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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...
Steven E. Hyman, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and a former Harvard Medical School professor, was named the University’s new provost on Monday. The 1982 movie The Secret of NIMH runs...
Hyman’s years in Washington have given him a wealth of experience, which we hope will help realize Summers’ goal of helping Harvard to become a truly global university. Although Hyman has most recently been away from the University and has never worked within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), he should work collaboratively with FAS as well as with the other faculties to improve interdisciplinary ties and to make the University more than the sum of its parts...