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The two professors, both under 40 years of age, will increase the vitality of the department, according to Department Chair John Y. Campbell.
“The quality of any department depends on the vitality of the faculty”, Campbell said. “When you have the opportunity to offer a junior faculty member tenure, you have the chance to improve that vitality.”
Offers of tenure at other universities for each of the professors prompted the department, which had noted each professor’s research work, to offer tenure to Farhi and Gopinath, Campbell said.
Both professors were tenure-track faculty at Harvard, so the department thought this time would be an appropriate time to react, Campbell said.
Deborah McEwan, a graduate student in the MCB department who is about to receive her degree, said that bringing the microscopes together in one room will allow all researchers to be aware of the resources available to them.