MIT Names First Female President

wintermute1000 writes "According to CNN, MIT has just named its first female president. Along with other recent programs' efforts to get more women involved in the MIT community, is this a step in the right direction for the historically gender-biased institution?"

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Re:When will this kind of regulation go too far?

[Anonymous Coward]

MIT isn't promoting the fact that she is the first woman, the press is.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2004/president-ann ou ncement.html

From the announcement article it sounds like she was selected because she was best for the job overall. Not surprised at how the press it promoting it though.

Dr. Hockfield's accomplishments

[Guano_Jim]

A list of her recent publications can be read here.

From the page:

The main focus of our work is to bring biochemical and molecular biological techniques to the classical anatomical analysis of mammalian CNS development.

CNS being Central Nervous System, IIRC.