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...little institute on Garden Street sat by the wall and listened. She took notes on a legal pad in an overflowing leather binder. Occasionally she checked her e-mail on a large, vintage BlackBerry with a green monochrome screen. The dean of Radcliffe, Drew Gilpin Faust, was a quiet observer at the sometimes-contentious Oct. 10 town hall meeting held by a University-wide science planning committee. At the meeting, a handful of Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) professors pushed back against the committee’s proposal to centralize some science teaching and research across the University. Faust...
Seemingly content to live in the shadow of Memorial Church for most of its life, the inauspicious Sever Hall finally got its close-up after over a century of quiet existence on the edge of the Yard...
...second half. Reserve forward Brennan Votel had a career-high 11 points, while Grandieri and center Steve Danley each had 10. Captain guard Jim Goffredo led Harvard with 14 points, but shot only 5-of-19 from the floor. His backcourt mate, sophomore Drew Housman, had a relatively quiet night with just nine points, compared to his career-high 33-point outburst the night before at Princeton. But Housman made his mark on the defensive end, holding reigning Ivy League Player of the Year Ibrahim Jaaber to nine points on 3-of-7 shooting. All three of Jaaber?...
...location, and Faust’s cell phone was turned off throughout the evening. Her daughter, Jessica Rosenberg, also had her cell phone off and could not be reached at the New Yorker, where she works. Individuals connected to the University and the search process stayed quiet as well. Several members of the Board of Overseers contacted by phone refused to comment, as did the University’s official spokesman. Two of the other presidential search finalists—Provost Steven E. Hyman and Law School Dean Elena Kagan—kept a low profile. Hyman, whose Mass. Hall...
...picked new leaders. With Richard’s appointment at Cambridge in 2003 and Brodhead’s appointment at Duke the same year, seven highly touted higher education leaders have become ensconced in elite institutions elsewhere.In this storm of events, a low-profile dean was launched from a quiet research institution to academia’s loudest stage.—Staff writer Samuel P. Jacobs can be reached at jacobs@fas.harvard.edu...