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More commendable than mere success is the ambitious pursuit of excellence above and beyond. It is this energy and drive that Dean Barry R. Bloom has brought to the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) over the past year. Although HSPH has been perennially ranked among the best public health schools in the nation, Bloom still pushed forward a new, more practical curricular component, based on his knowledge of what his students would face when they left school. This curricular revision, which was overseen by a group of the school’s associate deans, shifted the path of study...
...remembers admitting one student to Harvard Law School with an “unusual name”? and a “wonderful story.” It was future President-elect Barack Obama, and he was an easy admissions decision, the former Law School Dean of Admissions said yesterday during a discussion at the Harvard Coop about her new book “The Best Law Schools Admissions Secrets: The Essential Guide from Harvard’s Former Admissions Deans.” “One of the great things about a career in law school admissions...
...Dean Michael D. Smith wrote in a letter to FAS faculty and staff responding to Faust’s announcement that given the magnitude of the reduction in endowment income, the academic and administrative deans must look into cutting back on annual operating expenses...
...more than 100 gay legal scholars and others who support gay marriage, the mood was dour. "This has cast a pall" over what had otherwise been a historic election on Nov. 4, said D'Arcy Kemnitz, executive director of the National Lesbian Gay Law Association. Longtime gay rights advocate Dean Trantalis of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and others on the conference call expressed concern that the gay rights movement had become too focused on marriage, and is now paying the price in other more critical areas. "Marriage was never our issue," Trantalis said. "It was thrust upon us by the other...
...between academic, extracurricular, and social life formed the common thread running through many of the weekend’s activities and served as the basis for the panel discussion “The Freshman Year: Now and the Months Ahead.” As moderator of the discussion, Dean of Freshmen Thomas A. Dingman ’67 said he was “wowed” by the “intelligence, drive, and good-naturedness” of the Class of 2012. With 200 of its 1,660 members admitted off the wait list, Dean Dingman said there...