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After a year and a half without a permanent leader, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences finally has one. Michael D. Smith, a 45-year-old computer scientist who has been at Harvard since 1992, will take over as dean of the Faculty, President-elect Drew G. Faust announced yesterday.Smith...
DeLong, meanwhile, says that he took extremely challenging classes in a broad range of fields, spanning everything from econometrics to Straussian philosophy. He also became close to then-Harvard professor William Lazonick, a business historian who now teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.
"Mike Smith is an excellent teacher, a distinguished computer scientist, and a talented leader known to his colleagues as someone who galvanizes others in pursuit of common goals," Faust wrote in a letter to the FAS community Monday morning. "He has emerged as one of his generation's most influential...
"This is a moment of rare opportunity, as we renew our curriculum, explore new connections across fields, and plan for a presence in Allston that reflects and strengthens our academic mission," he said in the statement.
Last Wednesday, President George W. Bush announced that he would nominate Robert B. Zoellick, a Harvard Law School (HLS) and Kennedy School of Government (KSG) graduate, to be the World Bank’s 11th president, succeeding Paul Wolfowitz in the position. His nomination is subject to approval by the...