Diana Chapman Walsh 90 Baxter Road Brookline, MA 02245 617-232-5795 617-833-8319 (cell) President emerita, Wellesley College Diana Chapman Walsh is chair of the inaugural board of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, is a director of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and a member of the MIT Corporation. She formerly served as a director of the State Street Corporation (1999-2007), a trustee of Amherst College (1998-2010), and chair of the board of the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, among other organizations. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Phi Beta Kappa, she writes, speaks, and consults regularly on a range of issues related to higher education. Walsh was the twelfth President of Wellesley College, from 1993 to 2007, and the fourth alumna to head Wellesley, a leading college for women and one of the nation’s top liberal arts colleges. During her tenure, the college undertook a number of successful educational initiatives, including a revision of the curriculum and expanded 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. 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 and the Knapp Social Science Center, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities, the annual Ruhlman and Tanner conferences, and other initiatives designed to strengthen the quality of campus intellectual life. Many of the college’s administrative structures were strengthened as well. Also, under her leadership, the trustees approved a comprehensive campus master plan in 1998, the first since 1921, and implemented major landscape restoration projects 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 four-fold, to over $1.6-billion. In 2000-2001, Wellesley marked its 125th anniversary and launched a five-year $400-million comprehensive campaign, with a series of celebratory programs on the campus and across the country. The Campaign for Wellesley, completed in June 2005, significantly exceeded its goal (raising $472.3-million) and set a new record for liberal arts colleges. The campaign culminated in the opening of an award-winning 11-acre complex comprising the Wang Campus Center, the Davis parking facility and a surrounding landscape, Alumnae Valley, which, according to the American Society of Landscape Architects (in the 2006 citation for its highest award) “totally transforms the campus and sends a very strong environmental message.” Before assuming the Wellesley presidency, Dr. Walsh was Florence Sprague Norman and Laura Smart Norman Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, where she chaired the Department of Health and Social Behavior. She reinvigorated that department and founded the Program on Society and Health there. Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, she was at Boston University, as a University Professor, and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences in the School of Public Health. Diana Chapman Walsh is a 1966 graduate of Wellesley College, where she majored in English. At Boston University, she earned an M.S. degree in journalism (1971) and a Ph.D. in health policy from the University Professors Program (1983). In 1994, she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Boston University. She has honorary degrees from Deree College of the American College of Greece (1995), the University of Massachusetts (1999), Northeastern University (2000), Clark University (2008), and Cambridge (MA) College (2009). As a Kellogg National Fellow from 1987 to 1990, Walsh traveled throughout the United States and abroad studying workplace democracy and principles of leadership, and writing poetry. She has written, edited and co-edited about 60 articles and book chapters, thirteen policy monographs and a study of the practice of medicine within corporations, Corporate Physicians: Between Medicine and Management, Yale University Press, 1987. She co-edited Society and Health, Oxford University Press, 1995, an analysis of social and cultural determinants of health and illness, and has written on leadership and higher education. At Boston University Walsh co-directed a Center for Industry and Health Care at the Health Policy Institute and was principal investigator of a groundbreaking study of alcoholism treatment, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 1991 (September 12); 325:775-782, “A Randomized Trial of Treatment Options for Alcohol-Abusing Workers,” Walsh, Hingson, Merrigan, et al.. There, and at Harvard, she published frequently on tobacco and alcohol policy, prevention and health promotion, social factors influencing health, workplace health policy, and related concerns. Diana Chapman Walsh was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated from the Springside School in Chestnut Hill. In 1966 she married Christopher T. Walsh, currently the Hamilton Kuhn Professor in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry at Harvard Medical School, former head of the MIT chemistry department former president of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and recipient of various awards for his scientific work including, most recently, the 2010 Welch Prize in Chemistry. Their daughter, Allison Walsh Kurian, is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School. She completed a residency in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2002, and, in 2005, a fellowship in oncology at Stanford Medical School, where she is now assistant professor of medicine and health research and policy, maintaining a clinical practice and a research program there. She and her husband, Thomas Kurian, executive vice president of the Oracle Corporation, have a son, Sean Rohan Kurian, born in October 2008.