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Stephen M. Kosslyn, the Psychology department chair noted for his research on mental imagery and visual perception, will assume the divisional deanship for the social sciences in July, Faculty of the Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith announced yesterday...
...Kosslyn will take the post—which sits above a broad grouping of departments affiliated with the social sciences—at what Smith’s statement yesterday called a “pivotal moment” for FAS. Earlier this month, Smith announced extensions of the divisional deans’ responsibilities that included budgetary power to authorize searches for new faculty in the departments under in their division...
...confident that Professor Kosslyn has the energy to perform the duties of the position with true distinction, and that he will find a way to balance his new responsibilities with his ongoing plans for teaching and research,” Smith wrote in an e-mail. “He has already demonstrated this skill in his performance as department chair...
...Kosslyn has served as chair since 2005, and from 2006-2007 was the co-coordinator of the Caucus of Chairs, an informal body of department heads that became an influential player in FAS politics during the tenure of former University President Lawrence H. Summers...
...Kosslyn, who did not respond to requests for comment yesterday, joined FAS as an associate professor in 1977, and after brief stints at Brandeis University and Johns Hopkins University in the early eighties, he became part of the Faculty for good...