The newly-named president of Harvard University is Drew Gilpin Faust, a 1968 graduate of Bryn Mawr College.

nancy pelosi is a graduate of a women's college (trinity college, now trinity washington university).

Nothing much, but I just noticed that The Humanity Initiative has Ursula K. Le Guin's 1983 commencement address at Mills as one of their most inspiring commencement speeches. Toni Morrison's 2004 speech at Wellesley is their third-highest ranked, but I thought some of you might find Le Guin's interesting since it's lesser-known and contains this ( Read more... )

I randomly picked up a book from 1958 today: The Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Radio Astronomy Issue. It includes biographies of the contributers, 70 in all, 4 of them women. Two of those women went to Goucher College, which was then a women's college (coed in 1986), and one later taught at Wellesley. Here are their biographies:
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