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Steven E. Hyman, the director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and a former Harvard Medical School professor, will be named the University’s new provost this afternoon, pending the approval of the Harvard Corporation...
University President Lawrence H. Summers has chosen Hyman to fill a vacancy left in Harvard’s top ranks after Harvey V. Fineberg ’67 stepped down as provost in June...
Hyman said that as provost he will encourage “thinking as a community about undergraduate education and how science is taught to all undergraduates, not just science majors...
Associate Provost Dennis F. Thompson is currently acting provost. Hyman said he hoped to assume his post as soon as six weeks from...
Since its creation by then-President Neil L. Rudenstine a decade ago, the position of provost has focused on encouraging cooperation between the University’s schools. Hyman said a major challenge for the University and the provost remains thinking about the ways that traditional disciplinary boundaries should be expanded to incorporate new types of knowledge...