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After the war, he came to Harvard as a professor of microbiology and quickly was appointed head of HSPH’s new Department of Public Health Bacteriology. In October 1954, a few months after the death of then-Dean James S. Simmons, Snyder was appointed dean of HSPH...
Under Snyder’s term, the school built two of its main research facilities, known simply as Buildings I and II, as well as an administrative center. His 17-year tenure marked an unusually productive time for HSPH: the next new building after Snyder’s retirement was not erected until 1995, more than two decades after he left...
...When I was a student, there was nothing. There was a crummy old building called 695 Huntington, and just two buildings total,” said Dr. Robert Chang, who studied under Snyder at HSPH from 1950 to 1952, just before he became dean. “[Snyder] was really the first dean to raise so much money for the building project of the School of Public Health...
...addition to raising money and expanding the campus physically, Snyder also worked to add professors to the HSPH faculty and widen the scope of the school’s curriculum into emerging fields such as demography and human ecology...
Snyder had long taken a personal interest in studying demographics and human population growth, and as dean he founded departments on behavioral sciences, demography and human ecology. He established two new professorships in those fields—two of almost a dozen new HSPH professorships that were endowed under his watch...