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According to University officials, when then-Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 broached the topic of expanding class credit in the 1990s, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the other wealthier schools resisted...
Universities will be among the first to suffer under such rules if they are not challenged. Understandably, then, among the signatories of Friday’s statement by the Academies was Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, who is the president of the Institute of Medicine and the former provost of Harvard...
Although many who have worked in academia such as Fineberg support open publication of research, some academics remain skittish. Moreover, the most serious threat to open scientific research comes not from the politicos in the White House but from the academics whose intellectual strafing allows restrictions to advance. In his new book Our Posthuman Future, political scientist Francis Fukuyama—who is also a member of the influential President’s Council on Bioethics—makes the case for regulating the manipulation of human genes and the widespread prescription of psychotropic drugs such as Ritalin and Prozac...
Hyman’s predecessor as provost, Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, pushed hard to have the system changed. But ultimately nothing came of his proposal to loosen the system...
Soon, in fact, it was the University’s only arm. In 2000, HIID was dissolved and much of its endowment transferred to CID. A committee reporting to then-Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 said the University should concentrate its efforts on academic research rather than consulting...