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Last week, a decade after University President Neil L. Rudenstine reinvented the role of the Harvard provost, Steven E. Hyman became the fourth man to fill that role. And with the University's number two office at a historical crossroads, the best indicator of the direction in which he might take it is the interfaculty initiative he once directed: Mind, Brain and Behavior...
Like his boss-to-be, Lawrence H. Summers, Hyman, currently the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), won't be a familiar face in Harvard Yard when he arrives. But interfaculty initiatives, the hallmark of the provost's office under Hyman's predecessors, were designed to prompt academic collaboration between the University's disparate parts, and MBB—arguably the crown jewel of those programs—has his fingerprints all over...
...faculty in very diverse disciplines realized that they needed each other," Hyman says. "That's something I'd like to build...
...think that was a particular challenge demonstrating his leadership because it involved engaging senior faculty from non-scientific disciplines in an initiative that was clearly grounded in neuroscience," says Harvard Medical School Draper Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience Joseph T. Coyle, who chaired the psychiatry department when Hyman was a professor there...
Though the provost's office has worked since its inception to unite Harvard's oft-divergent faculties, unifying the University remains a top item on Summers' agenda. And many point to Hyman's role in the MBB program as a sure sign that he's the right...