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...sciences have a real responsibility to make sure that the enlightened citizenry can understand what science is about,” he said, emphasizing that Harvard’s science faculty should take care to speak to non-science people to “increas[e] their confidence that they can and should gain an understanding of what’s happening in the sciences...
Search committee members and many candidates, including Faust, declined to comment for this article, and those close to the process who were willing to speak were granted anonymity in order to preserve their relations with University administrators and the candidates...
...committee started with a list of 750 names. Over the summer, committee members were dispatched all over the country to speak with alumni while hundreds of letters of advice poured in to Loeb House, the headquarters of the search. For the first time in recent memory, faculty and student committees advised the search, a move aimed at placating critics of the closed-doors process that had produced Summers’ selection six years earlier...
Faust emerged as the clear inside favorite as early as October, two individuals close to the search process said, moving Kagan and Hyman out of the top tier. They were still given chances to speak to the committee throughout the search...
Convincing academic leaders outside Harvard to agree to speak with the committee proved nearly impossible. Throughout much of the fall, the search committee deliberately ignored the “no thank you’s” leading candidates had given the press...