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Berkowitz also claimed that the presence of Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson on the ad hoc committee compromised the procedure for several reasons. Among them were Thompson’s combination of several positions in the University’s central administration, as well as his marriage to former Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Carol J. Thompson, who was “administratively connected to my tenure review in a variety of potentially decisive ways...
...California philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad will bring together researchers across the two universities, in what founders described as an unprecedented collaboration. The new Broad Institute will grow out of Whitehead’s programs, under the leadership of Eric Lander, a faculty member at both MIT and Whitehead and a key player in the completed Human Genome Project...
...press conference Thursday, top officials from the universities and Whitehead said the new institute would bring a focus—and a new model of inquiry—to the first great scientific challenge of the 21st century...
Lander and others emphasized that the institute will be the first of its kind in terms of the scope of the collaborations it hopes to promote. Among its founding faculty are professors from MIT, Whitehead, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). It will bring together basic, applied and clinical scientists, with experts from fields including computational biology, chemistry and engineering...
...Broad Institute will be located near Whitehead and MIT in Cambridge’s Kendall Square neighborhood, an area seeded with biotechnology firms. The institute will have 15 associated faculty members when it is launched later this year. Lander will be appointed to the faculty of HMS at that time...