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Smith President Receives Harvard Centennial MedalRuth J. Simmons, president of Smith College, was awarded the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Centennial Medal at a ceremony June 4 at the Harvard faculty club. The Centennial Medal was first awarded in 1989 at the 100th anniversary of the GSAS. The medal honors alumni for contributions to society that have emerged from their graduate education at Harvard. Simmons received the Ph. D. from Harvard's department of romance languages and literatures. She taught and served as an administrator at the University of New Orleans, California State University and the University of Southern California's Graduate School before moving to Princeton University in 1982, where she held a number of positions, including assistant and associate dean of the faculty and vice provost. She also served for a year as provost of Spelman College in Atlanta. Simmons assumed the presidency of Smith in 1995. Other centennial medalists this year were: Richard M. Karp, currently a member of the University of Washington faculty and a 1996 recipient of the National Medal of Science for his role in developing the field of complexity theory, a means of determining the inherent difficulty of solving any problem with computers; Stuart A. Rice, a distinguished chemistry professor on the faculty of the University of Chicago and of the James Franck Institute; and Henry Rosovsky, an economist with special interest in Asia who is Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor Emeritus at Harvard and former Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In recent weeks, Simmons has also received honorary degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Dartmouth College and Lake Forest (Il.) College, where she gave the commencement address. |
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