Harvard Biochemist Jeremy Knowles Named To Top Arts And Sciences Post

Harvard Biochemist Jeremy Knowles Named To Top Arts And Sciences Post Veteran Computer Systems Designer Mayo Takes Helm as Bell Labs seventh President John L. Zabriskie Robert Gall Thomas Waldman Jeremy R. Knowles, a British-born chemist who has been at Harvard University since 1974, has been appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In his new job, second in importance only to the presidency, Knowles oversees the finances, organization, and educational policies of Harvard Co

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Harvard Biochemist Jeremy Knowles Named To Top Arts And Sciences Post

Veteran Computer Systems Designer Mayo Takes Helm as Bell Labs seventh President

John L. Zabriskie

Robert Gall

Thomas Waldman

Jeremy R. Knowles, a British-born chemist who has been at Harvard University since 1974, has been appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. In his new job, second in importance only to the presidency, Knowles oversees the finances, organization, and educational policies of Harvard College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of Continuing Education.

Knowles was appointed by Harvard's new president, Neil Rudenstine, a professor of Renaissance literature. While some at Harvard see Knowles's appointment as an effort to emphasize the sciences at the school, Knowles disavows such parochialism.

"I don't think my intellectual background is going to change the focus of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences," says Knowles. "It has ...

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