The line was a faux pas of sorts, but was also significant for making a direct connection between the two prizes.
Also on Monday, Assistant Dean of the College Karen E. Avery '87 announced that Lewis's office will launch a mentoring program for women in science next year.
The program will be organized through academic departments, with participants "discussing with various people the idea of a program to support
networking, mentoring, and support of undergraduate women in sciences."
Avery said the "Science Mentors Program" will be aimed at strengthening the advising women receive in science departments.
"It is hoped that ultimately there will be an even greater increase in the number of women science concentrators at Harvard College," Avery wrote in an e-mail message.
Karen Gordon Mills '75 has donated the funds for the fledging program, and Avery said all of the science-based academic departments will take part in the program.
The mentorship program may fill a gap left by the Science Alliance, a program formerly sponsored by Radcliffe College. The Science Alliance brought first-year women to campus a week early for intensive seminars about the sciences at Harvard.
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