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Romney Aides
Include Veterans
of Campus Fights
With Liberals
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W;;;;;;;;;; ;;;;;;;;; here in a quaint town on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, can seem a world away from
Washington, D.C., But this small liberal-arts
college’s president, Mitchell B. Reiss, has his
eyes squarely focused on the nation’s capital.
As a foreign-policy adviser to Gov. Mitt
Romney’s presidential campaign,
Mr. Reiss hopes
to bring about
a change in the
White House.
To an extent
that is rare today
in America, Mr.
Reiss is a creature of both politics and academe.
On the political
side, he is a former State Depart-
ment of;cial, played a central role in U.S. diplomatic efforts in Northern Ireland and on the
Korean peninsula, and has advised the White
House and several federal agencies. In academe, he was a vice provost for international
affairs and a professor of law and government
at the College of William & Mary before
coming here to lead Washington College.
“There are important qualities, in both academia and public service, that reinforce each
other,” Mr. Reiss said recently. People in both
;elds, he said, need to possess intellectual curiosity as well as the ability to engage in rig-
JIM GRAHAM, WASHINGTON COLLEGE
Mitchell Reiss
Scholarly Publishing’s
Gender Gap
2001-
2010
Growth in
female authors
in molecular
Total
authors:
138,076
Female authors
31.3%
and cell
biology
Male authors
68.7%
1991-
2000
Female authors
27.4%
Total authors:
126,889
Compare the percentage of
Male authors
72.6%
women who published in
selected ;elds on A6, or search
gender differences in nearly
1,800 ;elds, with data from
1665 to 2010 at chronicle.com
Women cluster in certain
fields, according to a study
of millions of journal articles,
while men get more credit
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W;;;;Jennifer;Jacquet ;rst visited Carl T. Bergstrom’s evolutionary- biology lab at the University of
Washington last year, she was surrounded by
men. Men staring at data on the 27-inch Mac
Pro computer screen that takes center stage
in the lab. Men talking about mathematical
proofs, about a South Park episode on evolution, about their latest mountain-climbing
adventures.
“The lab is like visiting a fraternity,” says
Ms. Jacquet, who completed her postdoc at
the University of British Columbia before
starting this year as a clinical assistant professor in environmental studies at New York
University.
Perhaps being the only woman in the lab
prompted Ms. Jacquet’s answer when Mr.
Bergstrom, a professor of theoretical and evolutionary biology, asked her what should be
done with a remarkable new trove of data. Mr.
1981-
1990
Total
authors:
77,549
Female
authors
23.5%
Male authors
76.5%
MIT Adopts a Quiet Global Strategy
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John Fernandez (left), an architecture professor at MIT, consults
with a student at the Singapore U. of Technology and Design.
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B;;;;;;;the1960sand 1970s, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was in the
university-building business.
A young, democratic India turned
to MIT as the model for one of its
leading Indian Institutes of Technol-
ogy. Faculty members helped estab-
lish Brazil’s Technological Institute
of Aeronautics, a breeding ground
for its aerospace and defense elite.
Another of MIT’s progeny, the Ary-
amehr University of Technology,
which was split into two institutions
after the Iranian revolution, is today
at the heart of that country’s contro-
versial nuclear program.
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can widen researchers’ world with
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Colleges resort to a “lead generation”
industry that is running afoul
of regulators. Page A22
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