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Harvard will announce a University-wide planning committee on bioengineering, which will likely culminate in the creation of a cross-school faculty committee, according to Provost Steven E. Hyman...
...Those political-correctniks who weren’t actually demanding censorship of Summers were predictably silent because it wasn’t one of theirs who was being censored. Nor do I remember (because it didn’t happen) the hard left at Columbia protesting when the University provost defended an anti-Israel professor who was caught by a camera throwing a rock at an Israeli guardhouse. Nor do I remember (because it didn’t happen) Professor Matory complaining when Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Barak was prevented from speaking at Concordia University...
...biggest difficulty,” said John P. Huchra, a Harvard cosmology professor who serves as senior adviser to the provost on research policy, “is that if this becomes a bandwagon in Washington, and other agencies are also forced to go with the same kinds of caps on administration and overhead expenses, then it will affect all the research we do that is sponsored by the government...
...every other Ivy League school besides the University of Pennsylvania, the College dean reports directly to the president or the provost, and issues are resolved without the filtering process that hinders the Harvard bureaucracy. It would make much more sense for the new dean of the College to deal directly with President Drew G. Faust to administer organizational policies, budget priorities, and undergraduate issues...
...Harvard’s top scholars on international law and human rights, will leave for Brown University this winter to become its new vice president of international affairs. Kennedy will lead Brown’s efforts to broaden its international involvement, Vincent J. Tompkins, Brown’s deputy provost, said yesterday. Kennedy will continue to hold a position at the Law School, with the title of visiting professor. He will take over the position at Brown on Jan. 1. “I think it’s exciting to go back to Brown where I studied and help...