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...colleagues. Faust said the new labs would be ready by 2011—precisely when the Science Complex had once been slated for completion.“There is extreme financial difficulty in the University and the decision was made to delay Allston,” says Catherine Dulac, chair of the MCB department. “We all have to accommodate some of the consequences.”With FAS now planning to revamp its administrative and programmatic structure, the University’s decision to reconfigure its limited laboratory space has irked affected MCB researchers who feel...
...planning troubled professors as well. When former Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Jeremy R. Knowles penned a major report on Allston in 2003 that argued against moving FAS sciences across the river, professors were only allowed to read the report behind closed University Hall and department chair doors. Concerns soon swirled in FAS that planning for Allston was a “fait accompli” and that objections and discussions about Summers’ plans were not being taken into account. Ironically, then as now, FAS suffered from fiscal difficulties, for which Summers advised...
...once-in-a-century catastrophes that result from market imperfections reinforcing one another.“There has been a visceral reaction of many economists toward building market frictions or inefficiencies into their models—but that’s changing,” says outgoing economics chair James H. Stock, pointing to the significantly higher degree of difficulty involved in solving models that include the possibility of extremely unusual phenomena.Other economists may not be asking the right questions, even before reaching the stage of setting up models.The pressure on academic economists to publish prolifically, especially at the start...
...Teachers and administrators in several departments also confirmed that they would not be reducing undergraduate employment. Computer Science 50 Professor David J. Malan ’99 says he plans to hire the same number of students this year as last year, while Chair of the Mathematics Department Shing-Tung Yau says he had not been informed of any need to cut undergraduate instructors...
...have been asked to offer some reflections on this extraordinary year from my standpoint as a professor, a department chair, and a house master. The first word that comes to mind is meetings. There have been countless hours of meetings, attended by the faithful on the faculty, the caucus of chairs, the house masters—all with charts and PowerPoint presentations demonstrating an unprecedented 220 million dollar deficit in fiscal year 2010, getting worse thereafter...