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...Sciences (FAS) Michael D. Smith formally announced the appointment of science historian Allan M. Brandt as dean of the University’s largest graduate school, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).The appointment ends an eight-month search that began when current GSAS Dean Theda R. Skocpol abruptly resigned from the post last March.Brandt, a history of science professor who also holds an appointment at the Harvard Medical School (HMS), will make the move into University Hall to take his new post on Jan. 1.In his announcement, Smith praised Brandt’s administrative experience and abilities...
...Brandt said, declining to comment further. Brandt enters an office that has a rocky recent history. In February 2005, anthropologist Peter T. Ellison resigned from the post, protesting what he saw as dishonest behavior by former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers. This past spring, outgoing dean Theda R. Skocpol abruptly resigned from the position as well after her candidacy for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences deanship appeared to falter. The Crimson yesterday obtained a draft of Brandt’s acceptance message. “I am enormously honored to assume the leadership of the Graduate School of Arts...
...colleagues. “Please do forgive my being overdressed,” he said, “I do not mean to make you feel underdressed, but I am going out with the wife afterwards. There is life after the Faculty meeting.” CURTAIN CALL FOR SKOCPOL Yesterday may have marked the final meeting for Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Theda R. Skocpol at the head table, with science historian Allan M. Brandt set to take her place. “I’m very thankful to all of you for the wonderful chance...
According to Skocpol, the boost of funds to the sciences was necessary to allow FAS and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences to increase the size of the incoming Ph.D. classes...
...can’t build the sciences, we can’t build a whole new campus in Allston, we can’t create new areas of research, without graduate students,” Skocpol said...