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In her three-year tenure, Faust’s most direct exercise of presidential power may have been the appointment of seven deans across the University.
The Allston Science Complex would have been a mecca of interdisciplinary work, giving Faust a chance to bring together her new team to embark on the largest cross-faculty initiative under her direction.
Now, instead of continuing construction on the massive building that would have brought scientists from different fields to work under the same roof, the University has been forced to pause construction indefinitely and instead plant shrubbery to appease residents who complained that the unfinished Science Complex was an eyesore.
With University resources strained, planners have had to return to the drawing board, and the timeline for the expansion’s future has been extended.
And planners do not appear to be in a hurry to move forward, as the current master plan submitted to the city of Boston will be valid until 2012. Officials have been reluctant to offer a time frame for the planning process or when they think they might resume construction...