Educational anthropologist Barbara Lazarus, 57
Posted: Sunday, July 20th, 2003 9:57 pmBarbara B. Lazarus, an educational anthropologist who studied barriers to women entering science and engineering and created programs to overcome them, died last Tuesday in Pittsburgh. She was 57.
The cause was cancer, her husband, Marvin Sirbu, said.
Dr. Lazarus, who was associate provost for academic affairs at Carnegie Mellon University, was recognized for her creative methods of increasing the number of women in science and engineering at Carnegie Mellon and elsewhere. Her programs became models for other colleges, which often sought her help. … Read full obituary
