Drew Gilpin Faust, 28th president of Harvard University and Lincoln Professor of History, has been president since 2007. During this time, she has expanded financial aid and advocated for increased funding for scientific research, broadened Harvard’s worldwide reach, launched edX (in partnership with MIT), and promoted collaboration across academic disciplines. Faust’s scholarly research is on the Civil War and the American South, and she founded the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. Prior to her positions at Harvard, she was the Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She received awards in...
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