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After Lue outlined the current outreach programs that Harvard provides to the local area—including seminars with local high school teachers, faculty lectures, and student field trips to Harvard’s science labs—task force member Bruce Houghton said he wished the University had come to the meeting with concrete plans instead of ideas...
...with great sadness that we learned that Houghton Professor of Chemistry and Interim Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles had abruptly stepped down from the deanship for health reasons. Knowles has been a strong presence on campus—be it in the lab, the classroom, or University Hall—for three decades, 11 of them as dean and as interim dean for the past nine months. In that time, he has built up a reputation for strong, yet understated leadership. It is no secret that this page has disagreed with Knowles on matters...
...collecting since birth, think again. Like the winners of the Philip Hofer Prize for Collecting, you too could get paid for your passion. This year’s prizes were awarded to Ph.D. student Drew M. Massey and third-year graduate student Grete T. Viddal in a ceremony at Houghton Library yesterday. The prizes are given annually to one or several individuals whose collection of books or works of art exemplify “the traditions of breadth, coherence, and imagination” promoted by former Houghton curator Philip Hofer ’21. “It?...
With the absence of former University President Lawrence H. Summers at Harvard’s helm this year, some top administrators have also speculated that Robert E. Rubin ’60, a close friend of Summers and the longest-serving member of the Corporation after Houghton, will step down from the Corporation. He declined to comment for this article, but last August, he called suggestions of his impending resignation “unequivocally not true...
...Houghton was traveling and could not be reached by phone for comment...