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...want to make sure that these add-ons don’t actually take resources away from the core mission of the schools,” said University Provost Steven E. Hyman...
...priorities will be determined by the deans of those schools in consultation with the president and provost...
According to University officials, when then-Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 broached the topic of expanding class credit in the 1990s, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the other wealthier schools resisted...
...opening remarks to the hundreds of young and well-dressed scientists and others who gathered for the series of presentations and panel discussions, Provost Steven E. Hyman sensed the reluctance of some academics to bringing capitalism any closer to the campus. “It’s important as a university to discuss ethics,” Hyman said in his short speech. However, he said the University had rules about handing discoveries made at Harvard over to private companies. “Within the constraints of those guidelines, President Summers and I think it’s very...
...provost is stressing the good to society that could come from developing and marketing Harvard technologies. The question is, what has changed? Well, Larry has. Summers has made it clear that he foresees Boston as part of a “Silicon Valley” for biotechnology. Harvard has a critical role to play in fostering this regional renaissance. In his first year in office, Summers has stumped tirelessly for increased attention to research in the biological sciences. He has promised that he would announce a substantial initiative in this area in a “year...