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...about changing two key aspects of long-standing University policy. He asked if Summers had ever considered empowering a faculty other than FAS to grant Ph.D. degrees, or if he had considered separating the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) from FAS and having it report to the Provost rather than to the Dean of Faculty William C. Kirby...
Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers and University Provost Steven E. Hyman held up the funding until July 2004 because of concerns about the legal and liability issues associated with the African AIDS programs, funded by a $107 million federal grant...
...first science building will have the stem cell project, chemical biology and systems biology and some portion of engineering,” said University Provost Steven E. Hyman, who chaired the task force, yesterday...
...surprising, much of the impetus for the oversight came from the Joint Committee on Inspections, a monitoring board made up of members of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers, which had the initial concerns about the grant. Provost Steven E. Hyman said that the Committee “only gave permission to go forward if financial and administrative control and the authority to commit Harvard University to additional responsibilities were in the hands of someone with deep administrative experience in global development projects.” Such oversight is necessary given the risks of working in Third World countries...
Worried by the scope and size of the grant, University officials decided last summer to appoint an executive director—reporting directly to University President Lawrence H. Summers and Provost Steven E. Hyman—to oversee the administration of the PEPFAR grant...