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...Longbrake declined to comment on the decision, as tenure cases are confidential. In selecting candidates for tenured positions at Harvard, department members form a committee to discuss the case and make a recommendation, which is then presented to University President Drew G. Faust and University Provost Steven E. Hyman. The president and provost then appoint an ad-hoc committee of top academics in the field to review the case and advise the president on the final decision. The committee further solicits letters from well-established scholars in the field regarding the tenure candidate. Frankel said that something...
...year tenure there, but also to compensate for years of being “woefully underpaid” and to entice the 75-year-old to defer retirement and stay on. In academic year 2006-2007, Harvard’s highest paid official was provost Steven E. Hyman, who brought home $549,683, including benefits and a two-year award paid in 2007. —Staff writer Alexandra Perloff-Giles can be reached at aperloff@fas.harvard.edu...
...keynote speaker, Provost Steven E. Hyman, a neurobiologist, spoke about the importance of sharing knowledge throughout the University’s scientific communities...
...five departments, taught by “interdisciplinary teams of faculty [to] address topics in the context of larger biological questions.” At the Wyss Institute, there is no doubt that this interdisciplinary “bioengineering of the future,” as Provost Steven E. Hyman called it, will bring major benefits to mankind. Fortunately, Mr. Wyss has the foresight—and the funds—to finance this initiative. Harvard, like most research universities, depends on federal funding to conduct research. In 2007, Harvard received $329 million in grants from the National Institutes...
...Wyss did not want to simply re-create today’s biomedical engineering,” Hyman said. “Rather, he insisted that we build the bioengineering of the future...