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After a year and a half without a permanent leader, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will be led by a computer scientist, President-elect Drew G. Faust announced Monday morning.
Michael D. Smith, currently the associate dean for computer science and engineering, will assume leadership of the University's largest school in just six weeks.
"Mike Smith is an excellent teacher, a distinguished computer scientist, and a talented leader known to his colleagues as someone who galvanizes others in pursuit of common goals," Faust wrote in a letter to the FAS community Monday morning. "He has emerged as one of his generation's most influential...
Smith, who teaches the popular undergraduate course "Computer Science 50, Introduction to Computer Science 1," noted the "importance of a vibrant environment for scholarship across the arts and sciences and the offering of an education second to none."
When the popular computer scientist received tenure in 2000, his colleague, Henry H. Leitner, remarked, "We need more people like Michael Smith. Undergraduates love him, his teaching evaluations are always among the very highest. Harvard did very well in this case."