WELLESLEY – Wellesley College named its first black leader Thursday, announcing Harvard Medical School professor Dr. Paula Johnson as the elite institution's 14th president.
Johnson currently leads the women's health division at the medical school in Boston as well as the Connors Center for Women's Health and Gender Biology, which she founded at Brigham and Women's Hospital. She also teaches Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She has also served as the head of Boston's Public Health Commission.
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage figured Democrats would shoot down his choice for education commissioner, so he withdrew the nomination. And on Thursday, he named himself to lead the department instead.
The famously pugnacious Republican governor made the announcement Thursday at a Chamber of Commerce breakfast that he planned to circumvent confirmation hearings amid an ongoing feud with the Legislature, most recently a recent spat over accommodations for transgender students.
