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Provost Steven E. Hyman said that Buffington will be able to bring “an enormous and passionate dedication to the arts?...
Flier was a founding member of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee (HUSEC), a task force led by Provost Steven E. Hyman that is focused on improving University-wide science initiatives. Faust has already emphasized her desire to bring Harvard's 10 schools closer together through University-wide initiatives like the science planning led by HUSEC...
Inside Harvard, the committee most seriously considered two candidates in addition to Faust: Provost Steven E. Hyman, a neurobiologist, and Law School Dean Elena Kagan. Summers had appointed both. When Corporation members scrambled to find a replacement for Summers after his abrupt resignation last year, they passed over Hyman, whom many considered a natural candidate for the job, in favor of Derek C. Bok, who led Harvard from 1971 to 1991. The provost had a reputation for being overly talkative about sensitive topics, and some committee members had doubts about his ability to tackle large-scale projects, according...
Faust emerged as the clear inside favorite as early as October, two individuals close to the search process said, moving Kagan and Hyman out of the top tier. They were still given chances to speak to the committee throughout the search...
...opinions,” he wrote in a statement to The Crimson last week.Despite some skepticism, Bok said that 88 percent faculty across campus favored reform.LONG IN COMING Calendar reform has been a perennial issue at Harvard. In September 2003, then-University President Lawrence H. Summers, Provost Steven E. Hyman, and the University’s deans publicly supported a universal calendar for Harvard’s schools and announced the creation of Verba’s cross-school committee.Six months later, the committee published a report embracing a University-wide calendar with...