Word: professors
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...Associate Professor of Government Peter Berkowitz's teaching career at Harvard ends, following President Neil L. Rudenstine's spring 1997 decision to deny him tenure. Berkowitz had filed a very public formal tenure complaint, accusing the University of failing to follow its own procedures when considering him for tenure. A grievance committee charged with reviewing Berkowitz's complaint found it to be "clearly without merit...
...Robert C. Merton, an expert in finance and Baker professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School, wins the Nobel Prize for Economics...
...Diana L. Eck, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, and her partner Dorothy A. Austin are selected as the new masters of Lowell House, filling the posts vacated by long-time masters William H. Bossert '55 and his wife Mary. Eck and Austin are the first same-sex couple to serve as masters of a Harvard house...
...Boston Globe reports that former Dean of the Divinity School Ronald F. Thiemann's abrupt resignation last fall was prompted by discovery of pornographic material on his University-owned computer. Thiemann remains a tenured professor but is on sabbatical until...
...April 2000 2 - Drew Gilpin Faust of the University of Pennsylvania is named as the first permanent dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, starting January 1, 2001. Faust was the Annenberg Professor of History at Penn and had served as director of the Women's Studies program since...