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...recent selection and approval of Steven E. Hyman as the University’s new provost is a positive indication that President Lawrence H. Summers intends to deliver on the promises he made during his installation speech. Hyman represents an excellent choice to help Summers’ administration deliver an increased emphasis on the sciences, centered on an improved undergraduate science curriculum, as well as new interdisciplinary initiatives that span the university’s diverse schools, institutes and departments...
...Hyman also stressed his commitment to undergraduate education at the College, echoing Summers’ inauguration statements about the importance of improving science education for all students—not just science concentrators...
...Hyman, 49, graduated summa cum laude from Yale University in 1974 in philosophy and the humanities. He was selected as a Mellon fellow and received a bachelors’s and a master’s degree in philosophy of science from the University of Cambridge...
From there, Hyman went to HMS, where he graduated cum laude in 1980. After an internship in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a residency in psychiatry at McLean Hospital and a clinical fellowship in neurology at MGH, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard in molecular biology...
...Hyman went on to teach neurobiology at HMS and was the director of psychiatry research...