Harvard University Names First Female President.

Drew G. Faust officially took office as the 28th president of Harvard University on Sunday, becoming the first female to lead the University in its 371-year history.

Faust, the former dean of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, will be formally installed as the University’s president on Oct. 12 in an outdoor ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre. While the fall inauguration ceremonies are usually full of pomp and circumstance—the new president receives ancient symbols of office including two silver keys, two seals of the University, the earliest college record book, and the Harvard Charter of 1650—Sunday’s official changing of the guard passed with little fanfare.