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...Colleagues point to his joint appointment as a historian of science at both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard Medical School as good preparation...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) has always been notoriously hushed about what goes on behind closed doors at their monthly sessions in University Hall. After last Tuesday’s debacle of a meeting, we’re starting to understand why. The Faculty chose to spend two hours engaged in a meaningless debate over parliamentary minutiae and the free speech resolution of anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, leaving no time to act on any of the several measures pertaining to the actual governance of the College. In light of important and time-sensitive proposals...
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Michael D. Smith formally announced the appointment of science historian Allan M. Brandt as dean of the University’s largest graduate school, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).The appointment ends an eight-month search that began when current GSAS Dean Theda R. Skocpol abruptly resigned from the post last March.Brandt, a history of science professor who also holds an appointment at the Harvard Medical School (HMS), will make the move into University Hall to take his new post on Jan. 1.In his announcement, Smith praised Brandt?...
...Provost Hyman, and President Faust to assure that our exceptional graduate programs remain a source of great innovation and creativity.” Brandt, on leave this fall, served as chair of the Department of the History of Science from 2000 to 2006. He has a joint appointment in FAS and the Harvard Medical School. Brandt is also a popular author. His most recent book, “The Cigarette Century,” was a New York Times bestseller. Trained at Brandeis and Columbia, Brandt is best known by undergraduates for a popular Core class on medicine in American...
According to Skocpol, the boost of funds to the sciences was necessary to allow FAS and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to increase the size of the incoming Ph.D. classes...