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...group charged with finding Harvard’s next president is preparing to begin final-round interviews, with Stanford Provost John W. Etchemendy, Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gilpin Faust, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan, and University of Cambridge chief Alison F. Richard among the names being most seriously considered by the committee, according to two individuals familiar with the group's activities...
...Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Steven Chu, a 1997 Nobel laureate in physics at Stanford who directs the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; biologist Eric S. Lander, director of the Harvard-MIT Broad Institute; and chemist Mark S. Wrighton, chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis and a former MIT provost...
...recent days, members of the search committee have swooped in and out of Cambridge, hosting informal chats with Kagan, Faust, and another named candidate, University Provost Steven E. Hyman, two of the sources said...
Hyman, 54, who was deputy to ousted Harvard president Lawrence H. Summers and continues to serve as provost under Interim President Derek C. Bok, is not seen as a likely choice by some members of the committee, according to one of the sources...
Other presidential contenders that the committee has considered include Columbia President Lee C. Bollinger; former Harvard Provost Harvey V. Fineberg ’67, now president of the Institute of Medicine; University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71; Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons; and Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman. Two sources said that those candidates are no longer in serious contention. But the committee may not yet have ruled out Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow, one of the sources said...