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...transition donors typically don’t think it’s the right moment to announce a very large commitment. As a result, some gift discussions that have been under way will likely require more time as a result of the leadership transition.” Harvard Provost Steven E. Hyman, who has been criss-crossing the country fundraising on behalf of the University, echoes Rapier’s suggestion that leadership transitions are off-putting to donors.“If you’re going to make a very large gift, you actually do want to know...
...team of researchers in an attempt to use a process called Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT) to create disease- and patient-specific stem cell lines from cloned embryos.The research was approved after more than two years of intensive ethical and scientific review by eight separate boards, said University Provost Steven E. Hyman at a press conference yesterday.If successful, the research will represent one of the most significant advances in the field. While preliminary SCNT work has been done at the University of California-San Francisco and by Advanced Cell Technology, a private biotechnology company, Daley said at the conference...
With Summers now set to resign at the end of the academic year, the Corporation scrambled to find somebody who could temporarily fill the University’s top spot. The top three contenders for the position were Keohane, an experienced University administrator, Provost Steven E. Hyman, Summers’ deputy, and Derek C. Bok, a former Harvard president who led the University from 1971 to 1991. Keohane promptly removed herself from consideration, according to the source close to the Corporation, and the fellows thought Hyman was too closely associated with Summers to be a viable replacement...
Hyman, who often clashed with Summers in private but supported him in public, did not return requests for comment on the matter. But two sources who have spoken with the provost say that he had—and still has—presidential ambitions. And in conversations with Corporation members prior to the resignation, Hyman was forthright about his sometimes-rocky relationship with the president, according to one of the sources...
...Allston planner, Kathy A. Spiegelman, who began work as the vice president of Harvard Planning and Real Estate in 1995. “He definitely exercised an influence and made a commitment and as we move forward that influence will definitely persist and be felt.”Deputy Provost for Administration Eric Buehrens, who now meets weekly with University Provost Steven E. Hyman, Bok, and Christopher M. Gordon, the chief operating officer of the Allston development group, says that Summers’ vision will be carried ahead, even as he vacates office.“I think there...