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Lizabeth Cohen, chair of the history department, said the administration allowed her unit to continue a search for an endowed professorship for Latin American history because “they would not cost FAS money...
Harvard Law School announced Wednesday that it has received an anonymous donation of $10 million in honor of Professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62, to fund research and a faculty chair in his name. The donation will finance an endowed professorship and support teaching and research activities, conferences, and fellowships in constitutional law. Steven Oliveira, the law school’s dean for development and alumni relations, declined to comment on what connection the benefactor had with Tribe or the Law School, saying only that the donor “is obviously someone who is an admirer...
According to HCGHAC member Heidi E. Kim ’09, the widespread student support for Dr. Kim is both a result of his Harvard professorship and his extensive experience working in global health...
Acclaimed cyberlaw expert Lawrence Lessig will return to Cambridge next summer, extending Harvard Law School’s recent streak of poaching top-flight professors from rival schools. Lessig will re-assume a professorship at the Law School after nine years at Stanford, where he said he moved in 2000 to be closer to his wife, a native of California. In addition to being a law professor, Lessig will direct the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. Calling Lessig “one of the most brilliant and important legal scholars of our time,” Law School...
...Obama filled the last of the four top economic positions Monday, announcing that his Council of Economic Advisers will be chaired by University of California at Berkeley economist Christina D. Romer, who was a subject of national indignation earlier this year when Harvard did not offer her a tenured professorship. Economists, including Harvard professor N. Gregory Mankiw, a former CEA chief under President Bush, have hailed Obama’s pick as an “excellent choice.” Though the role of the CEA has been diminished since former President Clinton created the National Economic Council...