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Brett C. Sweet, dean of administration and finance for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will leave Harvard in late July to assume the role of Vice Chancellor and Chief Financial Officer at Vanderbilt University, FAS Dean Michael D. Smith announced Thursday morning...
Though Smith has not been privy to all of the details surrounding Sweet’s determination to leave, Smith said he believes that the Vanderbilt position constitutes a “wonderful opportunity” and “a step up.” Smith said he does not know if there were any other institutions besides Vanderbilt that Sweet had been considering as a future home...
Sweet could not be reached for comment Thursday, but in a Vanderbilt press release, he said he was attracted to the "number of exciting strategic endeavors that many universities only talk about doing" and Vanderbilt's reputation for collaboration between faculty and staff...
...Universities struggle with this," Sweet said in the release. "Vanderbilt has cracked the code in this area, which is evidenced by the shared sense of vision and support by faculty, students and staff...
...What all these risk gene studies show us is that genes do an important job in loading the gun," says Joshua Buckholtz, a neuroscience Ph.D. candidate at Vanderbilt University's Brain Institute and Department of Psychology, who has written extensively about MAO-A gene. "But it's the environment that pulls the trigger...