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Thomas R. Cech, the head of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a leading contender in Harvard’s presidential search, has bowed out of the race to be the University’s 28th chief...
Cech, a 1989 Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, has served as the head of Howard Hughes—the nation’s second-richest philanthropic organization—for the past seven years. He is also a longtime faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he maintains an active lab. He said that those two commitments weighed heavily in his decision to withdraw his name...
Cech notified the search committee and Secretary of the University Marc L. Goodheart ’81, who coordinates the administrative aspects of the search, of his decision yesterday morning, according to Howard Hughes spokeswoman Avice A. Meehan. He called The Crimson shortly thereafter, and informed the Howard Hughes community of his decision via e-mail...
...experience at Howard Hughes also made him an attractive candidate. As the institute’s president he has overseen the construction of a $500-million world-class center for interdisciplinary bioscience research...
Search committee members in recent weeks have spoken particularly highly of Howard Hughes Medical Institute President Thomas R. Cech—who withdrew his name from consideration yesterday—and Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust. And as Cech’s announcement yesterday adds new questions to the status of the search, Kagan may still be in contention for the University?...