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Interim Dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Barbara J. Grosz will continue on as the Institute’s permanent dean, President Drew G. Faust announced yesterday. Over six months in the making, the decision is the fourth in a series of deanship appointments Faust was posed to make when she took over the presidency last summer...
...Faust still must make deanship appointments for the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences when Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti steps down in September and the School of Public Health when Barry R. Bloom leaves at the end of the academic year...
Stephen M. Kosslyn, the Psychology department chair noted for his research on mental imagery and visual perception, will assume the divisional deanship for the social sciences in July, Faculty of the Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith announced yesterday...
...Some suggest that Smith’s fairly smooth ride in pushing his own version of the divisional deanship may be a function of the times. Many professors agree that much of the discontent with the divisional dean structure may have been simply an outgrowth of the turmoil that roiled the Faculty in late 2005 as the tenure of former University President Lawrence H. Summers drew to a close...
...think that [the divisional deanship] has been better in the past year or two than its was in the first years,” said Linguistics chair Jay H. Jasanoff ’63. “I think a lot of that has to do with Larry Summers and the personnel in the dean’s office. A lot of the complaints a few years ago were driven by Larry Summers and his agenda...