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Dean of Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles announces the planning of a new science museum that would pull from the collections of four of Harvard science museums. The new museum, whose price tag could run in the hundreds of millions, would help to alleviate the space crunch throughout Harvard museums.
“Even when we are increasing the number of dollars [Dean of FAS] Jeremy [R. Knowles] can have, the [return on the] endowment is so strong that it drives the spending rate down,” Daniel says.
The Presidency of Harvard is relatively weak because the deans of Harvard’s various schools retain a great deal of control over their dominions. Harvard has had visionary presidents: In the late 19th century Charles W. Eliot, Class of 1853, made some controversial innovations that established the paradigm...
Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, in his annual letter to the faculty, said Harvard plans to reroute those easements—a costly, but not impossible move according to Massachusetts Turnpike Authority (MTA) Deputy Director of Real Estate Bill Tuttle.
Knowles and the Peabody Museum have been stumping for a new public museum in Allston that would free up space in the North Yard for FAS expansion, making popular exhibits like the glass flowers more accessible to tourists, and creating modern facilities to properly store the collections.