Memorial Service for Denice Dee Denton
The Times has up a moving piece on the memorial service for Denice Dee Denton, the chancellor at UC Santa Cruz who likely committed suicide last week. Not only was she a pioneer for women in science and engineering—she was among the early critics of Lawrence Summers at Harvard over his comments about the ladies’ lack of scientific aptitude—but she was also openly gay, a fact the piece mulls over as it looks for reasons for her death.
Stunned Campus Mourns Its Chief, an Apparent Suicide [NY Times]
