness in front of a hundreds-strong crowd in Sanders Theatre. Denhollander earned national attention after she spoke out against Nassar—and inspired scores of women to do the same. Since Denholland
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At the Veritas Forum, Rachael Denhollander, a survivor of Larry Nassar’s sexual abuse, urges the pursuit of both justice and forgiveness through faith in a Moral Law Giver. hayoung hwang—Crimson photographer
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