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...recommendation to the Board of Overseers, the less powerful alumni body. The recommendation is then put to a vote among the 30 overseers. Three overseers serve on the search committee with the six Corporation fellows. Yesterday’s meeting came just days after Thomas R. Cech, a Nobel laureate in chemistry and president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, announced that he had withdrawn his name from consideration for the Harvard presidency. Prior to his surprise withdrawal, Cech was considered a leading candidate for the post by the committee. With the announcement, Cech joined several other potentially serious presidential...
Today’s meeting comes just days after Thomas R. Cech, a Nobel laureate in chemistry and president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, announced that he had withdrawn his name from consideration for the Harvard presidency. Prior to his surprise withdrawal, Cech was considered a leading candidate for the post by the committee...
...finally came out on Sunday, as the photo opposite proves). Plus, there's now celeb spotting, even if it is of a peculiarly Davos kind - by which I mean that nobody misses Sharon Stone or Brangelina, but delegates get quite excited if a session has not one but two Nobel economics laureates in the audience. What was that theme again? Who knows: let's catch another panel on the implications of climate change for business...
Cech, a 1989 Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, has served as the head of Howard Hughes—the nation’s second-richest philanthropic organization—for the past seven years. He is also a longtime faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he maintains an active lab. He said that those two commitments weighed heavily in his decision to withdraw his name...
...Cech, a Nobel laureate in chemistry, has served as the head of Howard Hughes—the nation's second richest philanthropic organization—for the past seven years. He is also a faculty member at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He said that those two commitments weighed on his decision to withdraw his name...