By Emily Pykett A WOMAN principal has been appointed by one of Scotland's ancient universities for the first time.

By Home-Douglas, Pierre WITH THE RARE OPENING OF A NEW SCHOOL, THE UNIVERSITY RESTORES ENGINEERING TO ITS ONCE-PROMINENT SPOT. ON A WARM, SUNNY AFTERNOON in September, 2007, Harvard did something it hadn't done in more than 70 years: It opened a new school.

By The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Feb. 13--Fortunately, as a child, Drew Gilpin Faust didn't listen to her mother: "This is a man's world, sweetie, and the sooner you learn that, the better off you'll be." Harvard University's board of overseers chose Ms.

A celebrated historian became on Sunday Harvard University's first female president since its founding in 1636, succeeding Lawrence Summers whose short tenure was dogged by controversial remarks about women and a faculty revolt.

By The Boston Globe Feb. 12--Congratulations to Drew Gilpin Faust. In July she will become Harvard's new president. A historian and dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Faust has made history. She is the first woman to run the university.