Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Vest's resume, others confirm, contains a fairly impressive list of accomplishments. When Vest takes over the helm at MIT, he ends a two year stint as provost of the University of Michigan. Prior to that he was Michigan's dean of engineering from...
...were writing a job description, that's what you'd write," Robert Solow says of Vest's resume. Solow chaired a faculty search committee to replace outgoing president Paul Gray...
...Vest, who takes over after MIT biologist Philip Sharp declined the post this spring, is no novice at such monumental tasks. At Michigan, he was part of a team which over-hauled the school's engineering curriculum...
Although engineering reform is an important concern, it is only one of only a handful of issues that Vest must tackle. For example, MIT, which receives substantial funding from the Defense Department, expects to be hurt by imminent cuts in the nation's military budget...
...Vest is also expected to uphold MIT's role in the revitalization of America's lagging manufacturing sector. "We felt that anybody who had spent most of his adult life in the state of Michigan would understand that issue," Solow says...