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"I think that helped -- to have these people out there performing," she said.

Dominant as this influx of female violinists is, Hwang-Williams believes this generation is just the beginning of a continuing explosion of talent.

"The younger kids have a much more open vision of what it could be," she said. "They're not limited by feeling like this is a man's world. With each generation, it just pushes the envelope more, and they feel empowered."

Woman Expected to Lead Harvard

Drew Gilpin Faust, whose appointment is likely on Feb. 11, would be the institution's first female president.

By Jane Porter

Business Week (Note: Ms Faust was elected and will take over on July 1, 2007)

Harvard is poised to name the first female president in the university's 370-year history: Drew Gilpin

Faust, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, is to be ratified by the school's Board of

Overseers on Feb. 11, The Harvard Crimson and The Boston Globe reported on Feb. 9. She would pick up from the tumultuous presidency of Lawrence Summers, who resigned in June. Faust was one of two women who were being considered for the job after a third contender, a man, withdrew.

University spokesman John Longbrake said on Feb. 9 that he could not comment on the process while it is still officially under way, but the prospect that a woman would get the top job was already winning praise in some parts of the venerable Cambridge campus.