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“How hard is it to swallow?” asked Princeton coach Roger Hughes. “I can’t think of any taste in my mouth that would be worse than this. I can think of putting a skunk in my mouth, of putting...
Howard Hughes grants don’t permit recipients to do administrative work, according to Dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Dean of the Physical Sciences Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti.
University President Lawrence H. Summers said Melton will not serve as a full divisional dean “because he wants to carry on very much his portfolio of scientific research, supported by the Howard Hughes.”
Melton is one of the world’s leading stem cell researchers and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. Earlier this year, he created 17 new stem cell lines, and he will co-direct the new Harvard Stem Cell Institute.
“It’s obviously not easy to find deans in biology,” said Venky, who served on this year’s search committee for a life sciences dean. “And one of the reasons it’s not easy to...