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Diana Chapman Walsh was President of
Wellesley College Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henry and Pauline Durant as a female seminary, it is a member of the original Seven Sisters Colleges, an unofficial g ...
from 1993 to 2007. During her tenure, the college revised its curriculum and expanded its programs in global education, internships and service learning, and interdisciplinary teaching and learning. The faculty established new majors in environmental studies, quantitative reasoning, cinema and media studies, neurosciences, and astrophysics. Japanese, Arabic and Korean languages were added to the curriculum as well, and a new department of East Asian Languages and Literatures was launched.President Diana Chapman Walsh to Step Down in June 2007
. Wellesley College website. Retrieved on 10 July 2008.


Contributions

Other innovations included the opening of the Davis Museum and Cultural Center, the establishment of the Religious and Spiritual Life Program, the creation of the Knapp Media and Technology Center, the Knapp Social Science Center, a center for the humanities, the Ruhlman and Tanner conferences, which are annual day-long events to showcase student learning in the classroom and beyond, and other initiatives designed to strengthen the quality of campus intellectual life. Many of the college’s administrative structures were strengthened and major landscape restoration and building projects were completed across the campus. The college raised over $700 million in new gifts during this 14-year period, strengthened the management of the endowment and increased it fourfold, to over $1.6 billion. Additionally, applications to Wellesley increased by 42%.


Legacy at Wellesley

Wellesley's Alumnae Hall was renamed the Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall in Walsh's honor after its 2010 renovation. The hall was originally constructed in 1923, but was cramped and inaccessible. Following its highly successful renovation, it is now home to a 1,000-seat auditorium and the college's Theater Studies Department, and is the site of many of the college's most important events.


Academic career

Previously, Dr. Walsh was the Norman Professor at the
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, and chair of the Department of Health and Social Behavior. There she developed and led an interdisciplinary program in society and health, an educational initiative in cancer prevention, a program of studies on social norms and substance abuse, and a project on social marketing for public health. Prior to that, she was at
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, as a University Professor, and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health. Walsh is a 1966 graduate of Wellesley College, as an English major. At Boston University, she earned an M. S. degree in journalism from in 1971 and, in 1983, a Ph.D. in health policy from the University Professors Program. She received the Wallerstein Award for the distinguished graduate thesis in journalism in 1971 and the Alumni Merit Award for the best graduate dissertation by a University Scholar in 1983. She spent five years, in the early 1970s, as the information and education director for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, on whose board she continued to serve for a decade. She was senior staff associate of the Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health and then associate director of the Health Policy Institute at Boston University, where she developed and ran a fellowship program in health policy for corporate executives. As a Kellogg National Fellow, from 1987 to 1990, she traveled extensively (to Spain, Russia, Iceland, Norway, Brazil and throughout the United States) studying
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and patterns of leadership, and writing poetry.


Publications

Walsh has published on topics related to the organization and financing of health care services, the conservation of health, the prevention and treatment of substance abuse, the health effects of work and on a number of issues in higher education. Her empirical studies have appeared in professional and scholarly journals such as the ''New England Journal of Medicine'', ''
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'' and the ''Journal of the American Medical Association'', and she is the author of reviews, essays, commentaries, and case studies. She has written, edited and co-edited twelve books, including a nine-volume series on industry and health care published by Springer-Verlag, a study of the practice of medicine within corporations entitle
''Corporate Physicians: Between Medicine and Management''
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, 1987, a co-edited monograph entitled ''Society and Health'' and published by
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, and an essay
Trustworthy Leadership
published by the
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. The
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will publish her memoirs, tentatively titled ''The Claims of Life: A Memoir'', in Fall 2023.


Other positions

Walsh currently serves as chair of the board of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, as a member of the corporation of the
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. She is a trustee of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and of the
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. She was a director of the
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from 1999–2007 and a trustee of
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from 1998-2010. She is a member of the
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and of
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.Keynote Bio: Diana Chapman Walsh

Heart of Education
website. Retrieved on 10 July 2008.


Biographical notes

Her husband,
Christopher T. Walsh Christopher T. Walsh NAS IoM AAA&S AAM is a Hamilton Kuhn professor of biological chemistry and pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on enzymes and enzyme inhibition, and most recently he is focused on the problem of an ...
, is the Hamilton Kuhn Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry at the
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. Their daughter, Allison Kurian, is an associate professor of medicine and health policy at
Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
. Walsh's sister, Sally Chapman, was a professor at
Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...
. When she died in 2012, Walsh accepted the Barnard Medal of Distinction on her behalf.


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