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...Knowles was named the Amory Houghton professor of chemistry and biochemistry, a position he held for the next 29 years. Just five years after the appointment, then-University President Derek C. Bok asked him to lead the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the University’s largest faculty and home to the College and Graduate School. Knowles said...
Knowles’ relationship with the senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, James R. Houghton ’58, was a subplot to the unraveling of the Summers presidency. Knowles was a close friend of Houghton, whose family endowed his professorship in chemistry. After stepping down as dean in 2002, Knowles joined the board of his company, Corning Inc., a glass and fiber-optics maker in upstate New York, where he served until April...
...Summers’ presidency crumbled in the face of Faculty discontent, Knowles was a confidante of Houghton and a friend of the president’s critics. Though he stepped publicly into the fight only to suggest the formation of a committee to negotiate between the Faculty and Summers, he was privately a critic of the controversial president...
...said that “Poetry in America” will incorporate field trips to Houghton Library and Mt. Auburn Cemetery in addition to lecture discussions. She also said students will memorize and recite poetry in class...
...maintenance check, Brainard added. The library’s emergency team was on site within 10 minutes of the first report and worked throughout Saturday night moving library holdings to drier ground, according to Brainard. Most affected library materials are currently laid out in areas of Pusey and Houghton libraries, while others are being freeze-dried. Spitzmueller said that most of the materials in Pusey collections would not suffer from water stains because they were covered with protective layers of mats and folders. Located near the burst pipe on Pusey Level 1, the stacks that contain the Theatre Collection were...