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July-August 2007
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BreviaRadcliffe Institute Interim Dean
Rose Lincoln / Harvard News Office Barbara J. Grosz Higgins professor of natural sciences Barbara J. Grosz, a computer scientist, has been named interim dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She succeeds Drew Gilpin Faust, who became president of Harvard effective July 1. Grosz has been deeply involved in the Radcliffe Institute since September 2001, when she became dean of science—recruiting fellows from scientific disciplines, arranging for them to continue laboratory work as necessary, and building relationships with researchers throughout Harvard. Mass Hall Moves
Massachusetts Hall, home both to Harvard's president during working hours and, on its upper floors, dorm rooms for 18 to 24 freshmen, was sold by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to the University?s central administration a year ago. The sale had long been rumored; the president?s immediate staff is shoehorned into the office space, and the provost's and vice presidents? staffs are housed in Holyoke Center. It is unknown whether the upper-floor space will be renovated into offices, as was planned a couple of years ago; for now, according to Harvard College dean Benedict H. Gross, the plan is to use the student rooms for upperclassmen or for temporary residential swing space. The days of housing the president below freshmen, however, are apparently over. Science across the SchoolsThe Corporation has approved creating a new department of developmental and regenerative biology, the first academic department based in more than one of the University’s schools. The venture, joining personnel from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS), is the initial result of the University’s interdisciplinary science-planning efforts (see “For Science and Engineering, New Life,” March-April, page 65). The new department (an institutional home for the Harvard Stem Cell Institute, with the power to make faculty appointments and with teaching responsibilities) is co-chaired by Cabot professor of the natural sciences Douglas Melton and Jordan professor of medicine David Scadden. It is expected to be based in the first new Harvard science building in Allston. Separately, President Derek Bok appointed the members of the Harvard University Science and Engineering Committee, the oversight and administrative body endorsed and funded by the Corporation in January; it is chaired by Provost Steven E. Hyman and includes the deans of FAS, HMS, and the schools of public health and of engineering and applied sciences; the Radcliffe Institute’s dean of science; several faculty members; and representatives from five Harvard-affiliated hospitals and medical research centers. Neurobiologist Kathleen Buckley, associate provost for science, assumes added responsibility as director of academic affairs for interdisciplinary science. Finan-cial manager Russ Porter, who had been executive director of FAS’s life-sciences division, becomes associate provost and director of administration for the interdis-ciplinary initiatives. Private-Public Partnership
Justin Ide / Harvard News Office Douglas Melton 
Justin Ide / Harvard News Office David Scadden 
Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Kathleen Buckley 
Stephanie Mitchell / Harvard News Office Russ Porter Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government have created an integrated three-year master’s-degree program. Students will earn a master of business administration/master of public policy (M.B.A./M.P.P.) degree or an M.B.A./master in public administration-international development (M.P.A.-I.D.) degree. Applicants for the program, which will enroll students in the fall of 2008, must be admitted to both schools. They will complete each school’s required core curriculum during their initial two years of study, and then assemble a third year from electives plus two new integrative courses focusing on business-government collaboration. The initiative succeeds a program under which students could earn separate degrees concurrently from the two schools. Global Health s Gates ConnectionChristopher Murray, founding director of the Harvard Initiative for Global Health (see “Global Health Aims HIGH,” January-February 2005, page 61), has decamped for the University of Washington. Murray, former Saltonstall professor of population policy and professor of social medicine, had hoped his research—which is focused on the efficacy of health programs—would be funded by an anticipated gift of $100 million or more from Oracle Corporation chief executive Lawrence J. Ellison. Those funds were not forthcoming. Now a $105-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—the principal philanthropic funding source for global-health programs—will help create the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, which Murray will direct. Summers s SettlementThe University disclosed in its annual filing as a tax-exempt organization that as part of his settlement upon resignation as president last year, Lawrence H. Summers, now Eliot University Professor, received a 20-year, $1-million loan toward the purchase of his new home in Brookline. The loan requires no payments until August 2010, payments of interest only from then until August 2014, and then of principal and interest. He also received a one-year paid sabbatical, “future salary supplements totalling less than one year’s salary” when he resigned, and reimbursement for legal, moving, and miscellaneous expenses. 1 | 2 | continued >  
 
 
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