May 9, 2008

Radcliffe Institute Sticks With Its Dean; Irvine Picks Dean of Engineering; Western Washington U. Names New President; U. of Massachusetts at Amherst Chooses Chancellor

By EUGENE MCCORMACK, PAULA WASLEY, RICHARD BYRNE, and CHARLES HUCKABEE

ADVANCED COMPUTATION: Barbara J. Grosz, interim dean of Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study since July, has been named to the position permanently. Ms. Grosz officially replaces Drew Gilpin Faust, who stepped down last year to become president of the university.

Ms. Grosz is a computer scientist and newly elected member of the National Academy of Engineering whose research focuses on artificial intelligence. She joined Harvard in 1986 as a professor of computer

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