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The Faculty of Arts and Sciences' top priority this year will be to increase the number of junior and senior professors, Dean Jeremy R. Knowles said yesterday.
Speaking in University Hall on the release of his annual letter to the full Faculty, Knowles said he wants to lower the Faculty's student-teacher ratio while keeping constant the size of the student body. He also announced that the Faculty spent about $513 million last year, nearly $25...
Here in Cambridge, Harvard is also in the midst of a $200 million project to upgrade science facilities. Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles last spring earmarked some of those funds for a new center in genomics and proteomics and a center for imaging and mesoscale Structures--areas considered...
In fact, the two centers that opened during Knowles's tenure as dean have created an active connection with undergraduate and graduate students that the older centers have yet to achieve.
Knowles also points out that other disciplines pool their knowledge to study specific topics in-depth as well. In the social sciences, he says, such an interdisciplinary approach may translate into a geographical breakdown.