Word: provost
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...Russian metals mogul Viktor Vekselberg, and will cost around $1 million. Lowell’s bells arrived at Harvard from Russia nearly 80 years ago. The 18 bronze giants are over 100 years old, with one dating back to the 17th century. The Harvard delegation, comprised of Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91, project manager Peter Riley, and Lowell House tutor Luis A. Campos, returned from Russia last night...
...said he learned of the plan to empty the building of students last month. He said that Mass. Hall has been a good fit for students—who reside just feet away from the ornate offices of Harvard’s president and provost...
Dean of FAS Jeremy R. Knowles said the move to transfer Mass. Hall from the purview of FAS to the central administration came in response to the growing needs of the expanding offices of the president and provost after former President Neil L. Rudenstine reinstated the provost’s position...
...17th century—that have remained at Harvard for nearly 80 years. Lowell House will receive newly molded bells from the Vera Bell Foundry in Voronezh, Russia, which was hand-picked from five foundries that University representatives surveyed last August. The delegation—consisting of Associate Provost of Art and Culture Sean T. Buffington ’91, project manager Peter Riley, and Lowell House tutor Luis A. Campos—visited the foundry last week to inspect the casts for the replacement bells. The group also attended several ceremonies over the weekend and is expected to return...
...world, less expensive. The points also stipulated that universities strive to prevent agreements from stopping research at other not-for-profit institutions, “If these nine points are widely adopted, the academic scientific community, commercial world, and, most important, the public will benefit,” University Provost Steven E. Hyman said in an e-mailed statement. Technology transfers have come under fire for allegedly putting not-for-profit universities in the position of pursuing research for financial gain. The skeptics include Interim University President Derek C. Bok, who addressed the practice in his 2003 book...