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...away at last a little over a week ago, eleven months after his 100th birthday. In France, his death has been marked by all the mourning one would expect for a national legend, with the president and foreign minister offering up grief-filled tributes to a “visionary?? and “humanist.” Here in the U.S., media reactions have been more muted: a faithful reflection of our general domestic indifference toward the intricacies of Gallic theory. (That the anthropologist shares his name with the most American of institutions, a denim manufacturer, lends...
...until the crisis demanded higher spending from Harvard’s endowment. For many, Harvard was being too conservative even in the boom years; now it is more fashionable to criticize the university for its profligacy. The Allston project, with its new science complex, for example, was hailed as visionary??until the financial crisis put it on hold. Even the Boston Globe editorial admits the complex “will transform Allston” when it can be built. Such decisions are easy to call foolish after the fact, but they were sensibly made given the information...
...from the confrontational, fast-moving style of her predecessor, Lawrence H. Summers, and rethinking the University’s outsized Allston plans—seems remarkably prescient. The University has not only struggled to make ends meet in an unprecedented fiscal crisis, but it has also reined in its visionary??and what some have criticized as financially irresponsible—plans to construct a new campus across the Charles. In November, Faust wrote that Harvard would weather the market turmoil by “staying true to our academic values and our long-term ambitions...
...Rudenstine, who was president of the University during the final years of Tosteson’s deanship. “I will personally miss him, and Harvard will certainly miss him.”Faculty and staff who worked with Tosteson praised him as a “visionary??—many of the changes he pushed for remain hallmarks of medical education over 20 years later.Tosteson is credited with modernizing teaching at Harvard and at universities around the world. Through the “New Pathway” program launched in 1985, he advocated...
...would be a “ten year job.”Venky and several SEAS faculty members said that Murray was a “fantastic” choice to take the reins for this transition because of her broad scientific and managerial experiences and “visionary?? outlook.“She has the achievements as a scientist herself, but also has the broad perspective of scientific issues both nationally and internationally,” said Evelyn Hu, a professor of applied physics and electrical engineering at SEAS.After receiving her undergraduate and doctoral degrees...