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Such a science campus could attract outside firms in areas like biotechnology as well, as MIT has in Kendall Square. The idea was initially trumpeted as Allston consideration began a few years ago but has been downplayed over the past year...
Political campaigns attract a strange cast of characters—a mélange of college students, the unemployed and trust fund babies. Some are locals who only stick around for a few days; others are peripatetics who roam from one end of the country to the other, groupies who follow candidates from one swing state to the next...
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...