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...addition, Smith said he will turn to British geophysicist Jeremy Bloxham, the divisional dean of the physical sciences who in May turned down the opportunity to be dean of the Faculty, to serve as a temporary replacement for Douglas A. Melton as acting dean of the life sciences...
David R. Pilbeam, who has served as interim FAS dean for the past three months and is a former dean of undergraduate education, will be sticking around University Hall as well. Pilbeam, an informal consultant to Harvard administrators for decades, will act as senior adviser to Smith—a computer scientist who assumes the deanship with less administrative experience than recent predecessors...
...June 18 letter, provided by an FAS spokesman, was the first of what Smith promised would be many communications between the dean and his faculty...
Smith, on vacation in Europe, has not returned requests for comment. It remains unclear how the dean-to-be will fill the most important unoccupied position in University Hall, the College deanship. Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross '71 resigned last week, two days after Smith sent his letter, calling the move "entirely my decision...
Smith did, however, outline several other personnel moves. He announced that acting Dean of the Humanities Diana Sorensen will assume the position permanently. The promotion indicates that Smith wants to retain the four-year-old divisional dean structure even though it has irked some professors and administrators for being too vague and overly bureaucratic...