Kassebaum said she gave a quiz in one of her classes and most of her students couldnt identify Mae Jemison, the first black female to travel in space, Ruth Simmons, the first black president of an Ivy League institution or Rebecca Lee Crumpler, the first black woman to become a physician.
So it will take more than a celebrity board of directors (Mary Meeker, Larry Summers, former Brown University president Ruth Simmons and NBA legend Magic Johnson to name a few) to convince Wall Street that Square is worth buying.
Date: Nov 19, 2015
Category: Sci/Tech
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Commencement Speakers Unbowed by Student-Led Slings and Arrows
Lagarde, managing director of the International MonetaryFund, withdrew as speaker at Smith College amid protests overIMF policies. She was replaced by Ruth Simmons, former presidentof both Brown University and Smith.
Date: May 21, 2014
Category: U.S.
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IMF's Lagarde Won't Speak at Smith, Part of a Growing List
the first Brown president to promote discussion on the issue. In 2005, Brown's then-president, Ruth Simmons, gave a talk to kick off the spring semester in which she said she was concerned about reports she heard from students, parents and alumni about the lack of diversity of opinion on campus.
Date: Nov 07, 2013
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Brown to Pay Providence $31.5 Million Instead of Taxes
Brown is "deeply concerned about Providence's financial situation," said the university's president, Ruth Simmons, standing next to Mr. Taveras and Gov. Lincoln Chafee. Providence has said it risks bankruptcy if it doesn't close a yawning budget gap by June. Mr. Chafee, the nation's only Independent
another person's genome and see if you're related. And we did that in two cases. We proved that Ruth Simmons, the president of Brown, is actually descended from the slave master who owned her ancestor because we traced the white descendent of the slave master and matched their DNA. It was a slam dunk.
Paxson will assume her new position on July 1, the university said. She will take over from Ruth Simmons, the first African-American to lead an Ivy League university, who says she plans to finish some writing projects before returning to Brown as a faculty member.She added: "Under Ruth Simmons's leadership, the university has experienced tremendous growth over the past decade. I look forward to working with the exceptional community that is Brown to continue to build this extraordinary institution."