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Despite the effects of the financial crisis on the University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Allan M. Brandt said the school has no plans to cut funding for any of its programs. Brandt said, however, that GSAS administrators have made modest modifications to the school’s administrative budget upon the request of Michael D. Smith, the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Smith has asked all departments for 10 to 15 percent budget cuts in order to meet the more than $100 million shortfall across FAS in the next fiscal year...
Freshman proctors may see cuts in their meal plans next year, according to Dean of Freshman Thomas A. Dingman ’67. He said both cuts in the 15-meal per week allotment for proctors and a total abolishment of the proctor guest meal plan are on the table. “The proctors work hard and this is an important part of their compensation,” he said. “We want their presence in the dining hall.” While proctors emphasized the importance of interacting with students—especially in Annenberg?...
From its dark opening scene, Zack Snyder’s “Watchmen” establishes a complex blend of murder mystery, social commentary, and unrepentant action flick. This mood is immediately set as brawny Edward Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) fails to fight off an unidentified attacker in his home. Viewers—assuming they have not read the graphic novel—can only speculate as to the assassin’s identity, but Blake knows, telling his killer that their world is a joke before he is hurled out a high-rise window.Creating this world has required...
Physicist Cherry A. Murray has been selected as the Dean of the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, effective July 1, 2009.Murray, who is currently the principal associate director for science and technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, will also be appointed the John A. and Elizabeth S. Armstrong Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences.The selection was announced to SEAS faculty in an e-mail sent yesterday afternoon, according to Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti, a professor of physics at SEAS who served as dean for a decade. He was succeeded in the interim by Applied...
...also up by $7 billion this academic year, according to NAFSAA. The increase in applications for financial aid at Harvard maps with the national increase in FAFSA applications. This year, the number of financial aid applicants increased from 73 to 78 percent of the undergraduate population, according to Dean of Admission and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67. But Harvard remains able to meet the full financial need of its students, which will total $147 million next year—an 18 percent increase from 2008-2009. Harvard’s funding for financial aid comes mostly...