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...happen personally to think that the major goal should be to create jobs, goods, and services,” says Harvard chemist George M. Whitesides ’60, the Flowers university professor, who has been issued more than 70 patents himself...
...dean to sit in University Hall’s second-floor corner office in just over a year. The Faculty has lacked a permanent leader since historian William C. Kirby resigned under pressure from then-University President Lawrence H. Summers in January of last year. Jeremy R. Knowles, the chemist who led FAS through the 1990s and returned to University Hall last summer to serve as interim dean, stepped down last month because of complications from prostate cancer. Anthropologist David R. Pilbeam has stood in for Knowles since April.The announcement comes after British geophysicist Jeremy Bloxham—divisional dean...
Jeremy R. Knowles, the chemist who led FAS through the 1990s and returned to University Hall last summer to serve as interim dean until the selection of a permanent FAS leader, stepped down last month because of complications from prostate cancer...
...daring than anticipated rescue. "When they can't make payroll, I get parachuted in." Good, with a background in restructuring small to midsize companies, founded Meridian in 1988 to do turnaround consulting, investment banking and mergers and acquisitions. Her partner (and husband of 32 years) Tom Von Lehman, a chemist by training, had managed a division at PPG Industries, the big Pittsburgh, Pa., glass and chemical company. He joined her at Meridian in the post-9/11 press of business to provide management expertise. She works with lenders to buy a company time and cash. Then Von Lehman steps...
...work say that the invitation would have been extended regardless of her gender.“She is the world’s best at the particular kind of science she does, so she will make Harvard a world center just by being here,” says chemist George M. Whitesides ’60, the Flowers University Professor under whom Aizenberg studied in her earlier stint at Harvard. “She is someone we would recruit completely independent of everything else.”Capasso says that Aizenberg will remain a leader in the university setting even...