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Without a full engineering school, the University has struggled to attract top faculty and students in applied fields of science. Harvard’s faculty of 65 is small compared to Princeton’s 120-faculty engineering school and tiny by comparison to larger engineering programs like those at Stanford and MIT, which have around 250 and 300 faculty, respectively, Venky said...
Harvard’s lagging ability to attract top students and faculty in these areas is a product of what McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering Joseph J. Harrington said is a history of indifference to DEAS. Adminsitrators were perfectly content to let DEAS subsist as a small outpost in the FAS science compound along Oxford Street...
Faculty and administrators alike laud Venky for his superb leadership of the DEAS expansion thus far. They say he has been instrumental in helping to attract a significant number of faculty members over the last five years. He estimates he has hired about 30 professors, between replacing retiring faculty and creating new positions...
...biology, I think as FAS and the medical school work more closely together, I think our capacity to attract students will only increase,” he said...
...task force’s conclusions meant that in order to build and maintain strong sciences, Harvard must construct new labs to attract top faculty, according to Kathy A. Spiegelman, the University’s top planner...