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Article: WHEN SHEILA WIDNALL SPEAKS, THEY LISTEN TO MAKE IT IN A MAN'S WORLD, SAYS AAAS PRESIDENT SHEILA WIDNALL, ''THERE ARE SOME ISSUES A WOMAN HAS TO GET SETTLED RIGHT AWAY.
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 8, 1988
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Sheila Widnall welcomes a visitor to her office at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology with only a marginal apology
for the stacks of folders and books littering all the horizontal
surfaces, including the floor. It's clear this is the office of
someone who is there to work.
Phone messages and memos paper the walls, testifying to the
hectic life of an aeronautical engineer and educator who also will
preside over this week's meeting in Boston of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science.
In the midst of this seeming chaos sits a scientist whom
colleagues describe as a "bundle of energy" and highly productive
in her field, and who, as the fifth female president of the ...