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Chemisty colleague George M. Whitesides recalled making the decision to move from MIT to Harvard in 1982 after finding a bucket of roses and a bottle of champagne—a wry gift from Knowles—at his home one morning...
...Since receiving their Ph.D.s from MIT in 1985, the Romers’ careers have followed similar trajectories—both became ladder faculty at Berkeley in 1988 and won tenure five years later...
...They have made their careers on the west coast, but both have had lingering ties to Cambridge. According to DeLong, MIT offered a position to Christina Romer but not her husband in the early 1990s. And under former University President Neil L. Rudenstine, the couple passed both the ad hoc and approval from Mass. Hall, but ultimately chose to stay in California, Delong said...
...According to David L. Warsh ’66, a former economics correspondent for The Boston Globe, now would have been an ideal time for Harvard to make an offer to the Romers because two of their three children will be at MIT in the fall and each has an elderly parent in Massachusetts...
University President Drew G. Faust joined MIT President Susan Hockfield, a biologist, and University of Massachusetts President Jack M. Wilson, a physicist, in co-authoring a letter to the legislature last month that underscored the need for funding to remain flexible as research develops...