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Knowles said he was unaware he was being considered as a potential HHMI trustee.
The other eight trustees--who include former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, former University of Chicago president and current Harvard Fellow Hanna H. Gray, and former Du Pont CEO Irving S. Shapiro--discussed the appointment of a ninth trustee and formally elected Knowles last week.
Jeremy R. Knowles, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been elected one of the nine trustees of the Maryland-based Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the second-largest philanthropy in the United States.
Knowles will replace George W. Thorn, a professor emeritus at Harvard Medical School, who played a defining role in the development of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and served at different times as the medical research organization's president, director of research and chairman of trustees.
"We should honor Radcliffe for opening Harvard to women," Knowles said.